Lets take a look through the archives at AMCN Vol 21 No 13 15 cents On sale 23 December 1971 Editor: Leslie Swallow News…
It was one of the blackest weeks in the history of American road racing. Two of its brightest young stars were lost to the world in the…
John Titman was a big part of the Golden Era of speedway What got you into bikes? I was born in Brisbane and when we went to…
What got you into bikes? My dad Keo raced at Mount Druitt back in the day, but I didn’t really have an interest in bikes when I…
When President John F. Kennedy made his momentous announcement on 25 May 1961 that the US would put a man on the moon by the end of the decade, it…
Many country lads were swept up in the motorcycle boom of the late 1960s, and one of them was the supremely talented Terry McDonald.
You’ve had a very different timeline in bike racing; where did it start? I started off on a Kawasaki Trail Boss, a 100cc farm bike. Then I…
Clear out the back of the garage and you’ll find you own at least two copies of the Guinness Book of Records. For almost three decades this annual tome was…
The biggest change in the history of road racing? Surely it was in the 70s, when the sight of pudding basin helmets and black leathers worn by stern-faced…
What got you into bikes? As a Bathurst local, I’d been going to the Easter races since I could walk. I started riding trailbikes and rode enduros,…
It’s said to be Soichiro Honda who originally coined the phrase ‘racing improves the breed’ and never has the influence of on-track activity on showroom models been as…
Tell us about your Aussie memories? Australia is one of my favourite places: it’s where I first rode the (HRC) 250 and 500 together at the old Surfers Paradise racetrack.
