Ken Kavanagh: Australian motorcycling legend dies
Ken Kavanagh, the first Australian to win a World Championship Motorcycle Grand Prix and the first to win an Isle of Man TT, has died in Italy, aged 96. Kavanagh left his native Melbourne in […]
Month: November 2019
Suzuki Colleda: This is the one!
Australian motorcycle buyers of the 1950s and ‘60s were treated to many of the first Japanese offerings with the Colleda TA 250 being one of these now very rare examples. Colleda is a Japanese word […]
BSA B66: Get your kicks on the B66
In OBA 10 we featured Doug Fraser’s remarkable Empire Twin. Now it has a brother…the B66. It has to be shared right here and right now: the B66 is the best motorcycle BSA never made, and […]
Hartley needed a big heart: Hartley Vale Circuit NSW
Six kilometres of flat-out dirt was a test of the brave in the 1930s…. and you can still try it any weekend. Reaching Lithgow, the first stop over the blue Mountains from Sydney, was an […]
John Dunscombe and The Flying Bedstead
They called him The Professor, and his acolytes were numerous in the fertile area for sidecar racers, Maitland, near Newcastle. John Dunscombe, who died in 2005, was a wiry little chap who lived in a […]
Hunter Piccaninny: Melbourne-made miniature marvel.
In the early 1950s, the Ultra Lightweight class was a hot-bed of two strokes, but one hand-built DOHC model could run with the best of them. The story of the Hunter Piccaninny really has to […]
