I’m having one of those love/hate relationships with single cylinder bikes at the moment – actually it’s a fair bit more hate than love. For what seemed like…
In fact, those aren’t the exact words Valentino Rossi chose to describe French parvenu Johann Zarco. But that’s only because he’s aware he needs to guard his words,…
The first will be a well-used Record brand engineer’s bench vice with raised letters on the side proudly proclaiming ‘Made in the UK’. That vice will probably have…
It was hard to ignore the kerfuffle when young property tycoon Tim Gurner suggested young Australians would have a better chance of getting into the housing market if they lightened…
I started racing BMX at the age of four, then motorbikes at seven. I competed in mini-khana, motocross and supercross. I started enduro at 16 and raced in…
Formula 1 car racing these days is cripplingly dull, overpriced, impersonal and irrelevant, an over-rated spectacle of lots of money following even more money round and round, with…
I was riding bicycles before I could walk and rode my first motorbike at the age of three. I played soccer from the age of five, but that only…
I wonder if the same rules apply in our modern, liberated and politically correct times? I wonder if it is safe, or even appropriate, to continue the sexist…
I sat in the shed and weighed up my options. The 2001 Triumph Bonneville I’d converted into a street tracker a few years back was the…
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…
There was a signal demonstration of the truth about modern racing in the desert night at Qatar. No, not the sheer hubris of running…
What a start to the year it has been! By now most of you would know I’m racing as a privateer in this year’s Australian Superbike Championship,…
