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Living with the Royal Enfield Himalayan
“It’s the same formula but they’re two totally different bikes, eh?” offered my riding mate Andy as we gulped down water after a particularly difficult section of cricket ball-sized rocks. He was on his kitted-out Suzuki DR-Z400 and I was on a Royal Enfield Himalayan. And
Not forgotten - Brian Payne
Bend it like Brian, he was motorcycling’s maestro of metallurgy
How they do stuff - Navigating Dakar
The first thing to learn is that the quickest way from A to B is via X, Y and Z
In Pit Lane - Get your GOAT
Trees are tall. But they do not touch the sky. I offer this cod philosophy to help keep things in proportion. When you are up too close to something, it is easy to over-inflate its importance. With a few weeks to look back on the MotoGP season, it still inspires awe. But what
Reader Rides
It doesn’t matter if it was a free-to-a- good-home paddock basher you pulled from the neighbour’s shed, or a shiny new showroom model you saved your hard- earned cash for, no one forgets their first.
Where are they now? Richard Reid
Richard Reid – the bloke to win Kawasaki’s first road race
It’s not bye bye HayaBusa
Aussie sales continue while a new model gets developed
Old school - Parallel universe
An Outback thunderstorm slowly rolled towards me as I sat on the ancient timbers of a cattle yard at Coward Springs railway siding. The Oodnadatta track was about a kilometre away. If just 1mm of rain fell it would turn the packed dirt surface into a dangerously slippery ice rink
Fast Talk - Midori Moriwaki
Fed-up with lacklustre results, the 2019 WorldSBK season will see something very close to a full-factory effort from Honda. We nab a rare interview with the woman behind the assault
He did what? - A well-timed accident
Aussie pioneer Tim Gibbes’s ploy foils the ISDT timekeepers
Revolving racer - Ted Collins
Ted Collins: I’ve ended my first season in the premier class of Australian road racing as Rookie of the Year. What a roller-coaster rider it was. We started the ASBK season off at Phillip Island qualifying in 23rd place and turned it all around by finishing the last race of the
MotoGP Tough 10, for all 10
One of my year-end pleasures is putting the mighty 320-page Motocourse tome to print. And one of the pleasures of editing it for the past 15 years or so is the chance to nominate the editor’s Top 10. This is both easy, and difficult. Easy because it is a whimsical and often