Your favourite Forever Bikes articles from 2018

Throughout 2018 we’ve continued to celebrate the owners who have kept the same motorcycle for 30 years or more. They’ve shared their stories about the memories, the rebuilds and the joys of owning a classic bike for so long on our Bikesure Forever Bikes blog. Here’s the five most read articles of 2018 – and […]

Liking and subscribing: the Bikesure guide to motovlogging

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Back in pre-internet days opportunities to listen to people talking about motorcycles was limited but  nowadays you only need log on to enter the word of motovlogging. Why motovlogging? What motivates people to watch videos of people driving their bikes? There’s a number of possible reasons; firstly, and the thing that makes people come back […]

Zapp electric scooter – new commuter bike ‘torque of the town’

Zapp electric scooter

A British start-up company based at Hethel in Norfolk, the home of Lotus, has thrown its skid-lid into the ring with a brand new commuter ride, the Zapp electric scooter. Pitched squarely at biking commuters, Zapp Chief Executive Swin Chatsuwan says there is simply nothing else available like it on the market. He said: “With […]

Celebrating Britain’s trailblazing women motorcyclists

Trailblazing women motorcyclists

Updated September 16, 2020 Bikesure celebrates some of Britain’s trailblazing women motorcyclists and world champions who have made history on two wheels. Marjorie Cottle   Born in 1900, Marjorie was one of the UK’s first female professional racers and leads the way in our list of Britain’s most brilliant trailblazing women motorcyclists. By 1924 she’d […]

Kawasaki teams up with Bikesure to launch exclusive new insurance scheme

Kawasaki, one of the world’s foremost manufacturers of motorcycles, has joined forces with specialist insurance broker Bikesure to launch an exclusively branded bike insurance scheme. Bikesure, part of the Adrian Flux group, won a full tender process to administer the Kawasaki Insurance policy range to cater for old and new models produced by the classic […]

Motorcycles of World War 1

November 11 2018 is the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War. It was the first “modern” war, with mechanisation enabling destruction and death on scales hitherto unimaginable. Bikesure, the insurance brokers, takes a look back at how motorcycles were used in WWI. The start of the 20th century saw the British Empire […]

The funky world of factory customs

Custom bikes, we love ‘em. Nothing like making your form of transport entirely your own, standing out from the crowd. But honestly, in our ultrafast modern world, who has time to sink hours into making their bike perfect? Well, luckily some manufacturers know the struggle is real, and are happy to make their own custom […]

Iconic Italian Vespa scooter goes all electric

Vespa scooter

The iconic Italian Piaggio Vespa scooter company will go green and all electric when it launches the Vespa Elettrica in Milan in November 2018. The new Vespa – which means wasp in Italian – has evolved from the single model motor scooter first manufactured by Piaggio in 1946. Vespas are famed for their painted, pressed […]

What makes an ultimate motorcycle collection?

ultimate motorcycle collection

It’s an age old question motorcyclists have been asking each other for decades. What makes the ultimate motorcycle collection? Is it a blend of new high-performance bikes mixed with stunning classics? Or is it made purely of the most expensive motorbikes on the planet? Either way it is of course completely subjective. One thing isn’t […]

Tickets now on sale for Motorcycle Live 2018 at Birmingham NEC

Motorcycle Live 2018

Triumph, Suzuki, Moto Guzzi, BMW, Norton, Piaggio, Royal Enfield, Harley-Davidson, Yamaha, Aprilia, Indian… it reads like a Who’s Who from the world of biking but it is in fact the superstar supporting cast of manufacturers attending the Bikesure-backed Motorcycle Live 2018 at the NEC in Birmingham from November 17-25. Image source: Adobe Stock Motorcycle Live […]