Where did you find that explosive pace that gave you the 2018 IoM Senior win and title of world’s fastest road racer? Good weather for the…
It’s been a great year for me. It started with two race wins and the overall points score at the Phillip Island International Challenge (Davo’s result gave Team Australia their…
Scan a baby-boomer bike nut’s book shelf and you’ll likely see the name Vic Willoughby. His works included Classic Motorcycles, The Racing Motorcycle, Winning Racing Engines, Exotic Motorcycles – A…
We’ve all eyed off a bike that needs a bit of work; whether it’s your own bike that’s been damaged, a bike that’s been stored for a long period of…
Come the retirement of international sidecar superstars Bob Mitchell and Bernie Mack in the mid-1950s, Lindsay Urquhart was quick to identify the opportunities. With old mate Jim Craig in the…
As Appeared in AMCN magazine Vol 68 No 07 I’m really looking forward to the ASBK final at Phillip Island. The racing’s gone to another level this season in all…
BMW provided two of its then-new R1150 GS bikes, which became a bestseller for the German company after the ratings-winning, seven- episode TV series Long Way Round was…
MY LAST COLUMN about the 1980s got a few people talking about that decade. But here’s something they don’t want to talk about: what it cost to live back…
Between them, the New South Wales provincial towns of Goulburn and Bathurst had a firm grip on the major motorcycle race meetings when the sport was…
At the dawn of World Superbikes 30 years ago, Kiwi Ducati fanatic Dallas Rankine was tearing his hair out. “I bought the first available 851 Superbike…
The other day someone told me that by the end of this season I will have clocked up 700,000km in travel while racing in ASBK. It’s only…
As Australian tobacco advertising restrictions tightened throughout the 1980s, ‘big tobacco’ poured more and more money into motorsport, with the consequence that Wayne Gardner’s 1987 World Championship was…
