Honey, I shrunk the Goldie!
We have met Phil Reeves before in the pages of OBA. He’s the chap with the insatiable appetite for BSA Bantams, to the point that his shed now holds around 35 examples of the little […]
Bikes
Spin Doctors: The Rotary Valve Cylinder Head
The rotary valve cylinder head has been around longer than the motorcycle, falling into, and out of favour on a regular basis. There’s a school of thought that says this system offers so many advantages […]
On yer bike, Constable.
Mal Grant turns the clock back more than a century to trace the introduction of the motorcycle to the Victorian Police Force. The story of Victoria’s police involvement with motorcycles can only begin with an […]
SD900 Ducati Darmah: An Alsatian in Tiger’s clothing
Friday night was pub night back in the seventies and early eighties. Our watering hole was the Old Commodore Hotel at Blues Point (North Sydney) where a bunch of us with a common interest in […]
Adler: The eagle still soars
While the production of the Adler (German for eagle) motorcycle stopped in 1957 when Grundig bought out the company to concentrate on office equipment, there remains a strong following for this 250cc two stroke twin […]
Remarkable Rex Tilbrook
There are more than 200 Australian motorcycle manufacturers scattered in the annals of history, stretching back to the earliest days of motorised transport, alas, now all gone. Perhaps the last was the Tilbrook, the work […]
AJW – A short lived speedway story
Arthur John Wheaton’s family company published school text books, but young Arthur was much more interested in motorcycles. Within the workshops of the printing business at Exeter, Arthur and his mate Harry Marks built a […]
BSA Bantam – One clever little rooster
Did everyone have a Bantam at some stage of their motorcycling experience? It would seem so – the ubiquitous green midgets were everywhere in the ‘50s – carrying mail, checking gas meters, shuffling backwards and […]
Ducati’s dinosaur: V4 Apollo 1260
In 2007 Ducati’s new 800cc desmosedici MotoGP racer, in the capable hands of young Casey Stoner, was the class of the grid, and its predecessor won the final race of the 990cc era ridden by […]
Suzuki T20 – Six speed sensation
‘Super Six’, ‘X6’, “Hustler’ – depending on what country you were in, the Suzuki T20, introduced in late 1965, went by many names. But quite simply, it was a sensational motorcycle – the first production […]
