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WAYNE BRYANT

Pride of place in the Canberra home of Wayne and Kathy Bryant is a model of a 1953 NSU Rennmax 250 racer. Wayne, 77, is a former dirt-track…
History

TWICE AROUND THE CLOCK

So when George Patterson – the British Lightweight TT Champion – arrived on our shores to demonstrate the abilities of the 2.5hp ‘New Hudson’, he found that…
Features

OLD FOES, NEW TECH

Honda and Yamaha have dominated premier-class Grand Prix racing for the last four decades. Honda entered the 500cc class in 1966, contested two seasons, withdrew for a decade,…
History

MAURICE QUINCEY

In April 1950, 20-year-old Maurie Quincey took a fortnight off from his Footscray Tech College electrical and mechanical engineering studies to contest the Australian TT in Bunbury, WA. It…
Features

TRANS-CURIOUS

AMCN Reader Tom Pryor wrote in and posed a very valid question. “I have wondered for ages why a simple gearbox is not fitted to electric vehicles,” he…
History

BEN GRABHAM - AUSTRALIA'S ARCHETYPE DESERT KING

In hindsight, it’s not difficult to spot the point when the ascent of Toby Price became evident. Until that time, our homegrown Desert King Ben Grabham was unrivalled.
History

BIRDSVILLE OR BUST

In 1845 when Charles Sturt faced neverending waves of sand rather than Australia’s mythical inland sea, prompting him to turn back east. Another 100 years passed before a…
History

GLENN FLACK

“I got into bikes in the late ’60s, early ’70s on my Suzuki 250, riding with a group of guys in the North Ryde area,” said Glenn Flack. “We…
Opinion

THE C WORD - WHY RIDERS CRASH

Crashing a car is nobody’s idea of a picnic. I’ve had my ribs cracked asunder, lungs seatbelt-smacked to the point where it felt like I was breathing through a…
History

MITSUO ITO

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…
History

NEIL TINKER

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…
Opinion

SPEED FREAKS!

A foolish, or panic-prone road user might be alarmed by a road-safety campaign that’s defined by the catchy two-word tagline ‘Towards Zero’. It would be understandable to fear…