What got you into bikes? My dad Keo raced at Mount Druitt back in the day, but I didn’t really have an interest in bikes when I…
When President John F. Kennedy made his momentous announcement on 25 May 1961 that the US would put a man on the moon by the end of the decade, it…
Many country lads were swept up in the motorcycle boom of the late 1960s, and one of them was the supremely talented Terry McDonald.
You’ve had a very different timeline in bike racing; where did it start? I started off on a Kawasaki Trail Boss, a 100cc farm bike. Then I…
Clear out the back of the garage and you’ll find you own at least two copies of the Guinness Book of Records. For almost three decades this annual tome was…
The biggest change in the history of road racing? Surely it was in the 70s, when the sight of pudding basin helmets and black leathers worn by stern-faced…
What got you into bikes? As a Bathurst local, I’d been going to the Easter races since I could walk. I started riding trailbikes and rode enduros,…
It’s said to be Soichiro Honda who originally coined the phrase ‘racing improves the breed’ and never has the influence of on-track activity on showroom models been as…
Tell us about your Aussie memories? Australia is one of my favourite places: it’s where I first rode the (HRC) 250 and 500 together at the old Surfers Paradise racetrack.
Sixty years ago this Easter, Bob Mitchell won the sidecar race at Mount Panorama on a Norton 500, becoming the only man to win the unlimited three-wheel…
What got you into bikes? My dad owned Peter Rice Honda at Capalaba and I started racing motocross and dirt-track on a RM80 and then a CR80,…
That 29-year-old Ellis Matthewman Bankin settled readily into the life of Head Teacher of Badgers Creek School in rural Victoria appeared out of form. Though educated as a teacher, Bankin…
