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The Swann Insurance International Road Race Series – Part 1: 1978-83

The idea of spending the off-season racing in Australia was attractive enough to riders trapped in wintry Europe, but it took decades to establish a true annual series. For eleven years, the Swann International Series [...]
Riders

George Scott – Best in the West

Gene Pitney once warbled, “East is east, and west is west, and never the twain shall meet.” For years, the maxim certainly applied to motorcycle sport in Western Australia, because until the advent of affordable [...]
Out'n'About

2018 International Festival of Speed

Join Jim Scaysbrook at the 2018 QBE International Festival of Speed at Sydney Motorsport Park for a look at the bikes and stars that make this one of the Southern Hemisphere’s most popular motorcycle racing [...]
Bikes

The Ultimate Street Fighter – Mark Walker’s “Big Ned”

“I’ve never had a job. I just work on motorbikes.” This is a somewhat curious statement from a somewhat complex man. Mark Walker, by his own admission, has been around motorcycles all his life. A [...]
Bikes

Bultaco Metralla – Bully for you

By all accounts, Francisco Xavier Bulto (also known as ‘Paco’) was a formidable man with a typically robust Latin personality, and he loved motorcycle racing with a passion shared by legions of his countrymen. It [...]

The Swann Insurance International Road Race Series – Part 1: 1978-83

by Old Bike in Feature

The idea of spending the off-season racing in Australia was attractive enough to riders trapped in wintry Europe, but it took decades to establish a true annual series. For eleven years, the Swann International Series [...]

The Swann Insurance International Road Race Series – Part 1: 1978-83

April 20, 2018

The idea of spending the off-season racing in Australia was attractive enough to riders trapped in wintry Europe, but it took decades to establish a true annual series. For eleven years, the Swann International Series [...]
George Scott – Best in the West

April 13, 2018
Geoff Duke – The Duke’s Crusade

March 21, 2018
Garry Thomas – One fierce competitor

March 21, 2018

1959 Australian Grand Prix, Florida Gardens Estate – The not-so Grand Prix

March 12, 2018

The most remarkable thing about the 1959 Australian Grand Prix, held on Sunday July 26 at the partly-finished Florida Gardens Estate residential development at what is now part of Broadbeach Waters in the heart of [...]
Catalina Park – Grand Prix de Gully

March 12, 2018
The Murder Drome

March 12, 2018
Darley Days

February 5, 2018

The Ultimate Street Fighter – Mark Walker’s “Big Ned”

March 21, 2018

“I’ve never had a job. I just work on motorbikes.” This is a somewhat curious statement from a somewhat complex man. Mark Walker, by his own admission, has been around motorcycles all his life. A [...]
Bultaco Metralla – Bully for you

March 21, 2018
Late thrust – 1969 BSA Rocket 3

February 9, 2018
Splitting the single – 1948 EMC 350cc

February 9, 2018

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The Swann Insurance International Road Race Series – Part 1: 1978-83

George Scott – Best in the West

2018 International Festival of Speed

The Ultimate Street Fighter – Mark Walker’s “Big Ned”

Bultaco Metralla – Bully for you

The Swann Insurance International Road Race Series – Part 1: 1978-83

The Ultimate Street Fighter – Mark Walker’s “Big Ned”

Late thrust – 1969 BSA Rocket 3

Splitting the single – 1948 EMC 350cc

The Swann Insurance International Road Race Series – Part 1: 1978-83

Herb Superb

Garry Thomas – One fierce competitor

Darley Days

Catalina Park – Grand Prix de Gully

The Murder Drome

Whats On

The Swann Insurance International Road Race Series – Part 1: 1978-83

1959 Australian Grand Prix, Florida Gardens Estate – The not-so Grand Prix

The Ultimate Street Fighter – Mark Walker’s “Big Ned”