The other day someone told me that by the end of this season I will have clocked up 700,000km in travel while racing in ASBK. It’s only…
As Australian tobacco advertising restrictions tightened throughout the 1980s, ‘big tobacco’ poured more and more money into motorsport, with the consequence that Wayne Gardner’s 1987 World Championship was…
Whether it’s a track bike, a trials bike, a racebike, a dirtbike or your kid’s bike, many motorcyclists use a trailer to transport their motorcycles to and…
Wollongong-born Troy Corser loved racing motorcycles as a kid. And it was thanks to this very Suzuki RGV250 and bit of encouragement from another well-known Wollongong racer named…
There are times when I forget how long this magazine has been around. And then I take a phone call from one of the many great characters…
The documentary WAYNE, celebrating the life and times of Wayne Gardner, has created a flurry of interest in just a few preview outings. It hits local film…
How did the European trip come about? A team contacted me to replace an injured rider. It was a simple fly-in fly-out deal to race a Kawasaki…
What’s the real story behind the title of your book From Para to Dakar? The Paris-Dakar was the original name of the Dakar Rally, and my journey was from…
We had been warned before the commencement of the practice day that, while the track was dry, the ripple strips were still wet from the overnight rain.
Motorcycles are as diverse and complex as the people who ride them, they’re not a one-tool-fixes-all kind of machine. In fact, the list of tools you might need…
George Bolton was introduced to motorcycles and machinery at an age when steam still powered industry, and aspiring engineers learnt on the tools by day…
Suitable secondhand machinery was plentiful in the late 1960s. So much so, that there were literally hundreds of C-grade entries at Amaroo and Oran Park when Garry Thomas first…
