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18 March 2019

Not Forgotten - Keith Bryen

From a poultry farm on the western fringe of Sydney to riding the Moto Guzzi 500 V8

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17 March 2019

Original adventurers

January can easily become summer’s dead zone of boredom. When it’s too hot to ride what’s to do? Even television is a dead zone, largely inhabited by series repeats and cricket defeats, unless you like spending hours watching millionaires fire tiny balls at each other acros

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12 March 2019

Grid Talk - Leon Haslam

What’s it like riding a World Superbike after racing a domestic-spec Kawasaki ZX-10R? The 2018 British Superbike champion, Leon Haslam explains

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11 March 2019

GREGORY THE GREAT - Gregg Hansford

It wasn’t what the late Gregg Hansford did in his short time on the GP circuit that made him such an enigma, but rather what he didn’t do

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05 March 2019

Where are they now? Glen Dix – it’s not over until the flagman dances

Glen Dix’s involvement with motorsport began in the early ’50s – a time when Rowley Park Speedway broadcast live to air on radio. His job as penciller – recording results – in the broadcast box was as boring as batshit for an enthusiastic teenager craving excitement. A

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02 March 2019

Andy & Alissa and their XT660R

Riding Tajikistan’s legendary Pamir Mountains was supposed to be the ride of their lives. But trying to get out with a snapped frame and no suspension wasn’t what they had in mind

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27 February 2019

Revolving racer - Alex Phillis

Alex Phillis: I’m really looking forward to the Island Classic’s four International Challenge races. It will be an enjoyable way to start what is shaping up as a big year of racing for me. Team New Zealand really do have the attitude of ‘let’s just have fun,’ so althoug

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27 February 2019

Reader Rides

Here is a pic of me washing my first bike when I was just 17, crazy how you could ride big bikes when you first got your licence back then, I’m not 63 years old.  Barry Waugh I lost my right arm in accident 23 years ago but decided to get back in the saddle, could say i

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26 February 2019

Grid Talk - Jordi Viladoms & Toby Price

As the Dakar teams line up in Lima, KTM’s Sport Manager has a fistful of aces

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13 February 2019

Not forgotten - Brian Payne

Bend it like Brian, he was motorcycling’s maestro of metallurgy

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09 February 2019

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

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08 February 2019

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.