You’ve had a very different timeline in bike racing; where did it start? I started off on a Kawasaki Trail Boss, a 100cc farm bike. Then I…
I am still in a state of shock and disbelief as to the support I have been given leading up to this season. The end of 2016…
Wings are banned. Progress has been jammed. MotoGP has taken another backward step away from being a genuine sphere of valuable engineering research. Or has it? Perhaps the opposite ……
So who was the original 70s biker chick? In 2016 the models sashayed down the Paris Fashion Week runway, setting the catwalk on fire with their leather…
Clear out the back of the garage and you’ll find you own at least two copies of the Guinness Book of Records. For almost three decades this annual tome was…
The biggest change in the history of road racing? Surely it was in the 70s, when the sight of pudding basin helmets and black leathers worn by stern-faced…
What got you into bikes? As a Bathurst local, I’d been going to the Easter races since I could walk. I started riding trailbikes and rode enduros,…
“I want to thank my Mum and Dad, the flaggies and volunteers for today.” At age 10 and the next seven years this would…
It takes time to get to know somebody new. Things that first attract you might, before too much longer, prove irritating instead. A smile, perhaps, that…
It’s said to be Soichiro Honda who originally coined the phrase ‘racing improves the breed’ and never has the influence of on-track activity on showroom models been as…
Tell us about your Aussie memories? Australia is one of my favourite places: it’s where I first rode the (HRC) 250 and 500 together at the old Surfers Paradise racetrack.
Sixty years ago this Easter, Bob Mitchell won the sidecar race at Mount Panorama on a Norton 500, becoming the only man to win the unlimited three-wheel…
