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…
Considering the great amounts of bugger all that exist in outback Australia, it’s depressing we can no longer support a cross-country rally; let alone a round of the FIM World…
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…
For three years the fledgling KTM team had been attempting to break the dominance of Honda and BMW in the phenomenon that was the Paris-Dakar. Then, in 2001, Fabrizio Meoni…
HOW’S THIS FOR a prediction from 80 years ago? Winglets on a racing motorcycle. Believe it or not, this illustration was published in Britain’s Motor Cycling on 17 June 1936.
There’s no doubt about it – Aussie Scott Britnell can ride rougher for longer. Sure, Rocky Robinson may have flashed across Bonneville Salt Flats at over 600km/h. However, all Rocky…
“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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
