As I battled my way to Sydney airport, Joni Mitchell’s Big Yellow Taxi cooed plaintively out of the hire car’s sound system. Seventies longhairs remember these words: “Don’t it always…
Stepping off a Fat Bob following my ride with Dobie for last issue’s Harley feature and climbing back onto my Cube Racing Kawasaki ZX-6R racebike was a…
Rodger Freeth was a multiple New Zealand champion who could win on anything. Born in Picton, a town on New Zealand’s South Island, on Christmas Eve in 1953,…
The three-time world champion, and only person to win both a WSBK and MotoGP race in the same season, didn’t just slip back into the sport. He chose the…
The first question everyone is asking is if this bike feels anything like the Ninjas I raced previously overseas. It is practically the same machine, so I expected…
Call it what you like; editorialising, romancing, journalling, fictionalising or just outright bullshitting! Hell knows, they’re easy to love. But today’s ride to work, dear reader, there was…
My path into road racing is probably a little different to most. As a kid I raced dirt track on the small bikes – it was kind of…
The World Championships turn 70 this year; the series is pretty spry for a septuagenarian. MotoGP’s exuberance is a measure of its success: the growing pains of the last…
I’ve been in India a bit lately, and this has led me to a honking (quite literally) realisation about a rider’s rite of passage, of the heightened skill…
Speedway racing can give you the highest of highs or the lowest of lows. I was a Reserve for my home GP in Melbourne last year, and waiting…
Normally my sights are set on what challenges and goals lie ahead, not the past. However, now that I’ve announced my retirement after 16 years of top-level Australian and…
Our competitiveness started early. When we were about 10 and 12, our dad bought a second dirtbike. Until that point we’d been sharing an old DT175, taking it…
