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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
To Troy Bayliss, winning was like a work bonus. While he loved racing motorcycles, he competed on the world stage as a family man. Superbike racing was his job,…
