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TWICE AROUND THE CLOCK

So when George Patterson – the British Lightweight TT Champion – arrived on our shores to demonstrate the abilities of the 2.5hp ‘New Hudson’, he found that…
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MAURICE QUINCEY

In April 1950, 20-year-old Maurie Quincey took a fortnight off from his Footscray Tech College electrical and mechanical engineering studies to contest the Australian TT in Bunbury, WA. It…
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BEN GRABHAM - AUSTRALIA'S ARCHETYPE DESERT KING

In hindsight, it’s not difficult to spot the point when the ascent of Toby Price became evident. Until that time, our homegrown Desert King Ben Grabham was unrivalled.
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BIRDSVILLE OR BUST

In 1845 when Charles Sturt faced neverending waves of sand rather than Australia’s mythical inland sea, prompting him to turn back east. Another 100 years passed before a…
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GLENN FLACK

“I got into bikes in the late ’60s, early ’70s on my Suzuki 250, riding with a group of guys in the North Ryde area,” said Glenn Flack. “We…
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MITSUO ITO

Mitsuo Ito, who died on 3 July 2019 aged 82, was an important man in the history of Japanese motorcycle racing. But the only one of his countrymen…
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NEIL TINKER

Neil Tinker is probably the only Australian motorcycle racer who has made a hands-on contribution to the defence of the USA. A carpenter from Warrnambool, he worked for…
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CANNING STUNT

Sixty years have passed since the last mob of Kimberley cattle were driven south along West Australia’s Canning Stock Route, an odyssey only made possible by water drawn from…
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MURRAY OGILVIE

You’ll most likely find 1970s racer Murray Ogilvie standing in a chilly mountain stream or running his shop in Jindabyne. Three or four months a year he fly…
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KIM NEWCOMBE

On the promise of an engineer’s position with the Maico Factory – and the ideal opportunity to advance his motocross career – Kim Newcombe, and his wife Janeen, were all…
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RICK WALDEN

Rick Walden ignored advice in 1979 to spend another year racing at home and headed overseas. He wanted to compete in the last year of the World Formula…
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THE GREAT RACE

By the mid 1970s, live TV coverage had demonstrated the reliability of production motorcycles, so when Rob Atlee approached fuel supplier Ampol to sponsor a reliability trial, it…