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Where are they now? Kevin Cass

Born in 1938, Kevin Cass completed his Leaving Certificate before taking on a mechanical engineering apprenticeship with the Port Kembla Steelworks, 10km south of Wollongong, NSW.
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Monocoque Master Steve Roberts

Highly modified 1000cc four-stroke engines in production bikes had by 1980 brought vast quantities of power. But even heavily altered roadbike frames couldn’t cope with the increased…
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Where are they now? Keith Stacker

Keith Stacker began racing motorcycles when he was 17. A year later he won the 1954 250cc Australian Hill Climb Championship on a BSA that was almost as…
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She did what? - Bushido warriors

By 1990, the Australian Safari had become the most notorious motorsport broadcast on Japanese TV, with millions of viewers in their tiny city abodes enthralled by a phalanx…
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Ducati’s Superbike history

Ducati’s ground-breaking 851 superbike was born in a great period of change in the mid-1980s, both for the Italian company and world motorcycle racing. A takeover by Cagiva had…
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Eric Hinton’s Bathurst bitsa

Suppose there was a racing machine that did just 26 laps in one weekend under its intended rider, yet won two Australian Grand Prix races and set…
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Where are they now? Troy Corser

Twice world superbike champion Troy Corser lives in England with wife Sam and their teenage children. But work still takes the 46-year-old around Europe, instructing at race academies for…
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Serendipity in the Never Never

It was nothing more than a hankering for adventure that took a couple of young bloods from the Melbourne suburb of Hawthorn on a coast-to-coast journey from Adelaide…
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JIM AIREY | KING OF THE SPEEDWAY ROYALE

Long before BMX was a thing, Jim Airey was racing cut down pushies around Parramatta’s Cumberland Oval, which was where he met his lifelong friend Gordon Guasco.
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Where are they now? Charlie Edwards

While Charlie Edwards serving his apprenticeship at SJ Motorcycles in Dandenong, Edwards became equally captivated by motorcycles and, on obtaining his racing licence, used his model-aeroplane experience to…
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Jack Forrest

There’s one motorcyclist whose name is guaranteed a mention every time motorsport graces Mount Panorama, and that’s Arthur Ronald ‘Jack’ Forrest. In an age…
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Where are they now? - Lindsay Walker

At 26 years old and somewhat at a loose end, Lindsay Walker was offered the opportunity to flog a few Avon tyres. After a few years peddling life-insurance…