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Opinion

Where are they now? Gary Coleman

Not many people amass 36 years’ involvement in racing –12 years as a rider, winning three Australian Grands Prix at Bathurst, and 24 working for premier-class GP teams,…
Opinion

Full & cool

We were on our way to Bathurst, NSW, when we stopped for a feed at Pie in the Sky at Bilpin, on Bell’s Line of Road in the…
How to

How to take a pillion

There is no denying we all love the solitude motorcycling provides in our otherwise hectic lives, or else we wouldn’t have been attracted to riding in the…
History

Motorcycle chariots 

The 1933 revival of the Police and Firemen’s Carnival was a sensation. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, “a more spectacular attraction has never been seen on Sydney…
Opinion

Big yellow taxi

As I battled my way to Sydney airport, Joni Mitchell’s  Big Yellow Taxi cooed plaintively out of the hire car’s sound system. Seventies longhairs remember these words: “Don’t it always…
History

Where are they now? - Laurie Alderton

Laurie Alderton is renowned for his frame-straightening business in Sydney’s west, now run by his son, David. Laurie turned 80 last year, and still cycles 5km down to…
History

The James boys

Born into a wealthy Melbourne family, Australia’s James boys never resorted to crime like outlaw Jessie James, though in 1896 they decided to try their luck in the…
Interviews

Grid Talk - Paul Free

From team owner at Motologic to crew chief to Troy Bayliss, what are the biggest changes in operating the garage? I’ve come from running a team with pretty much…
Opinion

Revolving Racer - Aidan Hayes

Stepping off a Fat Bob following my ride with Dobie for last issue’s Harley feature and climbing back onto my Cube Racing Kawasaki ZX-6R racebike was a…
Opinion

The Flying Doctor - Rodger Freeth

Rodger Freeth was a multiple New Zealand champion who could win on anything. Born in Picton, a town on New Zealand’s South Island, on Christmas Eve in 1953,…
Interviews

Grid Talk - Simon Crafar

What were you thinking when you got the call up for this role? When I got offered the job I just said what I thought straight away, that I…
History

Where are they now? Warwick Schuberg

It was tooling around Florida Keys on a 150cc Vespa that first attracted young Warwick to two wheels and, on his return home to Australia, the need to…