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…
AMCN VOL 26 No 01 32 pages, 30c On sale July 2, 1976 Editor: Jeff Maynard The year was 1976 The man who introduced colourful…
Not forgotten | Ralph ‘Sonny’ Barger In the mid-1960s, Sonny Barger’s name started appearing in biker film credits as ‘technical adviser’ and by the end of the decade he had…
America’s infamous and highly illegal Cannonball Run was launched to celebrate the life of a serial record breaker. And it turns out George Cannon Ball Baker’s first love was motorcycles.
Kenneth Leroy Roberts was born on 31 December 1951 in the town of Modesto, California. His mother Alice and his father Buster moved Kenny and his step-brother and sister…
Thirteen laps remain in the 1976 Australian Unlimited Grand Prix and the chase is on. Warren Willing on his privately entered Yamaha TZ750 is hunting Ikujiro Takai’s works…
In 1972, bikies ran riot through a New Zealand city square in an event unlikely to ever be repeated The roar of dozens of British motorcycles heralded…
“The Daytona 200 taught me everything I needed to know about racing,” is high praise from Freddie Spencer, as he took a look back at the famous…
The dominance of 500cc two-stroke machines in grand prix racing came to an end in 2001. The following year 990cc four-stroke prototypes were allowed to join the grid…
As soon as the first bicycle hit the streets, someone wanted a lift somewhere. Once bicycles became powered by two-stroke powerplants and belt-drive had given way to…
