My introduction to motorcycling, as I have detailed before, was entirely accidental. Bob Holden was a good mate at my church at Port Kembla and he and I, along with another friend, had a … [Read more]
Silly season, silly season..
August 17, 2019 By Leave a Comment
The fact that most MotoGp seats are settled for next season (see table below) already did not stop the notoriously inane Italian media from trotting out the stupidest silly season rumour … [Read more]
Orphans Pt5
August 15, 2019 By Leave a Comment
It can’t have escaped your notice that the majority of “orphan” bikes that I have highlighted in my series have been products of the 80’s, that glorious era when the Japanese manufacturers … [Read more]
Showing off – again
August 12, 2019 By Leave a Comment
Winter is drawing to an end and that means that it's show time coming up. Living on the coast as I do, there are always plenty of car/bike shows on the calendar and they are always fun. This … [Read more]
Introducing Goldie (and, yes, it’s not a very imaginative name but I have my reasons)
August 8, 2019 By
Almost exactly 5 years ago an old speedway mate of mine here in Wollongong posted up this photo on Facebook. ..along with the comment, "Is anyone interested in this?" I immediately … [Read more]
Walking on water
August 4, 2019 By
Records are made to be broken, they say and it seems that we are seeing this axiom demonstrated on a fairly regular basis these days. Within the last year we have seen two records broken … [Read more]
