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Lambretta’s 250cc GP Prototype

Here’s a simple question. Name the Italian motorcycle manufacturer synonymous with transverse, overhead-valve V-twins since 1965? Yes, it’s Moto Guzzi. Now name the Italian company…
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EASTER RACING AT BATHURST

At the end of an Easter weekend, three riders share a joke (right) while friends and family look on. This photograph, taken after the Unlimited Australian Grand Prix…
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Where are they now? Rick Walden

Rick Walden ignored advice in 1979 to spend another year racing at home and headed overseas. He wanted to compete in the last year of the World Formula…
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Not Forgotten - Tony McAlpine

Barely two weeks after his 16th birthday, Tony McAlpine wrapped up the 1937 NSW Motor Cycling Championship on a BSA 500. It is therefore logical to contemplate…
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Where are they now? Malcolm Stanton

“I’m the luckiest man alive!” says 1960s international racer Malcolm Stanton. The 74-year-old Aussie and wife Terri now follow the sun around the country in a fifth-wheel trailer,…
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EASTER RACING AT BATHURST

At the end of an Easter weekend, three riders share a joke while friends and family look on. This photograph, taken after the Unlimited Australian Grand Prix at…
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Where are they now? Bob Carpenter

Clerk of Course for any motorsport event is a demanding position, be it a quarter-mile drag race or Mount Panorama. And when the responsibility extends to as much…
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Not Forgotten - Cal Rayborn

Born in San Diego in 1940, Cal Rayborn first rode a motorcycle when he was eight. In his teens he worked as a delivery boy after school…
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They did what? Bad Day at Barrow Creek

When the barmaids of Darwin were refused time off to celebrate the end of The Great War in 1918, it was the fiery orator HG Nelson who took up…
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Where are they now? Wes Cooley

My first bike was a Suzuki 50 step-thru. I did a bit of riding in the desert but I never did flat-track, like most young American racers. My dad…
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Not forgotten - Robert Holden

Robert Holden was born in the UK in 1958, and emigrated to New Zealand with his family when he was 13. In the mid-70s he survived a…
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Boberg’s bungle

Long before the term photojournalist was coined, John (‘Jack’) H Boberg convinced his literary editors at the Sydney Daily Mail that taking a year to circumnavigate Australia with his…