Sixty years ago this Easter, Bob Mitchell won the sidecar race at Mount Panorama on a Norton 500, becoming the only man to win the unlimited three-wheel…
What got you into bikes? My dad owned Peter Rice Honda at Capalaba and I started racing motocross and dirt-track on a RM80 and then a CR80,…
That 29-year-old Ellis Matthewman Bankin settled readily into the life of Head Teacher of Badgers Creek School in rural Victoria appeared out of form. Though educated as a teacher, Bankin…
Spectacular Sydney rider Max Robinson was in a very strong position to win the inaugural Chesterfield 5000 Superbike series in 1973. But a few months out from the final round,…
In 1963, a leather craftsman by the name of Sante Mazzarolo brought forth a future icon. Based in the small Northern Italy town of Asolo and with the perennial Alpine…
FREE PRACTICE ONE Friday 10.55am YOU CAN FEEL electricity in the air as mechanic Mark Elder wheels Andrea Dovizioso’s Desmosedici into pitlane. This is the culmination of…
There were several hungry young guns who helped detonate the 1970s MX boom. The first was the son of a fireman, Marty Smith, signed by American Honda in 1974 when…
It was early spring 1920 when, in an outstanding feat of endurance, Harold ‘Ranji’ Parsons rode precisely 1114.5 miles in 24 hours. And this over a rough gravel…
The Australian Tourist Trophy was once this country’s premier motorcycling event, with close links to the more famous TT in the Irish Sea, and was similarly run on public road…
Neil Kelly grew up across the road from the Doomben race course in Brisbane, but it was a horse power of a different kind that caught the eye of the…
If you want to appreciate Eric Hinton’s career, dig deeper than the world championship Grand Prix results. He won four non-championship GPs in Europe, highlighted by the 1959 Czech 500…
Leopoldo Tartarini passed away on 11 September 2015 at his home in the hills outside Bologna, at the age of 83. Tartarini was the founder of Italjet, the small…
