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MAD MAX: MADDER THAN MAX

In mid-1977 Dale Bensch and a couple of mates spotted an ad in Peter Stevens requesting 10 film extras. Little did they know how much that…
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RISE OF THE MACHINES: MOTORCYCLES AND AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES

   Words & photography Ben Purvis Technology is transforming both the bikes we ride and the cars we share the road with and…
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Happy 70th Birthday AMCN!

Happy 70th birthday AMCN! It was way back on 1 June 1951 that the very first issue of what was then called The Victorian Motor Cycle Weekly was published, making…
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AMAROO PARK | DAYS OF THUNDER

Amaroo Park and the Castrol Six Hour race epitomised the freewheeling Australia of the Seventies. In a setting almost like a Roman amphitheatre, the…
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FROM DOWN UNDER TO DAKAR

Words Peter Whitaker Photography AMCN archives The Dakar Rally may well have remained beyond Aussie horizons had not Hans Tholstrup and Tom Snooks devised the…
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THE POWER OF DREAMS

The first Honda Dream hit the showroom floor in 1957 when B&W took on the Australian distributorship. Shortly after, our local Lions Club held the Ryde Motor…
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PROJECT POINTLESS

It was bound to happen sooner or later. You’re at your uncle’s digs and there it is, the mid-80s whatsimacallit you learned to ride on. Your uncle says…
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THE FIRST LAP OF TASSIE

When Reg Beauchamp and his mate Len Hyland first announced their intentions to ride around their home state on motorcycles, no one took much notice. For most Tasmanians,…
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THE TESI TANGO

  Words AMCN & Alan Cathcart Photography Kyoichi Nakamura & AC “We’ll supply and maintain the Tesi 1DR Corsa,” Bimota CEO Giuseppe Morri said…
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THE MEN WHO MADE MOTOCROSS

A history of the men who made motocross. In the years following WW2, motorcycle scrambles flourished across the south eastern regions of Australia. Yet it was a…
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SUPER-STUNT SPECTACULAR

   Words & Photography Peter Whitaker Up in the Hunter Valley it was a time when Sunday afternoons in Autumn were set aside for solos, sidecars…
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POSTER BOY

   Words Darryl Flack    Photography AMCN & DF archives When I signed up to be AMCN’s Sydney editor, little did I…