Troy Bayliss needs no introduction to Superbike race fans but his re-introduction to Australian Superbike racing for a full season in 2018, at the ripe old age of…
Greg Pretty sits inside the concrete wall at Bathurst’s GTX Bend, sipping reflectively on a steel tin of Carlton Draught while he fiddles with the ring-pull clip (photo at…
Andrew Coaker was among the scores of youngsters competing in the growing enduro scene in the 90s when he was invited to navigate his cousin John’s Toyota Ute in…
“It was very satisfying helping Dean achieve his dreams” I was born in Toowoomba in 1970. I used to go to my relatives during the holidays…
Here’s a simple question. Name the Italian motorcycle manufacturer synonymous with transverse, overhead-valve V-twins since 1965? Yes, it’s Moto Guzzi. Now name the Italian company…
Painting custom helmets, you must get to know the riders in a different way to most people. Yeah that’s right. I guess you could go back to…
At the end of an Easter weekend, three riders share a joke (right) while friends and family look on. This photograph, taken after the Unlimited Australian Grand Prix…
Off-road desert races like Dakar are usually accomplished with one bike ridden by one rider, typically in tough, hot and dusty conditions. How is the Baja 1000 different? In…
Yes, you know the one. Cobalt blue and ocean-deep silver paintwork. An elegant half-fairing, sensuously shaped tank and sexy ducktail seat with an usual zipper connection. The point…
Rick Walden ignored advice in 1979 to spend another year racing at home and headed overseas. He wanted to compete in the last year of the World Formula…
Team orders are controversial enough anyway. Perhaps it was in the interests of decency, sportsmanship, truth and beauty that Jorge held himself aloof. But more likely because his…
As published in AMCN (Vol 67 No 11) Ignore history at your peril. As Irish philosopher Edmund Burke famously stated three centuries ago, “Those who don’t know history are…
