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Where British Iron Lives On: Inside Classic Style Australia

July 10, 2026

There’s a particular kind of magic that happens when you push open the door to a warehouse full of classic British motorcycles. The smell of oil and leather. The gleam of hand-polished tanks catching the […]

Good Gear

A revolutionary ignition for classic Superbike performance

December 17, 2025

On The Dyno: Presented by OEM.DIGITAL Pty Ltd Once in a while, a new product comes along that’s a true game-changer. It turns the conventional wisdom on its head. Think of the iPhone: it wasn’t […]

Bikes

Honda CBX 1000: The wide one

September 10, 2021

Story and photos: Jim Scaysbrook • Technical assistance: Jim Merrick, Tom Battison. Faced with stiffening opposition from all fronts for the title of King of the Road, Honda went for the coup d’état. December 1977. […]

Bikes

Z1 Kawasaki: New York steak… well done.

August 14, 2020

It was late 1972 when the Z1 arrived in Australia, initially in very small numbers. But the Z1 story had begun almost six years previously at Kawasaki’s Akashi factory in central Japan; the task being […]

OBA Issue 49
Riders

Peggy Hyde: Rebel with a cause

May 1, 2020

Unfazed by reputations, officialdom, or rules, Peggy Hyde showed that gender is no limiting factor in motorcycle racing. Talk to Peggy Hyde today and it is immediately evident that little has changed in her approach […]

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