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,…
The three-time world champion, and only person to win both a WSBK and MotoGP race in the same season, didn’t just slip back into the sport. He chose the…
Australia has always been boxing above its weight in world motorcycle championships so there are many legends to honour. Last year the AMCN Hall of Fame…
Check the name Stephen Leslie Bailey in the official Isle of Man archives and you’ll find two appearances – the first and the second for any Australian competitor. Check…
Prior to the Great War, Buck was building motorcycles at Rex Engineering in Coventry in the UK. At the same time, he was also winning TT class races at…
By the time Hedge won his first hat-trick in the epic Sydney to Darwin Safari, he was already being referred to as Australia’s Stéfane Peterhansel; something he found a…
The first question everyone is asking is if this bike feels anything like the Ninjas I raced previously overseas. It is practically the same machine, so I expected…
Call it what you like; editorialising, romancing, journalling, fictionalising or just outright bullshitting! Hell knows, they’re easy to love. But today’s ride to work, dear reader, there was…
When Paul Carter let slip his next project would be to ride a motorcycle around Australia, his wife Clare was quick to point out that while Paul may be…
