At the end of 1967, the FIM announced that it was putting a stop to all of this multi-cylinder nonsense and that road racing bikes would be restricted to "just" 4 cylinders. The era before had seen … [Read more...]
Archives for August 2019
Maintenance day
As the title suggests, today was a maintenance day. There were jobs that needed doing on both the VFR and the Gold Wing so there was no putting it off any longer. I actually intended doing these jobs … [Read more...]
Important Half of My Life update
It's over 11 years since I started writing my blog. In that time, I've produced a couple of thousand articles and ranged far and wide over subjects that cover much more than just motorcycling. And, … [Read more...]
The Great Ocean Road
Every country has its "must see" destination, whether it be the Grand Canyon, Stonehenge, Niagara Falls or the Pyramid of Giza. In Australia we have a raft-load of them which is probably why Australia … [Read more...]
A trip down memory lane and some great ideas..
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 folk music … [Read more...]
Silly season, silly season..
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 ever during … [Read more...]
Orphans Pt5
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 thought … [Read more...]
Showing off – again
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 season, … [Read more...]
Introducing Goldie (and, yes, it’s not a very imaginative name but I have my reasons)
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 answered … [Read more...]
Walking on water
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 that will … [Read more...]
