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Pre-2000

YAMAHA RD350LC

The two-stroke twin seemed to run better in cold air. So at dusk, my friend and mechanic, Graeme Rogers, and I would sneak out to a long…
Pre-2000

DREAM CATCHER - BMW R75/5

This is the bike of my teenage dreams and that’s the only excuse I’ve got for acting as impulsively as a 16-year-old. I zip up my jacket and…
Pre-2000

CAGIVA ELEFANT IN THE ROOM!

Edi Orioli’s January 1990 Paris-Dakar win on the Lucky Explorer Cagiva Elefant 900ie began a huge 12 months for Ducati and its owner Cagiva. By…
Pre-2000

VINCENT BLACK LIGHTNING

Phil Irving was adamant: “V-twins: the only practical alternative to the single,” he wrote as the heading of one of the popular columns he wrote in the…
Pre-2000

HERON RIZLA SUZUKI RG500 XR70RV

It’s not unusual for a motorcyclist to want to track down the first bike they ever owned. It’s not even unusual for a Grand Prix racer to…
Pre-2000

TRIUMPH'S OFF-ROAD HISTORY

Looking back at Triumph’s history, building expertise in all-terrain motorcycles is nothing new and can be dated all the way back to the early days of the company.
Pre-2000

1955 WOOLER FLAT FOUR 500

Brits are pretty good at inventing things, but much less good at commercialising them. From penicillin through to the internet, there are literally hundreds of British inventions which either…
Pre-2000

DB CUSTOMS HONDA VFR750F INTERCEPTOR MERKEL REPLICA

In late 2016, DB Customs’ Darren Begg received a request he simply couldn’t refuse. A message landed in his inbox from American AMA fanatic Michael Peterson asking if Darren could…
Pre-2000

THE FIRST YAMAHA: 1955 YAMAHA YA-1 RED DRAGONFLY

1955 gave us the very first Yamaha Motorcycle: The Yamaha YA-1 Red Dragonfly Wars drive advances in technology. By the end of WWII, guns fired more bullets in…
Pre-2000

SPECIAL K: 1981 SUZUKI KATANA GSX1100 SXZ

It was six months into the restoration of a 1981 Suzuki Katana 1100 when owner Scott Lee and restorer Dave Marett realised they needed to make a…
Pre-2000

HOW THEY ROLLED: 1996 AUSTRALIAN SAFARI IN AN OUTFIT

Words Peter Whitaker Photography Ric Williams/Bushdriver Magazine Ayers House, Adelaide’s upmarket exhibition venue, was packed. Top European motorsport correspondents mingled with the local press for the media launch of the…
Pre-2000

FACTORY OUTLET: HAILWOOD'S HONDA RC181

Mike Hailwood is widely known as one of the top five grand prix racers of all time. He is also widely known as being capable of riding…