One of my year-end pleasures is putting the mighty 320-page Motocourse tome to print. And one of the pleasures of editing it for the past 15 years or so is…
I’m back home in Australia after an awesome season in the WorldSBK SSP300 championship. When I last wrote for AMCN I was two races into the season and struggling with…
It’s official. Retro motorcycles are a market niche that is here to stay. Many of us former Seventies longhairs were sceptical of this sales segment when it suddenly got legs…
The trouble with writing about Rossi is that you never know quite what he is going to do next. The Doctor is massively talented, ruthlessly charming, reliably Sunday-fast, and infused…
I think some Aussies don’t realise how good we have it Down Under. I’m not talking about living conditions, natural beauty or even weather, which are all top shelf; I’m…
Three-deep into Doohan Corner during the 2006 Australian Grand Prix, I rubbed my eyes because Makoto Tamada on the Kawasaki was leading the race by fifteen lengths from Alex Hoffman…
Many MotoGP fans may think it a left-field decision to have Triumph providing the engines for Moto2 from next year, but it makes total sense for many of us former…
I will be heading over to the International Six Day Enduro in Chile in a few days with Tayla Jones and Mackenzie Tricker. I haven’t seen the girls all year…
There was something missing from the finish line of the Thai GP. It was Jorge Lorenzo’s Ducati, which might even have won the race if, er, circumstances hadn’t intervened. Actually…
It’s been a great year for me. It started with two race wins and the overall points score at the Phillip Island International Challenge (Davo’s result gave Team Australia their…
As Appeared in AMCN magazine Vol 68 No 07 I’m really looking forward to the ASBK final at Phillip Island. The racing’s gone to another level this season in all…
MY LAST COLUMN about the 1980s got a few people talking about that decade. But here’s something they don’t want to talk about: what it cost to live back…
