Fifty years AFTER the moon landing, your humble little motorcycle is stoked with more computing power than the lunar lander. Yep, like your mobile phone, your bike could probably…
Many bikes still have inner tubes inside the tyres; if you get a flat on a spoked-wheel adventure bike or off-roader, chances are the tube will be…
There are two times you really want to know whether a bike’s frame is straight: when you’re buying, or after you have crashed. Sometimes the symptoms can be difficult…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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.
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…
“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…
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…
