
Ray Quincey: Meteoric rise, hard fall.
From our Old Bike Archives – Issue 95 – first published in 2021. Story: Jim Scaysbrook • Photos: Rob Lewis, Michael Andrews, Jeff Nield, Maurice Austin. Being the son of a famous father can be […]
From our Old Bike Archives – Issue 95 – first published in 2021. Story: Jim Scaysbrook • Photos: Rob Lewis, Michael Andrews, Jeff Nield, Maurice Austin. Being the son of a famous father can be […]
From our Old Bike Archives – Issue 98 – first published in 2022. Story: Jim Scaysbrook • Photos: Peter Jones, Rob Lewis, Gary Reid, Damian Cook, John Ford, Karel Zegers. After years of domination by […]
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 […]
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 […]
It seems everyone was building 750s in the early ‘seventies, but few were as pretty as this one. Story and photos: Jim Scaysbrook • Original photos: Michael Andrews and Jeff Nield. By the time Fabio Taglioni’s […]
Beginning life as Ken Blake’s ride-to-work machine, this 1964 Bonneville went on to a string of victories including taking out consecutive Australian TTs. Story: Jim Scaysbrook with much assistance from John Lord, Glen Rose and […]
Towards the end of the 1960s, a group of callow youths from the south of Sydney, though somewhat intimidated by the stories they’d heard, decided to take the plunge and ride their shiny new Japanese […]