BIKE TESTS
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
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
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
CASTROL SIX HOUR | WIN ON SUNDAY...1970-1987
For 18 years it was an iconic Australian institution.
TREVOR DISCOMBE: THE LEGEND OF YAMAHA ASIA
If it wasn’t for a wayward wheelie off the line, Kiwi Trevor Discombe could have been a household name. This is his story.
DEAD ON ARRIVAL: BIKES OF FUTURE PAST
In a time when out-of-the-box innovation ruled motorcycle design, here are eight motorcycles that may well have changed the course of motorcycling… had they made production
DUKES OF WELLINGTON: HAND BUILT WORLD BEATERS
Nitro-burning Ducatis, a short-stroke Pantah that revved to over 14,000rpm, one of the very first 851 Superbike engines housed in a custom frame. Things got a little crazy in New Zealand in the 1980s
GENTLEMAN JOHN: JOHN WOODLEY
John Woodley was close to being thrust into the limelight in the 1970s – until he hit a cast iron fire hydrant on his RG500
1989: WE RODE ALEX CRIVILLÉ'S JJ-COBAS TB5 125 RACER
It’s been 30 years since Alex Crivillé took out the 125cc GP world title aboard the Rotax-powered JJ-Cobas. We wind back the clock to a time when two-strokes ruled the world
CRAZY BIKES OF THE 70s
Don your orange sunnies as we look at the whackiest bikes of The Brady Bunch era. All those drugs have a lot to answer for, man.