The World Championships turn 70 this year; the series is pretty spry for a septuagenarian. MotoGP’s exuberance is a measure of its success: the growing pains of the last…
I’ve been in India a bit lately, and this has led me to a honking (quite literally) realisation about a rider’s rite of passage, of the heightened skill…
Speedway racing can give you the highest of highs or the lowest of lows. I was a Reserve for my home GP in Melbourne last year, and waiting…
Normally my sights are set on what challenges and goals lie ahead, not the past. However, now that I’ve announced my retirement after 16 years of top-level Australian and…
Our competitiveness started early. When we were about 10 and 12, our dad bought a second dirtbike. Until that point we’d been sharing an old DT175, taking it…
Motovudu riding coach (and 500 GP winner) Simon Crafar helped out a lot. He let me stay with his family and took me around Spain a little with his…
As we slithered around the 90-degree corner, the back straight of New Zealand’s Pukekohe circuit unfolded. All one kilometre of it, which eventually ends in a 50km/h hairpin.
Yes, you know the one. Cobalt blue and ocean-deep silver paintwork. An elegant half-fairing, sensuously shaped tank and sexy ducktail seat with an usual zipper connection. The point…
Team orders are controversial enough anyway. Perhaps it was in the interests of decency, sportsmanship, truth and beauty that Jorge held himself aloof. But more likely because his…
As published in AMCN (Vol 67 No 11) Ignore history at your peril. As Irish philosopher Edmund Burke famously stated three centuries ago, “Those who don’t know history are…
Jon is the national brand manager for Husqvarna Motorcycles and has been backing me for a few years now with a TC125 and FC250 to race dirt track. Jon…
You’ve just completed two rounds of a world championship on a bike you’d never seen before with a rider who’d never ridden in the class, how did it go?…
