In 1963, a leather craftsman by the name of Sante Mazzarolo brought forth a future icon. Based in the small Northern Italy town of Asolo and with the perennial Alpine…
FREE PRACTICE ONE Friday 10.55am YOU CAN FEEL electricity in the air as mechanic Mark Elder wheels Andrea Dovizioso’s Desmosedici into pitlane. This is the culmination of…
The thing about MotoGP these days – it is very unpredictable. Even more so for the forthcoming 2017 season, with significant rider changes as well as a new era without…
The handlebar-mounted dials we once referred to as gauges are these days going by the name of the Integrated Connectivity Cluster – at least in the hallways of both Bosch,…
Congratulations on a fabulous 2016 season Mike. Can you sum up your ASBK season? The 2016 season has been a fantastic season, that’s for sure. Signing for the Desmosport Ducati…
There were several hungry young guns who helped detonate the 1970s MX boom. The first was the son of a fireman, Marty Smith, signed by American Honda in 1974 when…
I’ve dreamed of becoming an Australian Champion since I first started riding. This year I competed in the highly competitive ASBK 300cc Production class, and it has been amazing but…
He’d made Western Australia in barely three insane days but by the time he reached Port Hedland he was out of his mind. In a successive series of mishaps he…
It was early spring 1920 when, in an outstanding feat of endurance, Harold ‘Ranji’ Parsons rode precisely 1114.5 miles in 24 hours. And this over a rough gravel…
Those few short weeks before Christmas bring back faded memories for us former seventies longhairs. Then we think a bit deeper and they become vivid. Almost like they happened…
The Australian Tourist Trophy was once this country’s premier motorcycling event, with close links to the more famous TT in the Irish Sea, and was similarly run on public road…
The term ‘teammate’ is the greatest misnomer in motorcycle racing. The first person you must beat is your teammate because they’re on the same machinery as you, right? And they…
