Saville Whiting Esq., of Melbourne, was dissatisfied with the handling and comfort afforded by pre-WW1 motorcycle design. He had been a motorcyclist since 1905 and felt that a proper chassis should be complete with springing […]
Graeme Carless’ world is black and white – he’s a BMW man through and through. “I had the usual stuff; Enfields, Nortons, Triumphs, then I got hold of a BM and I thought, this is […]
BMWs were not particularly common in Australia in the 1930s, with our entrenched tastes for British and American brands. But down in Geelong, it was a different story, thanks mainly to the efforts of L.F. […]
As far back as the early 1950s, little MV road racers were seen in Australia, albeit in very limited numbers. The SOHC 125 singles and the later DOHC models were very competitive for a short […]
There are very few monuments dedicated to racing motorcyclists in the world, and in Australia, perhaps only one. It stands in a park on Punt Road, Richmond, in inner Melbourne, and today, attracts few glances […]
It’s been nearly 40 years since Longford, 30 minutes south of Launceston, hosted its last motor race. But until a few years ago, you could still drive around most of the public roads that made […]
In 1999 the Guggenheim Museum in New York staged its now iconic exhibition, “The Art of the Motorcycle”, and in the series of machines from the 1970s, the Laverda 750 SFC was a standout, not […]
You would be hard-pressed to find anyone more comfortable with life than Steve Roberts, a man who has had a hand in more successful projects that you would think possible. For someone who arrived in […]
The combination of Sandy McCrae and his self-built Vincent specials was virtually indomitable, particularly at Bathurst. His friend and occasional passenger Gordon Gillies recounts his recollections… I was riding in a tram one day in […]
For six years, Suzuki defied conventional wisdom when everyone else was going four-stroke. What the release of the Honda CB750 in 1969 created was not so much of a rush as a stampede, for this machine […]
