LIKE most SUCCESSFUL road-racers of his era, Karl Muggeridge spent much of his youth on dirt tracks, progressing from 50cc short circuit to National Motocross. He’d not long switched…
Words Peter Whitaker Photography Byron Gunther It wasn’t that Maroubra lacked the same resonance as Brooklands, Indianapolis or Monza. More that the…
John Woodley was one of Australasia’s most talented road racers who had the attitude and professionalism to go all the way. If not for a string of inopportune machine…
The Ducati 999 is the company’s most successful World Superbike weapon – with more wins than the 851, 888, 916, 996, 998, 1098, 1198, 1199 and the 1299 Panigale.
The announcement of the 1975 AMCO 1000 Desert Rally caused great consternation among the good citizens of Broken Hill. The hot topic was that the proposed desert rally…
Shane Diener: 10-time winner Nowhere was the ethos of cross-country motorcycle endurance racing embraced with more enthusiasm than South Australia’s Barossa Valley. During the 1930s, when motorcycles vastly outnumbered…
Twenty five years ago, Australian motorsport lost a legend when Gregg Hansford, the only racer to win Bathurst on two and four wheels, died in a Super Touring…
As a 20-year old in 1936, Bruce Hector trapped rabbits to buy a Norton International so he could road race. In his late 80s, he was patron of…
THE FACT ARTHUR Grady chose a motorcycle to circumnavigate Australia isn’t surprising. It wasn’t until the early 1920s sales of four wheelers surpassed their two-hooped cousins.
John John Woodley’s legendary Unlimited Grand Prix duel with Graeme Crosby and Ron Boulden on larger machinery remains etched in Bathurst folklore. All three were riding a…
Les Graham was part of that special breed of racer whose careers were interrupted by the Second World War. That was quite a life – racing on lethal street…
Denny McCormack was one of a kind – a free-wheeling wild child of the 50s and 60s and a self-confessed health nut who only ate salads, wheatgerm and…