There’s no doubt about it – Aussie Scott Britnell can ride rougher for longer. Sure, Rocky Robinson may have flashed across Bonneville Salt Flats at over 600km/h. However, all Rocky…
Alongside his colleague Fred MacSorley, John Hinds, became famous as one of the Flying Doctors. Mounted on motorcycles and carrying bright orange packs stuffed with medical equipment, the pair provided…
What a start to the year it has been thus far for myself in the 2016 Australian Off-Road Championship (AORC). For those who may not know or follow the AORC,…
“Today my health is still good at 73, thanks mainly to good genes from my English-born parents and not falling off too hard…” Triple Australian TT winner Peter Jones has…
Every year on June 9 there is a luncheon in a Melbourne pub to honour 1970s racing hero Ken Blake. This year’s gathering marked 35 years since Blake died in…
He was just the second Aussie to win a world title, and he could have had more… Australia’s 1961 world 125 champion Tom Phillis has been included on a brand-new…
We find out why Michael van der Mark, the 2014 World Supersport champion and former truck driver – who finished seventh in his WSBK debut in 2015 – hates clowns…
True Blue Brando The season was tough to say the least. I had to learn a lot of new tracks, help develop a new bike and work with a…
In the 1950s, the Isle of Man TT was the event in world racing and motorcyclists dreamt of riding there. In 1956, Ken Kavanagh let a whole nation dream along…
When Adrian Knight rode his BMW650 X-Challenge solo from Steep Point in Western Australia to the mainland’s most easterly point, the lighthouse at Byron Bay, he created a stir by…
I broke my back in two places and suffered a grade 4 liver laceration ‘I want to be a motorbike racer’. My answer to a question I was asked as…
Wayne Gardner has two reasons to remember the 1986 Spanish 500 Grand Prix at Jarama. It was his first Grand Prix victory and the back story is one of his…
