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Where are they now? Kevin Cass

Born in 1938, Kevin Cass completed his Leaving Certificate before taking on a mechanical engineering apprenticeship with the Port Kembla Steelworks, 10km south of Wollongong, NSW.
Features

SHOW US YOUR FIRST RIDE

In the next issue of AMCN we will print our favourite six entries. Five will receive an Oxford helmet bag, and the photograph we judge to be the…
Opinion

Revolving Racer - Chas Hern

It took just a split-second for everything to change. I was at a fun meeting called Historic Winton, which involves classic cars and motorcycles. There were some of…
History

Monocoque Master Steve Roberts

Highly modified 1000cc four-stroke engines in production bikes had by 1980 brought vast quantities of power. But even heavily altered roadbike frames couldn’t cope with the increased…
History

Where are they now? Keith Stacker

Keith Stacker began racing motorcycles when he was 17. A year later he won the 1954 250cc Australian Hill Climb Championship on a BSA that was almost as…
Interviews

Grid Talk - Dave ‘Radar’ Cullen

You’ve had a career as a technician spanning five decades and everything from domestic series, GPs, IoM TT, WorldSBK and even a year of World Motocross. Any chance of…
History

She did what? - Bushido warriors

By 1990, the Australian Safari had become the most notorious motorsport broadcast on Japanese TV, with millions of viewers in their tiny city abodes enthralled by a phalanx…
History

Ducati’s Superbike history

Ducati’s ground-breaking 851 superbike was born in a great period of change in the mid-1980s, both for the Italian company and world motorcycle racing. A takeover by Cagiva had…
Interviews

Grid Talk - Stephen Gall

Where are you headed? I’m driving from our Gold Coast base to Wagga for a round of the NSW Amcross series. It’s a great event run on…
History

Eric Hinton’s Bathurst bitsa

Suppose there was a racing machine that did just 26 laps in one weekend under its intended rider, yet won two Australian Grand Prix races and set…
Opinion

Talent vs poverty gap

Questions asked at parties: number nine: “Do motorcycle grand prix racers get paid millions like F1 drivers?” My reply’s been the same for years. Racing…
Rides

1941 H-D Knucklehead through Cuba

To this day, I can remember the face-off between US President John F. Kennedy and Soviet Union leader Nikita Khrushchev in the early 1960s and how my school had prepared…