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History

Sitges Autodrome, Spain

In the farming hills overlooking the popular seaside town of Sitges, with its yacht club and marina full of expensive boats, sits an immense kidney-shaped bowl with banked high-speed corners…
Opinion

Pit Lane - Has someone got it in for Jorge?

There was something missing from the finish line of the Thai GP. It was Jorge Lorenzo’s Ducati, which might even have won the race if, er, circumstances hadn’t intervened. Actually…
Interviews

Grid talk with Josh Waters

It’s been a remarkable turnaround since The Bend, where you finished 12th overall and suffered a DNF in one of the three races. What got you back up at the…
Interviews

Grid Talk - Peter Hickman

Where did you find that explosive pace that gave you the 2018 IoM Senior win and title of world’s fastest road racer? Good weather for the…
Opinion

Revolving Racer - David Johnson

It’s been a great year for me. It started with two race wins and the overall points score at the Phillip Island International Challenge (Davo’s result gave Team Australia their…
History

Not forgotten - Vic Willoughby

Scan a baby-boomer bike nut’s book shelf and you’ll likely see the name Vic Willoughby. His works included Classic Motorcycles, The Racing Motorcycle, Winning Racing Engines, Exotic Motorcycles – A…
How to

How to - BASIC RESTO

We’ve all eyed off a bike that needs a bit of work; whether it’s your own bike that’s been damaged, a bike that’s been stored for a long period of…
History

Where are they now? Lindsay Urquhart

Come the retirement of international sidecar superstars Bob Mitchell and Bernie Mack in the mid-1950s, Lindsay Urquhart was quick to identify the opportunities. With old mate Jim Craig in the…
Opinion

Revolving Racer - Troy Bayliss

As Appeared in AMCN magazine Vol 68 No 07 I’m really looking forward to the ASBK final at Phillip Island. The racing’s gone to another level this season in all…
History

WORLD’S FIRST CORPORATE ADVENTURE

BMW provided two of its then-new R1150 GS bikes, which became a bestseller for the German company after the ratings-winning, seven- episode TV series Long Way Round was…
Opinion

Money money money

MY LAST COLUMN about the 1980s got a few people talking about that decade. But here’s something they don’t want to talk about: what it cost to live back…
History

The Vale Circuit - Pre-Panorama Bathurst

Between them, the New South Wales provincial towns of Goulburn and Bathurst had a firm grip on the major motorcycle race meetings when the sport was…