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30 years since the first Australian Grand Prix

Thirty years ago this month, a motorcycle race knocked the nation’s socks off, attracting a race-day crowd of 92,000 and a massive audience on the nation’s leading commercial television network.
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Not forgotten - Blair Harley

Friends reckoned Blair Harley could turn his hand to anything; he would study it and then do it, even yacht building. He competed in scrambles/motocross including a season in Europe,…
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WAYNE ‘FLASH’ FARLEY

When the inaugural Wynn’s Sydney to Darwin Safari was announced in 1985, the aspirants included 67 two-wheel enthusiasts, few of whom had any idea of what lay ahead. The Finke…
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Old School - 80s Katana

The big buzz at the moment is Suzuki’s brave decision to relaunch the Katana, its icon model of the Eighties. If Suzuki’s car division can relaunch the Jimny, why shouldn’t…
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Eddie Lawson’s back-to-back titles

Eddie Lawson became the first rider to win back-to-back 500cc world titles on different bikes. Now, 30 years on, his engineer Erv Kanemoto reveals how the archived it and…
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He did what? Geoff Mack

When Albert Geoffrey McElhinney passed away on the Gold Coast in July 2017 few would have known he was one of the most-well travelled blokes in Australia. Born in Melbourne…
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BMW Type 255 RS 500 Kompressor

In the middle of the 1930s, BMW surprised friend and enemy when it introduced its newest racer, a supercharged boxer twin. The black machine didn’t appear all that threatening, but…
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Remembering Eric Geboers

Eric Geboers and his four older brothers proved Belgium has more to offer the motorcycling world than Spa-Franchorchamps, one of the most beautiful road racing circuits circuits in the world…
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They did what? Girls just wanna have fun

Pat Norton first came to public notice when – at the age of 14 – she was known as ‘Nipper’ Norton in the Bondi Swimming Club. Only a year later…
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Where are they now? Geoff Crocott

Teddy Preston’s death at the Sydney Royale Speedway towards the end of the 1965/66 season was the final straw for Geoff Grocott. His beloved Vincent outfit was put on the…
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Not Forgotten - Keith Bryen

IN 1957, KEITH Bryen might have been tempted to pinch himself to check it was
real, in one season racing ex-works Nortons, works AMC machines at the Isle of Man, works…
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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…