Murray Tainton: Quite a career
From our Old Bike Archives – Issue 102 – first published in 2022. Story and photos: Jim Scaysbrook Tainton is a name that has been around Victorian motorcycling circles for decades – Murray and his […]
Bert Flood
Jack Walters – Sponsor extraordinaire
From our Old Bike Archives – Issue 86. Story: Peter Laverty • Photos: Keith Ward, Barry Smith, Rob Lewis, Dick Darby. The face of Australian motorcycle racing would look considerably different if not for Jack Walters, who […]
Geoff Taylor: Across the Great Divide
From our Old Bike Archives – Issue 76 – first published in 2018. Story: Jim Scaysbrook • Photos: Rob Lewis, Michael Andrews, Geoff Neild, Merv Whitelaw, Taylor archives. It’s not uncommon to graduate from motocross to road racing, but […]
Bert Flood: “Everything’s a fluke that happens to me”.
Story: Transcribed and edited from an interview with Peter Drakeford in 2007. Photos: Rob Lewis, Bob Cann, Flood archives, OBA archives. These days, monocularity (the state of having vision in only one eye) virtually debars anyone […]
Bryan Hindle: One quick chemist
Story: Jim Scaysbrook • Photos: Merv Whitelaw, John Hiscock, Rob Lewis, Dick Darby, Greg Heath, Ken Duperouzel. Is there a stereotype motorcycle racer? If so, Bryan Hindle probably would not have fitted the bill; teetotal, […]
Tracks in Time: Flinders Naval Depot
As post-war public road closures for racing became more and more difficult, the search was on for suitable stretches of tarmac where motorcycles could be raced in anger. East of Melbourne, the bike brigade found […]
