In senior high school, Phil Aynsley was a slightly nerdy science whiz and model aircraft maker with the ambition to be an air-traffic controller. Then he…
Ivan was blasting around the Jurien Bay sand dunes on his quad when he first met Vern Strange and the two struck up a lasting…
At a time when a bicycle cost the average punter more than 10 weeks wages, motorcycling was restricted to the wealthy man-about-town and a four-wheel voiturette was the province…
Rimini, Italy, 1950s. Every Sunday an Italian boy walks from his house to the barber for his weekly trim. The barber always talks to the boy about his great…
Thirty years ago Daryl Beattie scored his maiden grand prix victory on a Honda NSR500 at Hockenheim in Germany. At 22 he was the country’s youngest GP winner…
During the four weeks before the decisive and last race of the 1983 grand prix season, Freddie Spencer didn’t sleep very well. In the middle…
Back in the mid-1970s, with the inaugural Katherine Carnival imminent, riding mates John Pfitzner and Lofty Evans found themselves at a meeting hosted by carnival organiser Sylvia Wolfe. Sylvia…
Towards the end of his successful racing career, two-stroke aficionado Charlie Edwards grafted a Yamaha 347cc twin-cylinder, air-cooled two-stroke engine into a Hagon speedway chassis. This powerplant…
Ralph Hubert ‘Sonny’ Barger Jnr passed away on 29 June 2022 when, after previously surviving throat and prostate cancer, he lost his fight against liver cancer.
Australian motorcycling has something very special in its midst. It’s fueled by a mixture of determination and devotedness and unfortunately, too many of us won’t appreciate the…
Don Cox tells us about the making of Circus Life, a publication about Australian motorcycle racers in Europe in the 1950s. Leaning out of a racing sidecar outfit, left shoulder…
AMCN 1993 Vol 43 No 12 100 pages, $4.25 22 Oct – 4 Nov 1993 Editor: Ken Wootton The year was 1993…
