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1937 New Imperial Model 76 de Luxe: A real survivor

October 31, 2025

From our Old Bike Archives – Issue 100 – first published in 2022. Story: Jim Scaysbrook • Photos: Roger Ralston, Jim Scaysbrook, OBA archives. Twice written off, this rare New Imperial has managed to survive […]

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Tracks in Time: Mount Druitt, NSW

October 1, 2021

Story: Jim Scaysbrook • Photographs Frank Shepherd, Bill Tricker, Charles Rice • Archival assistance: John Wicks Even though it closed almost fifty years ago, Mount Druitt is inevitably mentioned whenever a bunch of old timers get […]

Riders

Ray Curtis: A born showman

December 18, 2020

Spectacular and successful throughout his long and varied career, Ray Curtis never had top machinery, but that didn’t stop him always putting on a show for the paying public. Story: Jim Scaysbrook •  Photos: Dick […]

Riders

Doug James: The Original Wollongong Wizz

September 18, 2020

At just seventeen years of age, Doug James was the youngest rider in the Australian Tourist Trophy in 1939. He was also a long way from home. Pre-war, the journey from Wollongong to Phillip Island, […]

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Riders

Tim Gibbes: Off-road trailblazer

February 28, 2020

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 […]

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