During the four weeks before the decisive and last race of the 1983 grand prix season, Freddie Spencer didn’t sleep very well. In the middle…
Back in the mid-1970s, with the inaugural Katherine Carnival imminent, riding mates John Pfitzner and Lofty Evans found themselves at a meeting hosted by carnival organiser Sylvia Wolfe. Sylvia…
Towards the end of his successful racing career, two-stroke aficionado Charlie Edwards grafted a Yamaha 347cc twin-cylinder, air-cooled two-stroke engine into a Hagon speedway chassis. This powerplant…
Ralph Hubert ‘Sonny’ Barger Jnr passed away on 29 June 2022 when, after previously surviving throat and prostate cancer, he lost his fight against liver cancer.
Australian motorcycling has something very special in its midst. It’s fueled by a mixture of determination and devotedness and unfortunately, too many of us won’t appreciate the…
Don Cox tells us about the making of Circus Life, a publication about Australian motorcycle racers in Europe in the 1950s. Leaning out of a racing sidecar outfit, left shoulder…
AMCN 1993 Vol 43 No 12 100 pages, $4.25 22 Oct – 4 Nov 1993 Editor: Ken Wootton The year was 1993…
Determined and positive were the adjectives usually applied to Ray Quincey (Raymond Maurice Quincey) – as a racer and in the 44 years after he was paralysed in a…
AMCN Vol 51 No 4 114 pages, $6.50 On sale Aug 31 – Sept 13 Editor: Ken Wootton The season long battle between the…
The missing piece of John Britten’s motorcycle history jigsaw puzzle has finally been put in place and visitors to the Southern Hemisphere’s largest motorcycle museum this summer…
Born on 18 January 1936, and raised on a New Zealand dairy farm, Hugh Robertson Anderson played rugby league, began his working life in a foundry before moving into a…
Acknowledged as one of the stalwarts of the National scrambling community, Ray Dole was a consistent winner at Sydney’s Moorebank Circuit; a venue which, under threat of closure, had undergone…
