I’ve had an unusual path to end up riding speedway. All I knew is I wanted to make motorcycle racing a career. I started racing dirtbikes when…
As one who likes to keep photographs of his food to himself, I believe that Faceplant is an invasion of privacy, Instaflap harmless but essentially very, very…
As the tarmac twisted into a clump of overhanging gum trees my field of vision telescoped into the corner’s apex. Seconds earlier I had been…
This year the latest-generation Michelins have had a huge influence on MotoGP results, and from Round 6 onwards will continue to do so… except in a different…
Melissa Bruce – Growing up, I was not the kid racer with doting helicopter parents. I was the kid that was destined to grow up a ‘failure’.
I’m having one of those love/hate relationships with single cylinder bikes at the moment – actually it’s a fair bit more hate than love. For what seemed like…
In fact, those aren’t the exact words Valentino Rossi chose to describe French parvenu Johann Zarco. But that’s only because he’s aware he needs to guard his words,…
The first will be a well-used Record brand engineer’s bench vice with raised letters on the side proudly proclaiming ‘Made in the UK’. That vice will probably have…
It was hard to ignore the kerfuffle when young property tycoon Tim Gurner suggested young Australians would have a better chance of getting into the housing market if they lightened…
I started racing BMX at the age of four, then motorbikes at seven. I competed in mini-khana, motocross and supercross. I started enduro at 16 and raced in…
Formula 1 car racing these days is cripplingly dull, overpriced, impersonal and irrelevant, an over-rated spectacle of lots of money following even more money round and round, with…
I was riding bicycles before I could walk and rode my first motorbike at the age of three. I played soccer from the age of five, but that only…
