Rick Walden ignored advice in 1979 to spend another year racing at home and headed overseas. He wanted to compete in the last year of the World Formula…
Barely two weeks after his 16th birthday, Tony McAlpine wrapped up the 1937 NSW Motor Cycling Championship on a BSA 500. It is therefore logical to contemplate…
“I’m the luckiest man alive!” says 1960s international racer Malcolm Stanton. The 74-year-old Aussie and wife Terri now follow the sun around the country in a fifth-wheel trailer,…
At the end of an Easter weekend, three riders share a joke while friends and family look on. This photograph, taken after the Unlimited Australian Grand Prix at…
Clerk of Course for any motorsport event is a demanding position, be it a quarter-mile drag race or Mount Panorama. And when the responsibility extends to as much…
Born in San Diego in 1940, Cal Rayborn first rode a motorcycle when he was eight. In his teens he worked as a delivery boy after school…
When the barmaids of Darwin were refused time off to celebrate the end of The Great War in 1918, it was the fiery orator HG Nelson who took up…
My first bike was a Suzuki 50 step-thru. I did a bit of riding in the desert but I never did flat-track, like most young American racers. My dad…
Robert Holden was born in the UK in 1958, and emigrated to New Zealand with his family when he was 13. In the mid-70s he survived a…
Long before the term photojournalist was coined, John (‘Jack’) H Boberg convinced his literary editors at the Sydney Daily Mail that taking a year to circumnavigate Australia with his…
In 1983-84, Bruce Collins (then 26) and passenger Chris Dinuzzo gave the Australian championships a red-hot go, sometimes literally. In 1983 at Oran Park they beat multiple champions Geoff…
I grew up in Manly and didn’t know much about motorcycles. Rugby league fans will know Brookvale Oval, but back then it was the Brookvale Showground, and that’s…
