In hindsight, it’s not difficult to spot the point when the ascent of Toby Price became evident. Until that time, our homegrown Desert King Ben Grabham was unrivalled.
In 1845 when Charles Sturt faced neverending waves of sand rather than Australia’s mythical inland sea, prompting him to turn back east. Another 100 years passed before a…
“I got into bikes in the late ’60s, early ’70s on my Suzuki 250, riding with a group of guys in the North Ryde area,” said Glenn Flack. “We…
Mitsuo Ito, who died on 3 July 2019 aged 82, was an important man in the history of Japanese motorcycle racing. But the only one of his countrymen…
Neil Tinker is probably the only Australian motorcycle racer who has made a hands-on contribution to the defence of the USA. A carpenter from Warrnambool, he worked for…
Sixty years have passed since the last mob of Kimberley cattle were driven south along West Australia’s Canning Stock Route, an odyssey only made possible by water drawn from…
You’ll most likely find 1970s racer Murray Ogilvie standing in a chilly mountain stream or running his shop in Jindabyne. Three or four months a year he fly…
On the promise of an engineer’s position with the Maico Factory – and the ideal opportunity to advance his motocross career – Kim Newcombe, and his wife Janeen, were all…
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…
By the mid 1970s, live TV coverage had demonstrated the reliability of production motorcycles, so when Rob Atlee approached fuel supplier Ampol to sponsor a reliability trial, it…
Roger Barker was the life of the party,” according to a railwayman Bob Tomlinson, who loaned him a Triumph Tiger 100 for ‘butcher’s picnic’ events near Albury in…
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…
