Life these days for Kiwi Gordon Barrett is very different to when he won the 1981 Australian 350 road-racing championship. “I’m semi-retired and I have developed a passion for…
My driving force has always been to look for ways to improve; making small improvements moves me forward to meeting my goals. This is…
It’s one thing to win at Bathurst, yet quite another to be first across the finish line after what many rate as the hardest battle around the mountain of…
Your son Mike is racing for a factory team in Europe and you’re a suspension guru for a top team in Australia. How did it start? Well, I…
Nobby Clark’s business card describes the 80-year-old as “The choice of champions”. Overleaf, a list of 15 names runs from Gary Hocking (1961 350/500cc) through to Kenny…
You competed in Flat Track in the X Games ’17. How did that come about? I’ve been invited to all the X Games they’ve had now: ’15, ’16 and…
1. If I want my bike to pop monos easier, do I need to gear my bike up or down? That depends. The language of gearing can…
I was invited on a free trip to Vietnam in 1970. The Australian government was prepared to send me free of charge as long as I was prepared…
Enter Rodger Freeth, the bespectacled Kiwi rider who made his name at Bathurst with a number of sizzling performances on McIntosh Suzukis in the 80s. T…
Back in 1906, what is now the Hume Freeway heading north out of Melbourne was simply known as Sydney Road – a wide thoroughfare encompassing a narrow strip…
My motivation in racing is to reach (and hopefully achieve) new goals. Going faster than the session before or improving a particular part of my riding is where…
Yamaha’s VMAX – the descendent of the original V-Max – has been killed off. In 2017 the last one rolled off the production lines withs no sign…
