Beginning life as Ken Blake’s ride-to-work machine, this 1964 Bonneville went on to a string of victories including taking out consecutive Australian TTs. Story: Jim Scaysbrook with much assistance from John Lord, Glen Rose and […]
The Japanese factories wanted 350s for the booming US market. Yamaha got there first. Story and photos: Jim Scaysbrook Yamaha called their first 350 the YR-1 Grand Prix (at least they did in USA), which […]
What started as a Gold Star BSA and evolved to a Matchless G50-engined Norton, eventually became the 4-valve Henderson G50 – a mighty quick single. Story: Jim Scaysbrook • Photos: Bill Forsyth, Dick Darby, Gary Reid, […]
Australia’s flourishing Historic racing movement attracts a huge variety of esoteric bikes of all ages – many wonderful, a few occasionally weird. John Trease’s Harley Special might seem to those unaware of its improbable performance […]
“Like a leg of lamb” was one description of the shape of the 3.8 mile (6.1 km) public road circuit just outside the centre of Mildura. “Mighty fast” was another. In the local aboriginal Latje […]
Unfazed by reputations, officialdom, or rules, Peggy Hyde showed that gender is no limiting factor in motorcycle racing. Talk to Peggy Hyde today and it is immediately evident that little has changed in her approach […]
Like the black sheep of the family, the VR1000 superbike project is something that Harley prefers not to talk about. Hovering on the brink of corporate collapse, it seemed the once-proud marque of Ducati was […]
Towards the end of the 1960s, a group of callow youths from the south of Sydney, though somewhat intimidated by the stories they’d heard, decided to take the plunge and ride their shiny new Japanese […]
At a time when the world was shifting to triples and fours, a marriage of convenience produced an iconic British big twin. Launching a parallel twin sports bike in 1971, powered by an engine with […]
The publicity generated by reigning world champion Geoff Duke’s ‘Down Under’ tour in 1954/55 did not go unnoticed overseas. Duke made noises about a repeat performance for the summer season of 1955/56 but when this […]
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