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…
What got you into racing? I started out riding dirt bikes around the place as a kid, just for fun. My dad, Richard, used to race, so that was where…
Neil Kelly grew up across the road from the Doomben race course in Brisbane, but it was a horse power of a different kind that caught the eye of the…
Motorcyclists in general like to talk about their crashes, often with amused self-deprecation, so looking over Dorna’s annual ‘Final Falls’ compilation can be pretty funny. Not quite so much this…
If you want to appreciate Eric Hinton’s career, dig deeper than the world championship Grand Prix results. He won four non-championship GPs in Europe, highlighted by the 1959 Czech 500…
AMCN Motorcycle of the year 2016 was arguably the most hotly contested in its long history. As soon as the eight finalists were revealed to our expert judging panel, the…
