Yamaha XS750: Timid triple
From our Old Bike Archives – Issue 86 – first published in 2020. Story: Jim Scaysbrook • Photos: Michael Andrews, OBA archives. Yamaha itself could hardly imagine the success enjoyed by the three-cylinder 850cc engine […]
Len Atlee
Tracks in Time: Moorebank
Story: Jim Scaysbrook • Photos: Alec Fisher, Michael Andrews, Greg Heath In the early post-WW2 years, the now-densely populated southern and western suburbs of Sydney were dotted with scrambles courses: Holdsworthy, Glenfield and the Southern Districts […]
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, […]
Z1 Kawasaki: New York steak… well done.
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 […]
The Henderson Matchless: Home-spun hero
What started as a Gold Star BSA and evolved to a Matchless G50-engined Norton, eventually became the 4-valve Henderson G50 – a mighty quick single. Story: Jim Scaysbrook • Photos: Bill Forsyth, Dick Darby, Gary Reid, […]
Len Atlee: Quite a career
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 […]
Chesterfield Superbike Series: Part 1
These days, the term Superbike has slipped into the language as a definitive term just like Biro or Hoover. It proliferated in Europe and particularly America in the mid 1970s, but make no mistake, Superbike […]
