ISDT Jawas: Bananas and other forbidden fruit
From our Old Bike Archives – Issue 93 – first published in 2021. Story and photos Peter Drakeford The International Six Day Trial was the pinnacle of the off-road world in the 1970s, capturing the […]
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Stone Axe reliable: A pair of MZs.
From our Old Bike Archives – Issue 97 – first published in 2021. Story and photos: Peter Drakeford I’ve always been taken by the legendary hard men of the Communist nations. Their dedication and training […]
ROKON: Original thinking… an enduro experiment.
From our Old Bike Archives – Issue 99 – first published in 2022. Story: Peter Drakeford • Photographs: Peter Drakeford, OBA archives. ROKON was a little-known US manufacturer of unconventional off road two-wheel drive, fat […]
Tim Gibbes: Off-road trailblazer
The trail to England had been blazed comprehensively by aspiring Australian and New Zealand road racers and speedway riders since the mid 1920s, but the same was not the case for the relatively new (mainly […]
Roy East – A great all-rounder
Few Australians tried to make a living racing motocross in Europe in the 1960s – and even fewer succeeded. Among those who plied the tracks of England, France, Belgium, Germany, Holland and the Iron Curtain countries was Sydney’s Roy East. As Paul […]
