Story: Rennie Scaysbrook • Photography: Jim Scaysbrook, Dave Aquilina, Keith Muir The Aprilia RS250 represents the pinnacle of grand prix motorcycles for the street and is a throwback to the days of premix, expansion chambers and […]
Story and photos: Jim Scaysbrook • Period photos: Lindsay McKay To find a motorcycle sold new in 1974 that is still in absolutely immaculate condition, just as it was when it rolled off the showroom floor, […]
Story Jim Scaysbrook and Lars Glerup • Photos Independent Observations, James Jubb, Antony Gullick, Gaven Dall’Osto, Michael Andrews. Honda has built over 100 million variants of the C100 Step Through. Yet in a manufacturing life of […]
Story: Dennis Quinlan and Jim Scaysbrook • Photos: Dennis Quinlan archives. Could the Velocette Model O have saved the company? It had everything going for it, but the timing wasn’t especially good. When Velocette decided to […]
Steve Tonkin has been building very special classic bikes to order for over 20 years, with around 100 different examples to date. Currently, his work is focussed on what is called the Tonkin Tornado – […]
Ballarat is the only Australian city to be listed on the International Historic Cities register. Everywhere you go in Ballarat (or Ballaart to be more correct – from the aboriginal Balla-arat meaning resting place), are […]
Story: Keith Hamilton • Photos: Jim Scaysbrook and Glenda Roach When Keith Hamilton was given a ‘sad collection of parts’ from which to reconstruct a 1905 Rex, he found the pile also contained large lumps of […]
Story: Transcribed and edited from an interview with Peter Drakeford in 2007. Photos: Rob Lewis, Bob Cann, Flood archives, OBA archives. These days, monocularity (the state of having vision in only one eye) virtually debars anyone […]
Story and photos: Jim Scaysbrook Straddle a Honda CB750 today and it seems like a nice compact package, certainly not overly large by current standards. Yet when it was released in 1969, the media applied […]
By the time the legendary motorcycle designer Val Page arrived in 1925, Ariel had already been around, in one form or another, for the best part of half a century. Charles Sangster and his son […]
