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…
Leopoldo Tartarini passed away on 11 September 2015 at his home in the hills outside Bologna, at the age of 83. Tartarini was the founder of Italjet, the small…
Ken Rivers immigrated to Australia to work his brother’s dairy farm in South Australia. But, on arrival, he decided to take a look around his new country. An…
Today we look with envy upon the privileged few who are let loose to ride as fast as humanly possible on ordinary public roads that otherwise would…
This year was one I’ll remember for a while, regardless of the step down from the 600 Supersport to the Yamaha R3 class, I’ve gained copious amounts of experience and…
Motorcycling’s a strange thing, I thought, as I stared at a Honda slowly revolving on a floodlit plinth at the MotoGP Expo. For a second I thought it was the…
Tell us a bit about your role. I’m Glenn Allerton’s dedicated mechanic with the Yamaha Racing Team. It’s my responsibility to fuel the bike, make sure things aren’t falling off…
Briggo is one of the biggest personalities in motorcycling, and has been friends with a host of legends. The Kiwi brought speedway to the mainstream, and his wild adventures after…
As always, it was a marathon effort even get to the track, with a two-day flight down the Hume required – including the usual stop over at the town of…
I am proud and happy to be able to write this column about this great sport of ours. A sport where all concerned shall henceforth live by the creed of…
Scooting home form Betws-y-Coed one Sunday evening back in 1958, Nick Lidstone fantasized that if he just kept the throttle pinned on his newly acquired 125cc Douglas Vespa it could…
