A one-time streetbike maniac who was pointed in the direction of racetracks by his Sunday morning buddies, Art ‘The Dart’ Baumann was the first man to win a AMA road…
How did you get into bikes? My brother John ‘Wal’ Megalos had a Bridgestone 90 road bike that he started to race in the early 70s. I was still in…
Forty years before the Grand Prix promoters invented a prize for the best performed non-factory rider, there was an unofficial racers’ badge of honour – the top 500 class private…
By the time he turned 24, rising Queensland solo star Bert Kingston had parlayed a stunning evening at Archerfield Speedway into a full-time ride in the newly formed British League.
In June 1973, Geoffrey Leonard Perry had the world at his feet. The 23-year-old Aucklander had just won his first ever AMA national, defeating Kel Carruthers by half a meter…
You won the 500cc class in the 1972 Castrol Six-Hour with Les Kenny. That was a big deal. We were trying to get bikes out of Yamaha, but they were…
The year is 2003 and Queensland’s Jono Porter is slumped in a chair as he starts an interview with AMCN’s Ken Wootton on the main stage at the Sydney Motorcycle…
When you first started racing how did that come about? A friend of mine took me to the second ever Calder meeting in 1962. I sat down in the esses…
With the outbreak of the Second World War the new Ted Pardoe-designed 125cc two-stroke ‘baby Royal Enfield’ became the WD/RE; the ‘War Department Royal Enfield’. These bikes could run on…
In a career spanning two decades, this versatile young swinger won no less than nine major titles including both National Speedway and Long Track Championships. “I started racing in 1985…
Known the world over for his stunning victory over Giacomo Agostini at Oran Park in December 1971, Bryan Hindle was a popular rider who was something of an outlier in…
The youngest of five children, David Emde grew up in a San Diego motorcycle family made famous across the American race scene. It would be only a matter of time…
