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WHERE ARE THEY NOW?- Peter Jones

“Today my health is still good at 73, thanks mainly to good genes from my English-born parents and not falling off too hard…” Triple Australian TT winner Peter Jones has…
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Race Legends- Kenny Blake

Every year on June 9 there is a luncheon in a Melbourne pub to honour 1970s racing hero Ken Blake. This year’s gathering marked 35 years since Blake died in…
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Not forgotten- Tom Phillis

He was just the second Aussie to win a world title, and he could have had more… Australia’s 1961 world 125 champion Tom Phillis has been included on a brand-new…
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Ken Kavanagh- Australia’s First TT Victory

In the 1950s, the Isle of Man TT was the event in world racing and motorcyclists dreamt of riding there. In 1956, Ken Kavanagh let a whole nation dream along…
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Two crazies complete Australia’s longest transcontinental crossing. Or was it?

When Adrian Knight rode his BMW650 X-Challenge solo from Steep Point in Western Australia to the mainland’s most easterly point, the lighthouse at Byron Bay, he created a stir by…
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How Wayne Gardner became World Champion

Wayne Gardner has two reasons to remember the 1986 Spanish 500 Grand Prix at Jarama. It was his first Grand Prix victory and the back story is one of his…
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RACING LEGEND BARRY SHEENE

Forty years ago, global warming wasn’t a dirty phrase. Thus the sweltering summer of 1976 – which kept setting new records for warmth and days of sunshine – was something…
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Careering across the Coorong

The year was 1928 when, with very little fanfare, the Great South Road out of Sydney and the Sydney Road out of Melbourne was designated the Hume Highway – a…
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Where are they now? Brian Martin

Brian Martin was a Kiwi road racer, MXer, desert racer who made Oz his home What got you interested in bikes? In the mid-60s I thought a motorbike would be…