COLUMNS
John ‘Hedge’ Hederics – Australia’s first King of the Desert
“But if I raced autos, there’d be no expectations and I could have fun”
Revolving Racer - Bryan Staring
The first question everyone is asking is if this bike feels anything like the Ninjas I raced previously overseas. It is practically the same machine, so I expected it would be very similar, but the different tyre and suspension package gives our ASBK bike a different character. T
Redmond
Call it what you like; editorialising, romancing, journalling, fictionalising or just outright bullshitting! Hell knows, they’re easy to love. But today’s ride to work, dear reader, there was no amount of romancin’ that would have me lovin’ that. The best I can do is loo
He did what? - Riding Hazardous waste
The first lap of Australia powered by used cooking oil
Not forgotten - Bob Levy
The sidecar supremo on any surface
Grid talk - Jake Skate
Jake Skate’s JDS Moto is about to take on the CIV Italian Championship with young Aussies Joel Kelso and Jack Mahaffy
Jorge's dad - Chicho Lorenzo
Jorge Lorenzo’s dad made him the racer he is today. Now Chicho is helping others via his hi-tech riding and psychological training techniques, with a little help from secret service agency Mossad
Kiwi Legend - Rodger Freeth
If you think French MotoGP star Johann Zarco is a methodical thinking man’s racer, settle in for the story of Kiwi road racing legend Rodger Freeth
30th anniversary of the World Superbike Championship - History can repeat
In a few months they created the prototype of the world’s most sophisticated V-twin
AMCN Revolving Racer - Chandler Cooper
I had no idea how to race a roadbike, let alone a full-spec Moto3 machine
Miklos ‘Mike’ Salamon
Miklos Salamon began life as a refugee. He ended it as a well-off creator and collector of all things two wheels. This is his story
In Pit Lane - More questions than answers
The World Championships turn 70 this year; the series is pretty spry for a septuagenarian. MotoGP’s exuberance is a measure of its success: the growing pains of the last decade and the ghastly proddie-based CRT bikes now all but forgotten. It is once again paradoxically youthfu