Highly modified 1000cc four-stroke engines in production bikes had by 1980 brought vast quantities of power. But even heavily altered roadbike frames couldn’t cope with the increased…
Keith Stacker began racing motorcycles when he was 17. A year later he won the 1954 250cc Australian Hill Climb Championship on a BSA that was almost as…
You’ve had a career as a technician spanning five decades and everything from domestic series, GPs, IoM TT, WorldSBK and even a year of World Motocross. Any chance of…
By 1990, the Australian Safari had become the most notorious motorsport broadcast on Japanese TV, with millions of viewers in their tiny city abodes enthralled by a phalanx…
Ducati’s ground-breaking 851 superbike was born in a great period of change in the mid-1980s, both for the Italian company and world motorcycle racing. A takeover by Cagiva had…
Where are you headed? I’m driving from our Gold Coast base to Wagga for a round of the NSW Amcross series. It’s a great event run on…
Suppose there was a racing machine that did just 26 laps in one weekend under its intended rider, yet won two Australian Grand Prix races and set…
Questions asked at parties: number nine: “Do motorcycle grand prix racers get paid millions like F1 drivers?” My reply’s been the same for years. Racing…
To this day, I can remember the face-off between US President John F. Kennedy and Soviet Union leader Nikita Khrushchev in the early 1960s and how my school had prepared…
Pounding through the powder on a crisp winter’s day aboard a motocross bike is now what dreams are made of. But three years ago I’d never even…
What a crazy weekend and what a crazy couple of months our Toby Price Motorsport Team had preparing the truck for our Iron Man Double attempt at…
Now the hoo-haa surrounding Harry’s wedding to Meghan is dying down, let’s talk about his brother’s looming crisis. Prince William is in stand-off mode with wife Kate…
