One of a Kind: The 1968 Suzuki T500 Cobra
Words & Images, Jim Scaysbrook – Old Bike Australasia Magazine, Issue 127 In production for just one year, the Suzuki T500 Cobra is a very significant model. It is also an exceedingly difficult model for […]
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“Don’t trudge it…Rudge it!” – The 1937 Rudge Special.
OBA 126 Rudge Special 1937. Story and photos by Jim Scaysbrook Rescued from a fate worse than death, a Rudge Special now struts its stuff again. For a company that produced motorcycles for only thirty […]
Motorcycle Sport Australasia: Save Our Tracks
An Open Letter to the Custodians of Motorcycle Sport Still Willing to Fight as Our Tracks Disappear There is something that’s been eating at me for a while now: it feels as though Australia has […]
1934 Excelsior 250 Mechanical Marvel Racer Test: Intricate Excellence
Mechanical Marvel By: Alan Cathcart Despite the lingering after-effects of the Great Depression, the 1930s stand out as a golden era of two-wheeled technical novelty. With the ideal overall format of motorcycle design essentially determined, […]
Hoffmann MP250-2 Gouverneur: The Rise and Fall of the Baby Boxer
A fascinating journey into the post-war German motorcycle industry, where ambitious entrepreneurs like Jakob Oswald Hoffmann reached for the stars with the unique “Baby Boxer”- and flew just a little too close to the sun. […]
Triumph’s last gasp: the abandoned Bandit
Besieged and battered they may have been, but Triumph’s boffins could see that the middleweights were the way of the future. With the Bandit and its badge-brother the BSA Fury, they were on the right track, but… In the early 1970s, the world […]
