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AJS 500cc V-4: From myth to metal

May 27, 2022

From our Old Bike Archives – Issue 75 – first published in 2018. The remarkable story of one man’s dream to recreate what could have been one of the world’s most desirable motorcycles. • Story and photos […]

Riders

Tony McAlpine: The wild colonial boy

October 8, 2021

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 […]

Bikes

1967 Matchless G15CSR: Late comer

May 29, 2021

Story and photos: Jim Scaysbrook. To the many purists, it was a sad day when Associated Motor Cycles, owners of AJS, Matchless, Francis Barnett, James and Norton, shifted the last-named marque from its traditional home […]

Bikes

Stevens – The before and after of A.J.S.

April 30, 2021

Story: Jim Scaysbrook • Photos: Jim Scaysbrook and the Stevens family collection.  Wolverhampton is famous as the home of the AJS marque, but there is much more to that story, including an Australian connection. “This engine […]

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Doug Voss: The long way to the Earls Court Show

February 26, 2021

Few people have ridden overland from India to England. Even fewer would still own the bike they rode, 58 years after the ride, and still use it regularly. Such a man is Doug Voss, 85 […]

Riders

24hr Reliability Trial – Eight decades of exceptional endurance

October 30, 2020

The rain eases a few minutes short of midnight but has already saturated the small knot of officials – their timesheets a sodden mess. A puff of wind does little to disperse the fog as […]

Riders

Harry Hinton: A Racing Life

August 28, 2020

The Isle of Man mountain course is unique in its sheer abundance of natural hazards, which are rarely tolerant of errors of judgement or mistakes. Those who have taken on the Mountain respect it, for […]

OBA Issue 19
Riders

George Scott – Best in the West

April 13, 2018

Gene Pitney once warbled, “East is east, and west is west, and never the twain shall meet.” For years, the maxim certainly applied to motorcycle sport in Western Australia, because until the advent of affordable […]

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