Amaroo Park and the Castrol Six Hour race epitomised the freewheeling Australia of the Seventies. In a setting almost like a Roman amphitheatre, the…
Words Peter Whitaker Photography AMCN archives The Dakar Rally may well have remained beyond Aussie horizons had not Hans Tholstrup and Tom Snooks devised the…
The first Honda Dream hit the showroom floor in 1957 when B&W took on the Australian distributorship. Shortly after, our local Lions Club held the Ryde Motor…
It was bound to happen sooner or later. You’re at your uncle’s digs and there it is, the mid-80s whatsimacallit you learned to ride on. Your uncle says…
When Reg Beauchamp and his mate Len Hyland first announced their intentions to ride around their home state on motorcycles, no one took much notice. For most Tasmanians,…
Words AMCN & Alan Cathcart Photography Kyoichi Nakamura & AC “We’ll supply and maintain the Tesi 1DR Corsa,” Bimota CEO Giuseppe Morri said…
Words Peter Whitaker Photography Independant Observations A history of the men who made motocross. In the years following WW2, motorcycle scrambles flourished across the south eastern…
Words & Photography Peter Whitaker Up in the Hunter Valley it was a time when Sunday afternoons in Autumn were set aside for solos, sidecars…
Words Darryl Flack Photography AMCN & DF archives When I signed up to be AMCN’s Sydney editor, little did I…
The 1982 season was a watershed moment in the 500cc Grand Prix world championship. It was the final year all four Japanese manufacturers including Yamaha went head-to-head in…
It’s late July 1949 in a still-rebuilding Europe and the Continental Circus has come to Gedinne in the south of Belgium, providing welcome entertainment. The…
Whenever Debbo’s name crops up the first recollection is of his tremendous laugh and, in an era when short circuit racers enjoyed regular meetings at Vineyard, Taree, Goulburn, Bungarribee,…
