I wonder if the same rules apply in our modern, liberated and politically correct times? I wonder if it is safe, or even appropriate, to continue the sexist…
I sat in the shed and weighed up my options. The 2001 Triumph Bonneville I’d converted into a street tracker a few years back was the…
I think some Aussies don’t realise how good we have it Down Under. I’m not talking about living conditions, natural beauty or even weather, which are all top shelf; I’m…
There was a signal demonstration of the truth about modern racing in the desert night at Qatar. No, not the sheer hubris of running…
What a start to the year it has been! By now most of you would know I’m racing as a privateer in this year’s Australian Superbike Championship,…
It’s Proud and Happy time again. As the 2017 MotoGP season assembled again, a great tide of obvious cliché swept through the paddock, as one rider after another spoke intimately…
For many of us former seventies longhairs, summer begins with the AMCN International Island Classic at Phillip Island. It continues with the International Festival of Speed in…
There’s always a frisson when a new manufacturer dives headlong into the top level of racing. Will they make it? Or will the waters be too deep?…
Chas Hern- As a kid I didn’t do the traditional family holidays, but in saying that I was never home either. I remember getting hot jam doughnuts at…
I am still in a state of shock and disbelief as to the support I have been given leading up to this season. The end of 2016…
Wings are banned. Progress has been jammed. MotoGP has taken another backward step away from being a genuine sphere of valuable engineering research. Or has it? Perhaps the opposite ……
So who was the original 70s biker chick? In 2016 the models sashayed down the Paris Fashion Week runway, setting the catwalk on fire with their leather…