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OBA Issue 13
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Altona Circuit: Short lived and sweet

April 26, 2019

Today, Cherry Lake is a pleasant expanse of water with abundant bird life, with a paved cycling/walking track running around the perimeter. Look closely at the edges of the paving and in spots, you will […]

OBA Issue 7

Longford. Fast, furious, friendly.

February 8, 2019

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 […]

OBA Issue 30

Lobethal – Big, bad and plenty fast

November 30, 2018

When it comes to road circuits, Lobethal had it all. Bumps, jumps, bridges and unforgiving corners through the hills east of Adelaide. Lobethal, in the Adelaide Hills, is half a world away from the former […]

OBA Issue 41

Amaroo Park – Paradise Lost

November 9, 2018

A road racing circuit, motocross track, tar hill climb, oiled-dirt short circuit (and briefly, a speedway). And less than an hour from Sydney CBD. A dream? No, for 35 years, this was Amaroo Park; the […]

OBA Issue 55

Agro in Assen – Riders Strike of 1955

October 12, 2018

Saturday July 30th, 1955 was a tumultuous day in the history of motorcycle Grand Prix racing. For a bunch of Australasians, it marked a watershed in their careers. It’s a tough life being an international […]

OBA Issue 39

The Crafers TT: Storm in a teacup – March 15th, 1947

August 24, 2018

Up in the well-to-do Adelaide Hills, the teacups were rattling one weekend in 1947. “A less-likely venue for motorcycle racing is hard to image”. These are the words of Doug Voss, keen student of the […]

OBA Issue 24

Hume Weir – The valley of the kings

June 15, 2018

Race tracks have been crammed into some unlikely places, but few as unlikely as the site of the circuit built in 1959 in an old quarry which sat in the shadow of the dam wall […]

OBA Issue 8

Bandiana Army Camp –  The blast around the barracks

May 18, 2018

Back in 1954, excitement amongst the motorcycling fraternity was at fever pitch with the confirmation that the works Gilera duo of dashing English World Champion Geoff Duke and Irishman Reg Armstrong had agreed to an […]

1959 Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix

1959 Australian Grand Prix, Florida Gardens Estate – The not-so Grand Prix

March 12, 2018

The most remarkable thing about the 1959 Australian Grand Prix, held on Sunday July 26 at the partly-finished Florida Gardens Estate residential development at what is now part of Broadbeach Waters in the heart of […]

Catalina Park opening meeting, 1965.

Catalina Park – Grand Prix de Gully

March 12, 2018

Circuits come and go. Some are revered, others quickly forgotten. Catalina Park, in a dreary gully at Katoomba in the NSW Blue Mountains, is an example of the latter. A more hazardous concoction of made-for-racing […]

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