The cult of celebrity really does nothing for me but I must admit to breaking out every now and then. That's me at the WSBK meeting at PI in 2014. Lauren Vickers, the Australian model. She was at the … [Read more...]
Archives for April 2020
There’s a fine line
...between pleasure and pain, or so the pop song tells us. The saying is also true in many other areas of life but especially so in the case of motorcycle road racing. Please allow me to … [Read more...]
Riding season
One of the aspects of the inter-connected world in which we now live is that presumptions about locations matter a great deal less than what they used to. How many of you find that, when you check … [Read more...]
Easter and Bathurst
For any motorcycle road racing enthusiast in the 70's, Easter meant only one thing, a trip to Bathurst for the annual motorcycle racing carnival. For most of us the two most important dates on the … [Read more...]
Making the grade
I don't go to modern race meetings. The sight of dozens of I4 Japanese bikes whizzing by, all looking the same and sounding the same just doesn't do it for me. That's why my forays to the track these … [Read more...]
A detailed history of Honda’s 4 stroke MotoGp bikes.
As you know, I always strive for (indeed, INSIST on) original content. But, every now and then, I come across an article that is just too good not to share. Below is such an article, … [Read more...]
Ogs PtII
The other day I published the text of one of C J Dennis's poems from the book, "The Glugs of Gosh". It seems to finish rather promptly and this is because there is another chapter in the book that … [Read more...]
Ogs
I have previously noted that one of the things that I remember most from my childhood was my father's passion for poetry. He especially loved the Australian classics, particularly Paterson, and took … [Read more...]