The Rotary Club
Story: Jim Scaysbrook • Technical assistance: Paul Reed As the 1970s dawned, it seemed just about every major manufacturer was either working on or thinking about producing a motorcycle powered by a variation of the […]
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Jack Findlay: Don’t call me Cyril
Story: Jim Scaysbrook • Photos: Karel Zegers, OBA archives Mike Hailwood once told me that around the original 14 kilometre Spa Francorchamps circuit, there was no one better than Cyril John ‘Jack’ Findlay. That’s high praise […]
Indian Velocette Thruxton: One man’s vision
Story: Jim Scaysbrook • Photos: Dennis Quinlan and Jim Scaysbrook Magazine owner, prolific motorcycle and automotive book publisher, entrepreneur, ex-racer, ex-motorcycle dealer; Floyd Clymer was never afraid of a challenge. He even wrote a book instructing […]
Honda Gold Wing: A wing and a prayer
Story and photos Jim Scaysbrook The longest running motorcycle ever to come out of Japan made its public bow in 1974, and over 40 years later is still going strong, at least in name. Ever […]
Tracks in Time: Moorebank
Story: Jim Scaysbrook • Photos: Alec Fisher, Michael Andrews, Greg Heath In the early post-WW2 years, the now-densely populated southern and western suburbs of Sydney were dotted with scrambles courses: Holdsworthy, Glenfield and the Southern Districts […]
Böhmerland: Bohemian Rhapsody
Story: Jim Scaysbrook • Photos: OBA Archives A truly unique motorcycle with a split personality; the Böhmerland was the product of the fertile imagination of a Bohemian engineer, incorporating features designed to allow the machine […]
Tre e mezzo – Moto Morini style
Story and photos: Jim Scaysbrook Three and a half – that’s the unlikely appellation for what has become a classic of ‘seventies Italian design flair. In racing circles, the name Moto Morini will forever be associated […]
Suzuki GSX1100: Four-valve flyer
Story: Jim Scaysbrook • Photos: Sue Scaysbrook “The fastest standard motorcycle in the world”. That’s not a bad opener in any sales pitch, and it came at a time when motorcycling was all about speed, power […]
Tony McAlpine: The wild colonial boy
Story: Jim Scaysbrook • Photos: Byron Gunther, Trevor Evans, Keith Bryen Wallace Anthony, or just plain ‘Tony’ McAlpine, died on the Queensland Gold Coast on September 26th 2005, aged 84. With his passing went perhaps […]
Tracks in Time: Mount Druitt, NSW
Story: Jim Scaysbrook • Photographs Frank Shepherd, Bill Tricker, Charles Rice • Archival assistance: John Wicks Even though it closed almost fifty years ago, Mount Druitt is inevitably mentioned whenever a bunch of old timers get […]
