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Stuart Avant: So close to stardom

From our Old Bike Archives – Issue 64 – first published in 2017. Story: Jim Scaysbrook • Photos: Rob Lewis, Phil Hall, Stan Shephard. Christchurch-born Stu Avant had talent to burn, but having a good time was equally [...]
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Honda VF750FD: Time for a change

By the late ‘seventies, Honda’s venerable across-the-frame four was looking a bit tired, at least in marketing terms. Inside the world’s biggest producer of motorcycles, it was time for a change. A V change. Leaving [...]
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1988 Gilera Nouvo Saturno Bialbero

Story and photos: Jim Scaysbrook An unlikely Japanese/Italian alliance resulted in the motorcycle that was both unusual and unique. For a once-great marque, Gilera, like most of the Italian motorcycle industry, was moribund by the [...]
Bikes

Norton Commando 850 Mk2A: The one that works

In that Shangri-la for classic bikes, the NSW Northern Rivers area, long-time Norton fan and OBA contributor Michael Robinson has fallen for a big twin. This is not the story of an amazing restoration, of [...]
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Vincent Series B ‘White’ Shadow: Back from the dead

From our back issues archive (Old Bike Australasia Issue 71) • Story: Jim Scaysbrook • Photos: Ian Falloon • From Stevenage to the States, to the Caribbean, and finally to Melbourne. That’s the journey undertaken by a [...]

Stealth vision from Kenwood

December 22, 2021

These days, so-called Dash Cams are vital pieces of equipment that are increasingly being used in cars and trucks. The information they record can be of great use for establishing insurance claims as well as [...]
More herbs for early Zeds

December 20, 2021
Inflation is a good thing

December 19, 2018
BK Performance expands

December 19, 2018

2022 Easter Bathurst Tour

February 22, 2022

10-17 April, 2022 – Based at NRMA Bathurst Panorama Holiday Park, NSW Presented by the Vintage Motorcycle Club of Australia (NSW) Inc., the Bathurst Easter Tour is on again for veteran, vintage and post-vintage motorcycles [...]
The Grom Motorcycle Museum: Vransko, Slovenia

October 22, 2021
The Temple of Ducati

August 20, 2021
1912 Dunlop Dispatch Relay

March 27, 2021

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