Now you’re settled back home from Lake Gairdner, how’d it all go? In 2017, our boy Lachlan (now 16) rode the old Cagiva Mito 125 in the production…
There’s only one reason to visit Poeppel Corner. And that’s to say you’ve been there. There’s no grand old pub with a wide shady verandah, no historic public edifice…
It’s been a torrid time for sports scandals. Thanks to the Australian cricket team and the merciless revelations of long-lens TV cameras. You’ll all know the details: heck,…
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,…
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…
