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23 November 2018

Revolving Racer - David Johnson

It’s been a great year for me. It started with two race wins and the overall points score at the Phillip Island International Challenge (Davo’s result gave Team Australia their first win in four years) in January. Then the absolute highlight was giving BMW a world first podiu

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21 November 2018

Not forgotten - Vic Willoughby

From footy player to acclaimed author, and a bike racer in between

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17 November 2018

Where are they now? Lindsay Urquhart

“I built the first small-wheeled outfit in Australia – and probably the world”

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11 November 2018

Revolving Racer - Troy Bayliss

As Appeared in AMCN magazine Vol 68 No 07 I’m really looking forward to the ASBK final at Phillip Island. The racing’s gone to another level this season in all classes with many lap records broken and I’m sure that will continue at the Island. The season started well fo

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10 November 2018

WORLD’S FIRST CORPORATE ADVENTURE

Two 1950s thrill seekers went on the world’s first corporate-sponsored global adventure

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10 November 2018

Money money money

MY LAST COLUMN about the 1980s got a few people talking about that decade. But here’s something they don’t want to talk about: what it cost to live back then. It’s hard to explain to someone who wasn’t there exactly what it was like living with home mortgage rates as hig

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09 November 2018

The Vale Circuit - Pre-Panorama Bathurst

Fancy a ride around the fabulous road circuit that hosted the Australian Grand Prix and the Australian TT in the 1930s? It’s still there, and less than three hours from Sydney

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04 November 2018

2018 Isle of Man Festival of Motorcycling

If you’ve seen the 1935 British musical comedy No Limit, you’ll understand the atmosphere of the annual Isle of Man Festival of Motorcycling. George Shuttleworth, played by comic songwriter George Formby, builds himself an AJS racer in his garden shed for his assault on the

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31 October 2018

Where are they now? Dallas Rankine – Kiwi Ducati supertuner

At the dawn of World Superbikes 30 years ago, Kiwi Ducati fanatic Dallas Rankine was tearing his hair out. “I bought the first available 851 Superbike in association with Aussie Bob Brown for Robert Holden to race in WSBK,” he remembers. Ducati soul brothers obsessed with th

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24 October 2018

Revolving Racer - Adam Senior

The other day someone told me that by the end of this season I will have clocked up 700,000km in travel while racing in ASBK. It’s only about 380,000km from Earth to the Moon! I first competed in 2006 but since 2012 I have raced every single round in the Superbike class, excep

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23 October 2018

MOTO GP STARS FAVOURITE PARTS OF THE PHILLIP ISLAND GRAND PRIX CIRCUIT

The much-anticipated Michelin Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix 2018 is just around the corner, and the world’s best riders are reminiscing on their favourite parts of the Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit. Exhilarating racing, coupled with incredible scenic views, makes for on

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23 October 2018

WHEN AMCN WAS A FLY ON THE TEAM DUCATI WALL AT PHILLIP ISLAND

Phil Aynsley and Hamish Cooper were “flies on the wall” at 2016 Australian Grand Prix for the entire race weekend. Every practice, qualifying and during the race they were inside Ducati’s pit garage and they both  gained the belief that Ducati was about to start something