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 […]
Story: Jim Scaysbrook • Photos: Keith Ward, Dennis Quinlan, Keith Bryen, Jim Scaysbrook “The G45 was very simply a touring motorcycle, anything but inspiring.” These are the words of Australian international racer, the late Keith Bryen, […]
Story: Jim Scaysbrook • Photos: Photosmith.com.au , Jim Scaysbrook, Doug Fraser archives Doug Fraser is a BSA man from way back. In the fledgling days of historic racing he campaigned a very rapid B33 BSA and was particularly […]
Story: Jim Scaysbrook • Photos: Sue Scaysbrook One of just 50 produced, the 750GT is the rarest of all the MV Agusta fours. When the much-anticipated Milan Motorcycle Show opened on 3rd December 1950, it confirmed […]