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24hr Reliability Trial – Eight decades of exceptional endurance

October 30, 2020

The rain eases a few minutes short of midnight but has already saturated the small knot of officials – their timesheets a sodden mess. A puff of wind does little to disperse the fog as […]

Bikes

Military Police Motorcycles: On active service

October 2, 2020

A pictorial history of motor cycles used by the Royal Australian Corps of Military Police (RACMP) Research, photographs and text: Sergeant Antony Buckingham. RACMP, Service Police investigator currently posted to The Australian Defence Force Investigative […]

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, […]

Riders

Harry Hinton: A Racing Life

August 28, 2020

The Isle of Man mountain course is unique in its sheer abundance of natural hazards, which are rarely tolerant of errors of judgement or mistakes. Those who have taken on the Mountain respect it, for […]

Riders

Laurie Boulter: Cover up at Handley’s Corner

August 7, 2020

Like many aspiring racers, the war robbed Laurie Boulter of perhaps his best years. But despite being on the wrong side of thirty, the South Australian resumed his career after the war and had a […]

Bikes

The Henderson Matchless: Home-spun hero

May 22, 2020

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, […]

OBA Issue 22
Bikes

The spring-frame 500cc Levis – What might have been

February 14, 2020

In Latin, Levis means light, and that’s the best way to describe the first motorcycle to bear the badge. It was designed by Bob Newey, a Norton employee prior to WW1, and young Bob had […]

OBA Issue 7
Riders

Maurie Quincey – Victorian Dominator

July 20, 2018

Maurie Quincey is assured of a place in Australia’s motorcycle racing history, by virtue of his domination of racing in the state of Victoria during the early 1950s. One of the best riders to come […]

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