At the end of 1964, a 22-year-old Italian racer was summoned to the Meccanica Verghera factory in Lombardy. When the boss of MV called, you answered.
At the onset of the Great Depression, 27-year-old Phil Irving was drafting parts for a diesel engine when he encountered the motorcycle that was to change his…
Normally my sights are set on what challenges and goals lie ahead, not the past. However, now that I’ve announced my retirement after 16 years of top-level Australian and…
Our competitiveness started early. When we were about 10 and 12, our dad bought a second dirtbike. Until that point we’d been sharing an old DT175, taking it…
Trent Lean’s dirtbike career spans almost four decades, from his first motocross on a Suzuki RM125 at Barleigh Ranch (now MX Central) to his final Yamaha Australian Off-Road…
Motovudu riding coach (and 500 GP winner) Simon Crafar helped out a lot. He let me stay with his family and took me around Spain a little with his…
You’re a household name to bike fans in Australia, but people might not know you’re also a YouTube sensation… If you watch the way I ride that BMW at…
There are two times you really want to know whether a bike’s frame is straight: when you’re buying, or after you have crashed. Sometimes the symptoms can be difficult…
As we slithered around the 90-degree corner, the back straight of New Zealand’s Pukekohe circuit unfolded. All one kilometre of it, which eventually ends in a 50km/h hairpin.
Troy Bayliss needs no introduction to Superbike race fans but his re-introduction to Australian Superbike racing for a full season in 2018, at the ripe old age of…
Greg Pretty sits inside the concrete wall at Bathurst’s GTX Bend, sipping reflectively on a steel tin of Carlton Draught while he fiddles with the ring-pull clip (photo at…
