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Interviews

Grid Talk - Dr Richard Draper

How did you get into bikes? I grew up on a farm around Parkes, New South Wales, and I learnt to ride on a Honda 90 step-through ag bike.
How to

Five dumb questions you’ve always wanted to ask about tyres

  Do all those numbers on the side of my tyres actually mean anything? Yes … and no. Although the size of a tyre is…
Rides

Dave Barr - Riding the Southern Cross

When Dave Barr set out from Perth to circumnavigate Australia he wasn’t attempting the record for fastest lap of the map. He may have hit new heights of determination and…
History

Where are they now? - Geoff Sim

He rides every day, walks 5km daily, and ideally would fly every day as well. He’s Geoff Sim, Australian 125cc champion in 1975 and ’76, and a motorcycle…
History

Where are they now? David Luthie

You had a typical introduction into bike racing, but with a twist… In the early 70s, a mate of mine Zach Hogan had a Honda XR75,…
Opinion

Tyred and emotional

This year the latest-generation Michelins have had a huge influence on MotoGP results, and from Round 6 onwards will continue to do so… except in a different…
How to

How to change brake pads

Last week we explained how to change brake discs – and solve the problem of pulsing brakes. Whenever you change discs, you also need to change…
Interviews

Keith Turner - Hard yards racing in Europe

What would you do if you awoke one morning behind the ‘Iron Curtain’ in 1968 with your hotel surrounded by big tanks as Czechoslovakia was being invaded by the…
History

Not forgotten - Billy Sanders

Whenever Brisbane speedway legend John Titman travels down to Sydney, he drives out to the grave site of Billy Sanders at Minchinbury in western Sydney to pay his…
Opinion

Revolving Racer - Melissa Bruce

Melissa Bruce – Growing up, I was not the kid racer with doting helicopter parents. I was the kid that was destined to grow up a ‘failure’.
Opinion

My single cylinder pleasure

I’m having one of those love/hate relationships with single cylinder bikes at the moment – actually it’s a fair bit more hate than love. For what seemed like…
History

Where are they now? Stephen Greenfield

The celebrations were long and hard on the Queen’s Birthday weekend in 1997 when Stephen Greenfield took his first Finke Desert Race victory. He’d previously made the podium…