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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Roger Barker was the life of the party,” according to a railwayman Bob Tomlinson, who loaned him a Triumph Tiger 100 for ‘butcher’s picnic’ events near Albury in…
Barely two weeks after his 16th birthday, Tony McAlpine wrapped up the 1937 NSW Motor Cycling Championship on a BSA 500. It is therefore logical to contemplate…
As a newly married young bloke battling bureaucracy to establish a peat farm near Bombala on the New South Wales south coast, John Atkinson was introduced to the…
James Empson, the manufacturer of IRIS bicycles, installed a 3½hp Precision two-stroke into one of his well-tested frames in early 1910 and entered the ‘Two Mile Scratch Race’ at…
Wynne credits the late Robert Holden with introducing him to the country. He loves the weather, scenery, beaches and roads, which he describes as being like the Isle…
