When President John F. Kennedy made his momentous announcement on 25 May 1961 that the US would put a man on the moon by the end of the decade, it…
Many country lads were swept up in the motorcycle boom of the late 1960s, and one of them was the supremely talented Terry McDonald.
You’ve had a very different timeline in bike racing; where did it start? I started off on a Kawasaki Trail Boss, a 100cc farm bike. Then I…
I am still in a state of shock and disbelief as to the support I have been given leading up to this season. The end of 2016…
Wings are banned. Progress has been jammed. MotoGP has taken another backward step away from being a genuine sphere of valuable engineering research. Or has it? Perhaps the opposite ……
So who was the original 70s biker chick? In 2016 the models sashayed down the Paris Fashion Week runway, setting the catwalk on fire with their leather…
Clear out the back of the garage and you’ll find you own at least two copies of the Guinness Book of Records. For almost three decades this annual tome was…
The biggest change in the history of road racing? Surely it was in the 70s, when the sight of pudding basin helmets and black leathers worn by stern-faced…
What got you into bikes? As a Bathurst local, I’d been going to the Easter races since I could walk. I started riding trailbikes and rode enduros,…
“I want to thank my Mum and Dad, the flaggies and volunteers for today.” At age 10 and the next seven years this would…
It takes time to get to know somebody new. Things that first attract you might, before too much longer, prove irritating instead. A smile, perhaps, that…
It’s said to be Soichiro Honda who originally coined the phrase ‘racing improves the breed’ and never has the influence of on-track activity on showroom models been as…
