Alex Campbell: Self-made racer
From our Old Bike Archives – Issue 62 – first published in 2016. Edited by Jim Scaysbrook from research by Baden Butler. • Photos: Robin Lewis, Keith Ward, Baden Butler, Bill Snelling TT FotoFinders, Alan Stone, […]
Sidecar
Kapooka – A one-off in Wagga
Story: Jim Scaysbrook • Photos: Frank Shepherd When Mount Druitt disappeared in November 1958, it left NSW with just one operational road racing circuit – the once-a-year bash at Bathurst at Easter. This had the effect […]
Remarkable Rex Tilbrook
There are more than 200 Australian motorcycle manufacturers scattered in the annals of history, stretching back to the earliest days of motorised transport, alas, now all gone. Perhaps the last was the Tilbrook, the work […]
Bob Mitchell – Sidecar superstar
There was a time when sidecars were arguably the most popular class on any road race program. In the late 1940s and 1950s the advent of the big twin Vincent revolutionised the outfit scene in […]
