Alex Phillis: I’m really looking forward to the Island Classic’s four International Challenge races. It will be an enjoyable way to start what is shaping up as a big year…
Here is a pic of me washing my first bike when I was just 17, crazy how you could ride big bikes when you first got your licence back then,…
With Dakar’s defending champ Matthias Walkner, the 2017 victor Sam Sunderland and, not least, the current FIM World Cross-Country Champion and 2016 winner Toby Price in the line-up, it’s little…
Born late enough to miss the end of WW2 hostilities, Brian Payne arrived in Melbourne as a Ten Pound Pom, conning a job with the BSA importers despite a lack…
Trees are tall. But they do not touch the sky. I offer this cod philosophy to help keep things in proportion. When you are up too close to something, it…
FRED FAVOURITE 1971 Honda SL70 My first bike was a 1971 Honda SL70 on which I taught myself to ride on at 13. My dad bought it for me and…
Who was Kawasaki’s first road-race winner in Australia? Ken Blake, Ron Toombs, Gregg Hansford? It was Richard Reid, in the Victorian 250 TT at Calder on 12 February, 1967. In…
An Outback thunderstorm slowly rolled towards me as I sat on the ancient timbers of a cattle yard at Coward Springs railway siding. The Oodnadatta track was about a kilometre…
The WorldSBK paddock had been hearing the names of Honda, Moriwaki and then finally Althea being linked for the past few months. So when the Milan show came around and…
Until the ISDT was rebranded as the International Six Day Enduro and Australia became affiliated with the Federation Internationale de Motorcyclisme (FIM), Aussie riders were obligated to compete under the…
Ted Collins: I’ve ended my first season in the premier class of Australian road racing as Rookie of the Year. What a roller-coaster rider it was. We started the ASBK…
One of my year-end pleasures is putting the mighty 320-page Motocourse tome to print. And one of the pleasures of editing it for the past 15 years or so is…
