Bike Tests
1955 WOOLER FLAT FOUR 500
The Wooler Flat Four 500 delivered a level of performance and comfort years ahead of its time, yet became just another fascinating footnote to the Motorcycle history book
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THE FIRST YAMAHA: 1955 YAMAHA YA-1 RED DRAGONFLY
When Yamaha made its first motorcycle 66 years ago, it proved how good it was by flying up a volcano
DAYS OF THUNDER: AMAROO PARK
One of the world’s craziest tracks hosted Australia’s most important annual road race of the Seventies, the Castrol Six Hour.
"HE IS EITHER A, GREAT CHAMPION OR A NOTHING"
In 1995 Valentino Rossi rode his first international season. His results weren’t great, but some of his rivals already knew he was something very special
THE MEN WHO MADE MOTOCROSS
Looking back, it seems rather apt that the world’s most isolated city played host to the world’s first cross-country enduro
THE SUMMER OF HIGHSIDES: THE YEAR THAT MADE RAINEY AND DOOHAN
The 1990 world championship ushered in the Rainey/Doohan era, just as the 500s seemed on the verge of collapse, with talk of replacing them with four-strokes
HOW THEY ROLLED: 1996 AUSTRALIAN SAFARI IN AN OUTFIT
Twenty four years ago, two blokes went and did something no one had ever successfully done before, or since
HISTORY MAKER: CECIL SANDFORD
Cecil Sandford, 93, was MV Agusta’s first world title winner and is now motorcycling’s oldest surviving world champion
POSTER BOY
This is how that now-iconic Susie poster came to be
LOST CAUSE: YAMAHA'S 1982 500CC GP SEASON
Desperate times call for desperate measures. Determined to win back the world 500cc title in 1982, Yamaha put its star rider onto a completely untried V4. Here’s what happened
FACTORY OUTLET: HAILWOOD'S HONDA RC181
Imagine if Marc Marquez got jack of waiting for HRC to fix the handling on his RCV213V and hired a local frame guru to improve it. That was what Mike Hailwood did in the 1960s