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The Arai 500 1979-1988: A brave experiment

January 31, 2026

From our Old Bike Archives – Issue 101 – first published in 2022. Story: Jim Scaysbrook • Photos: Phil Foster, Lou Martin, John Ford, Jeff Nield, Michael Andrews, Leon Faivre. The Easter Bathurst races had […]

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Two litres of sheer terror.

September 20, 2019

We’ve met Mark Walker before. In Issue 12 we got acquainted with his humungous creation, Big Ned. Now, here’s one he prepared earlier… What was originally known as the MW Special came into being because […]

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