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THE OL' STRZELECKI

The Old Strzelecki Track is part of a well-used trade route that dates back prior to European settlement. These days it is popular with riders and 4WDers, as one…
History

CANNING STUNT

Sixty years have passed since the last mob of Kimberley cattle were driven south along West Australia’s Canning Stock Route, an odyssey only made possible by water drawn from…
History

MURRAY OGILVIE

You’ll most likely find 1970s racer Murray Ogilvie standing in a chilly mountain stream or running his shop in Jindabyne. Three or four months a year he fly…
History

KIM NEWCOMBE

On the promise of an engineer’s position with the Maico Factory – and the ideal opportunity to advance his motocross career – Kim Newcombe, and his wife Janeen, were all…
Opinion

GUEST COLUMN - TIM CAMERON

Hi there, I’m a motorcycle designer. It sounds like a great job, right? And pretty simple really. There’s your blank piece of paper, there’s your damned crayons, so…
History

RICK WALDEN

Rick Walden ignored advice in 1979 to spend another year racing at home and headed overseas. He wanted to compete in the last year of the World Formula…
Features

BATTLE CRUISER

Fresh from its eighth consecutive record sales year in 2018, after delivering a total of 165,566 units last year en route to its self-imposed target of breaking the 200,000…
History

THE GREAT RACE

By the mid 1970s, live TV coverage had demonstrated the reliability of production motorcycles, so when Rob Atlee approached fuel supplier Ampol to sponsor a reliability trial, it…
History

ROGER BARKER

Roger Barker was the life of the party,” according to a railwayman Bob Tomlinson, who loaned him a Triumph Tiger 100 for ‘butcher’s picnic’ events near Albury in…
History

TONY MCALPINE

Barely two weeks after his 16th birthday, Tony McAlpine wrapped up the 1937 NSW Motor Cycling Championship on a BSA 500. It is therefore logical to contemplate…
History

JOHN ATKINSON

As a newly married young bloke battling bureaucracy to establish a peat farm near Bombala on the New South Wales south coast, John Atkinson was introduced to the…
Features

WHAT'S IN A CLUTCH?

Wet or dry? Dry clutches, named as such because they do not operate in an oil bath, are fairly rare beasts, but can still be seen…