The Old Bike Australasia Club Directory is your go-to listing of the huge number of specialist and enthusiast motorcycle clubs throughout Australia and New Zealand. From Adler to Yamaha there’s a club that will cater […]
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 […]
Circuits come and go. Some are revered, others quickly forgotten. Catalina Park, in a dreary gully at Katoomba in the NSW Blue Mountains, is an example of the latter. A more hazardous concoction of made-for-racing […]
It was known as the Suicide Saucer, the Bowl of Death, or the Murder Drome, and for good reason. Many riders (including racing cyclists) lost their lives on the concrete banking before its demise, but […]
If only BSA could have put aside their propensity to dither and put their new triple into production earlier, things may have been a lot different… Considering that the BSA/Triumph Group was hardly in robust […]
Dr. Joseph Ehrlich, who was born in Vienna and died in Britain in 2003 aged 89, has been described as a “volatile man” and “difficult”, among other things. But there is no disputing that in […]
One thing never changes in top-level motorcycle racing; works rides are hard to find. The fact hasn’t deterred scores of Australian and New Zealand riders fighting their way into the big time, always with the […]
As the war clouds disappeared from the horizon, members of Melbourne’s Preston Motorcycle Club began casting around for a suitable site on which to unleash six years of pent-up need for speed. About eight kilometres […]
