FOUR UP! 1928 BÖHMERLAND SIDECAR

Some motorcycles look like style icons. Some motorcycles look like they’re doing 100 kays an hour when they’re standing still. But the Böhmerland just looks like a barrel of…

DAMN, THE TORPEDO

IN THE MOVIE Jurassic Park, a billionaire with a passion for dinosaurs employs a team of genetic scientists to create a wildlife park on a tropical island and…

AMERICAN HOT ROD

It was the mid-1980s and things were looking up for Harley-Davidson. It was finally relieved from the grip of AMF ownership and enjoying huge success with its new range…

RARE MOTORCYCLES GO UNDER THE HAMMER AT SHANNONS

Shannons has a fabulous array of classic race, on and off-road motorcycles, on offer at its November 18 Sydney Spring Auction. Dating from circa 1943 to 1989, the 11 motorcycles…

CLASS BLOWER

KAWASAKI KR-1S v SUZUKI RGV250

TD1: Yamaha’s first boy racer

In the annals of advertising history there exists a famous old print ad, usually the domain of long defunct journals like People, Australasian Post and other pot boilers. The headline…

CRITICAL MASS: HONDA CB750

Kake rareta! Or, if you prefer the English translation, gobsmacked! That was the universal reaction as thousands of Japanese punters filed into the 1968 Tokyo Motorcycle Show, the centrepiece of…

Troy Corser’s Suzuki RGV250

His story has taught us many lessons. Our scientists are able to explain away just about every event that has ever happened. Two planets colliding creating life, hydrogen combining…

Triumph Speed Triple Timeline

1994 Introduction of the first Speed Triple hooligan, the T309. Powered by an 885cc version of Triumph’s then newly released big-bore triple, it sported a single headlight…

Nozem Amsterdam BMW R107R R 80

If the original design team at BMW knew their sandals-with-socks tourers would get turned into bikes like this, they’d have choked on their strudel. Despite…

The 200kmh postie

The easy bit was acquiring a former postie bike in the mid-noughties for $400 – a price that reflected the condition of the clapped-out four-year-old Honda CT110 that arrived…