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…
Mentored by speedway legend Phil Crump in their home town of Mildura, Leigh Adams was just 15 years old when he won the Australian Under-16 Solo Championship in 1986…
Hypohydration is the medical term for as dry as a dead dingo’s donga. A condition which not only increases temperature and fatigue, but also induces brain fade.
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
