The year is 2003 and Queensland’s Jono Porter is slumped in a chair as he starts an interview with AMCN’s Ken Wootton on the main stage at the Sydney Motorcycle…
We’ve a few ‘go on us’ recently, to use an Old School expression of the day. Let’s see. David Bowie at 69 years. The Eagles’ Glenn Frey at 67. Jefferson…
When you first started racing how did that come about? A friend of mine took me to the second ever Calder meeting in 1962. I sat down in the esses…
It’s always quite interesting to take a look at the people you’ve grown up with, schooled with, met in recent years and compare how you all live. Most people fall…
“WHY WOULD YOU ride those funny looking seatless motorcycles…? They must weigh nothing the way they can bunny hop up shipping containers.” These are just some of the…
The email I sent to my friend had no word content. It only had a subject heading that stated: “My new toy, I’m in love again.” The photo I’d attached…
Jorge Lorenzo is the fastest MotoGP rider in the world. Jorge Lorenzo has battled to finish in the top 5 for the last two rounds. Both of the above contradictory statements are…
With the outbreak of the Second World War the new Ted Pardoe-designed 125cc two-stroke ‘baby Royal Enfield’ became the WD/RE; the ‘War Department Royal Enfield’. These bikes could run on…
In a career spanning two decades, this versatile young swinger won no less than nine major titles including both National Speedway and Long Track Championships. “I started racing in 1985…
My dad took me to the Island Classic one year and the rest is history! Wandering through the pits I sat on a racebike and was instantly hooked. Since that…
If it was 20 years ago today that Sergeant Pepper taught the band to play, then they would have been able to provide the musical backdrop to a remarkable racing…
Known the world over for his stunning victory over Giacomo Agostini at Oran Park in December 1971, Bryan Hindle was a popular rider who was something of an outlier in…
