The 1964 Yamaha YDS-3
Power to the People Story: Jim Scaysbrook Photos: Dick Darby, Jim Scaysbrook, Sean Goldhawk, JMS archives The stout little twin – the YD-1 – that Yamaha introduced in 1957 was a truly significant event in […]
Articles by Jim Scaysbrook
Geoff Duke – The Duke’s Crusade
Imagine if Valentino Rossi decided to spend the European winter earning a bit of pocket money by taking in a series of races in Australia with his works state-of-the art Yamaha Moto GP weapon. A […]
Garry Thomas – One fierce competitor
Garry Thomas will be 68 this year. And 68 is the riding number with which he will always be associated in a career that encompassed virtually every form of motorcycling racing bar speedway, as well […]
1959 Australian Grand Prix, Florida Gardens Estate – The not-so Grand Prix
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
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 […]
The Murder Drome
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 […]
Late thrust – 1969 BSA Rocket 3
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 […]
Splitting the single – 1948 EMC 350cc
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 […]
Keith Bryen – Racing in his blood
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 […]
Darley Days
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 […]
