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…
When Cru Halliday stepped off his YZF-R1 in the wet after the final MotoGP support race in 2017, there was a very real possibility it would be his last time…
Tavullia has been Rossi Town for a couple of decades. Pretty much every tree, light post and window flies a VR46 flag. The speed limit is 46km/h instead of 50,…
Troy Herfoss was a champion deposed in 2017, dethroned by Suzuki’s prodigal son Josh Waters. And by by the time the 2018 season began, another name was on everyone’s lips:…
Bet many of you thought you would never see a female World Champion, no matter how small the bikes got? Bet many of you always thought that there would be at…
Marc Marquez is rich and famous beyond his dreams. Or his needs. That’s what comes with being a five-time MotoGP world champion and perhaps the ultimate risk taker in the…
I’m back home in Australia after an awesome season in the WorldSBK SSP300 championship. When I last wrote for AMCN I was two races into the season and struggling with…
There are precious few examples of men who were motorcycle racers and merchant seamen. John Warrian was one. Melburnian Patrick Bruce was another, with the added memory of half a…
At the outbreak of World War II, Kevin Rohrlach was of an age where he was mesmerised by machinery and was already recycling; disused farm implements, wire, leather strapping, bolts,…
It’s official. Retro motorcycles are a market niche that is here to stay. Many of us former Seventies longhairs were sceptical of this sales segment when it suddenly got legs…
