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Month: October 2021

Bikes

Tre e mezzo – Moto Morini style

October 29, 2021

Story and photos: Jim Scaysbrook Three and a half – that’s the unlikely appellation for what has become a classic of ‘seventies Italian design flair.  In racing circles, the name Moto Morini will forever be associated […]

Out'n'About

The Grom Motorcycle Museum: Vransko, Slovenia

October 22, 2021

  Story & photos: Jim Scaysbrook In the tiny country of Slovenia, which has been invaded, annexed, carved up and pushed around for centuries, it’s a miracle anything has survived. Almost destroyed in the bloody […]

Bikes

Suzuki GSX1100: Four-valve flyer

October 15, 2021

Story: Jim Scaysbrook • Photos: Sue Scaysbrook “The fastest standard motorcycle in the world”. That’s not a bad opener in any sales pitch, and it came at a time when motorcycling was all about speed, power […]

Riders

Tony McAlpine: The wild colonial boy

October 8, 2021

Story: Jim Scaysbrook • Photos: Byron Gunther, Trevor Evans, Keith Bryen Wallace Anthony, or just plain ‘Tony’ McAlpine, died on the Queensland Gold Coast on September 26th 2005, aged 84. With his passing went perhaps […]

Tracks

Tracks in Time: Mount Druitt, NSW

October 1, 2021

Story: Jim Scaysbrook • Photographs Frank Shepherd, Bill Tricker, Charles Rice • Archival assistance: John Wicks Even though it closed almost fifty years ago, Mount Druitt is inevitably mentioned whenever a bunch of old timers get […]

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