In motorcycling terms, standing still is not an option, unless you have your feet on the ground or the bike is on its stand. I know there are people who specialise in riding bikes while they are standing still, they are call observed trials riders … [Read more]
My other bike
As you know, I've been trying to get into shape during the lockdown. I figure that there are two choices here; stay at home and eat and suffer the consequences or get out and start exercising and see some positive benefit from the enforced … [Read more]
Fathers Day
Today is Fathers Day, here in Australia, anyway, the day is celebrated on other dates in other areas but today here we pause and remember our dads. If you ARE a dad OR a grandad, then Happy Fathers Day to you today. My dad passed away a long time … [Read more]
Ad Visory
As far as I remember, for the first few months of my riding I wore an open-face helmet like the one shown in this picture. This was my first-ever ride on a bike on Bob Holden's TX500 Yamaha, early 1974. No protective gear of any kind, not even a … [Read more]
Paradise lost
In 1973, when my wife and I got married, the plan always was that we would spend our honeymoon on Norfolk Island. Quite why we decided on this is lost in the dim reaches of my memory but the aim became irrelevant as the time grew closer and the … [Read more]
More Shadowfax goodies
As noted on previous occasions, it never ceases to amaze me that, over 40 years after the event, previously unseen photos from the Canberra Road Closures still keep turning up. As you know, I was intimately involved in the organising and running of … [Read more]
It’s not what you know
I have been reminded a few times recently on various social media posts of an old friend of mine, Paul Feeney. When I first met Paul he was a member of CRRC and was racing for the club as sidecar passenger to another club member, Ray … [Read more]
RIP Nanci Griffith
This morning I received the sad news that beloved singer/songwriter Nanci Griffith, passed away on Wednesday at her home in Nashville Tennessee. Details about the cause of her death have not been published at this stage but her death will be sure to … [Read more]
Miniature marvels
This might just be one of the most famous motorcycle racing photographs of all time. It is, of course, the greatest road racer of all time, Mike Hailwood, aboard the legendary Honda RC166 Honda. There is so much to like about this picture but I want … [Read more]
Maverick by name
Last evening the internet erupted with the news that Yamaha had stood down their factory rider, Maverick Vinales, from this weekend's Austrian Grand Prix over an unspecified activity that Yamaha said was likely to have resulted in danger to his own … [Read more]
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