Bet many of you thought you would never see a female World Champion, no matter how small the bikes got? Bet many of you always thought that there would be at…
Marc Marquez is rich and famous beyond his dreams. Or his needs. That’s what comes with being a five-time MotoGP world champion and perhaps the ultimate risk taker in the…
I’m back home in Australia after an awesome season in the WorldSBK SSP300 championship. When I last wrote for AMCN I was two races into the season and struggling with…
There are precious few examples of men who were motorcycle racers and merchant seamen. John Warrian was one. Melburnian Patrick Bruce was another, with the added memory of half a…
At the outbreak of World War II, Kevin Rohrlach was of an age where he was mesmerised by machinery and was already recycling; disused farm implements, wire, leather strapping, bolts,…
It’s official. Retro motorcycles are a market niche that is here to stay. Many of us former Seventies longhairs were sceptical of this sales segment when it suddenly got legs…
The trouble with writing about Rossi is that you never know quite what he is going to do next. The Doctor is massively talented, ruthlessly charming, reliably Sunday-fast, and infused…
After getting the pistons moving from their partially seized state, she’s got a belly full of fresh oil and a new filter after discovering there wasn’t any water in the…
I’m a competitive bugger. Staring into the eyes of defeat isn’t something I walk away from It’s been one of the most competitive seasons of ASBK in recent memory, with…
Phil O’Brien had a great time on the Continental Circus in 1968-69. He returned with a son born in the Isle of Man, a swag of stories and the inspiration…
In the mid-1980s production-based racing was booming around the world. It came in many forms and with varying eligibility rules, the most radical of which involved ‘silhouette’ classes for highly-modified…
Ray Curtis hung up his leathers almost half a lifetime ago. He was racing at Oran Park’s 1973 Christmas Twilight Meeting when the Campbelltown Police sought him out to deliver…
