Nobby Clark’s business card describes the 80-year-old as “The choice of champions”. Overleaf, a list of 15 names runs from Gary Hocking (1961 350/500cc) through to Kenny…
Enter Rodger Freeth, the bespectacled Kiwi rider who made his name at Bathurst with a number of sizzling performances on McIntosh Suzukis in the 80s. T…
Back in 1906, what is now the Hume Freeway heading north out of Melbourne was simply known as Sydney Road – a wide thoroughfare encompassing a narrow strip…
Yamaha’s VMAX – the descendent of the original V-Max – has been killed off. In 2017 the last one rolled off the production lines withs no sign…
Is it really 40 years since the 1977 Castrol Six Hour Race? No wonder I feel 68. It’s a good thing I keep diaries or plumbing the grey matter…
You had a typical introduction into racing, but with a twist… In the early 70s, a mate of mine had a Honda XR75 and that sparked my…
He rides every day, walks 5km daily, and ideally would fly every day as well. He’s Geoff Sim, Australian 125cc champion in 1975 and ’76, and a motorcycle…
You had a typical introduction into bike racing, but with a twist… In the early 70s, a mate of mine Zach Hogan had a Honda XR75,…
Whenever Brisbane speedway legend John Titman travels down to Sydney, he drives out to the grave site of Billy Sanders at Minchinbury in western Sydney to pay his…
The celebrations were long and hard on the Queen’s Birthday weekend in 1997 when Stephen Greenfield took his first Finke Desert Race victory. He’d previously made the podium…
Mount Druitt Marathon – AFTER the success of Australia’s first 24-hour production car race, exuberant Mount Druitt track promoter Belfred Jones hit up the NSW Auto Cycle Union…
COVER Wayne Gardner flying the Aussie flag at home. AMCN GP Edition $3.50 – 95 pages On sale 14 April 1989 …
