Less than 50 miles after setting out on the first landwards leg of his odyssey, 26-year-old Doug Voss faced his moment of truth. There was no spectral light, just an…
Gary Gabelich’s Blue Flame rocket car became the first vehicle to top 1000km/h and Don Vesco’s twin-engined ‘Big Red’ streamliner the first motorcycle to better 400km/h. Then, in what seemed…
A one-time streetbike maniac who was pointed in the direction of racetracks by his Sunday morning buddies, Art ‘The Dart’ Baumann was the first man to win a AMA road…
How did you get into bikes? My brother John ‘Wal’ Megalos had a Bridgestone 90 road bike that he started to race in the early 70s. I was still in…
Forty years before the Grand Prix promoters invented a prize for the best performed non-factory rider, there was an unofficial racers’ badge of honour – the top 500 class private…
Troy, you jumped off the Kawasaki ZX-6 last year, and went straight onto the Yamaha R6 this year. You won the opening round of ASBK at Phillip Island in…
I was born on 8 June 1996 and had my first major operation 12 hours later. I was given a less than 50 per cent…
Singapore was flooded. Teng and I decided that rather than hang around in the rain, we would instead ride our motorbikes north in the rain to…
By the time he turned 24, rising Queensland solo star Bert Kingston had parlayed a stunning evening at Archerfield Speedway into a full-time ride in the newly formed British League.
In June 1973, Geoffrey Leonard Perry had the world at his feet. The 23-year-old Aucklander had just won his first ever AMA national, defeating Kel Carruthers by half a meter…
You won the 500cc class in the 1972 Castrol Six-Hour with Les Kenny. That was a big deal. We were trying to get bikes out of Yamaha, but they were…
My highlight for 2015 was when I flew out to Slovakia to represent Australia in the ISDE. I surprised myself, and a lot of others there by finishing in 4th…
