It's the new year so all the best to all my readers for the upcoming 12 months. This year will mark the 15th year that I have been writing this blog. While it seems to be a little bit harder to dig up fresh material than it was, I fully intend to do … [Read more]
Getting away with it..
Before I start the story I must apologise for not updating my blog recently. We have both been stricken with the dreaded bug and that, combined with numerous other family commitments, has meant that time has been taken up with these things rather … [Read more]
Under the radar
Double Demerits was due to start at midnight on the 23rd December and run for 10 days so a quick ride before they kicked in seemed to be in order. Now, about DDs. They don't bother me because I don't speed. BUT, they DO bother me because, while … [Read more]
A different track
Most of you will know that I have another life (several, actually) apart from motorcycling and that is speedway. I first encountered the cult of the flying topsoil back in the mid 1960s when Channel 7 in Sydney started doing a highlights package of … [Read more]
Not board at all
Wollongong has always been a surfing town, probably longer than it has been an industrial town. And, as well as being a surfing town, its proximity to the coast and the highway that leads south to numerous surfing destinations means that cars with … [Read more]
From the treasure trove..
I still have only done a cursory dig through the stuff that I picked up from Canberra last weekend but even a cursory examination has yielded some great discoveries. Amongst the correspondence is this letter, written to the Club by the late Ray … [Read more]
Friday Flashback #5
As you know, I travelled to Canberra last Saturday for a birthday party and to take care of some terribly overdue CRRC business. As so often happens, without any previous consultation, this week has seen quite a few previously-unseen road closure … [Read more]
Digging up the past
It's been 20 years or so since Canberra Road Racing Club, the club I helped to found in 1977, ceased operation. A combination of factors and the actions of one disaffected member hastened its demise and the people involved have long since moved … [Read more]
Everyone has to start somewhere
My local riding group has lots of members and many of them are novice riders. Whenever we post up a ride or and event we always make it clear that learner or novice riders are welcome on the ride. Just every now and then we organise a ride that is … [Read more]
Friday Flashback #4
The subject of this week's flashback is well known to those who followed racing in the 1970s. It is, of course, the likeable German racer, Helmut Dahne. Helmut who, throughout his career, used the same pattern leathers (and still does, he's still … [Read more]
