At 10:00am on Sunday, October 22, the flag was raised to signal the start of the 1978 Castrol Six-Hour. The riders sped across the front straight to their mounts, Graeme Crosby leading the charge up …

While Yamaha dominated the local grand prix classes throughout the 1970s, it had only limited success in production racing that had swept Australia. The Yamaha RD250 was the bike to have in the lightweight production …

America has Randy Mamola, and Australia had Gregg Hansford. Both riders won over ten motorcycle grands prix and could dominate the very best riders of the day with brilliant, spectacular riding, but neither could quite …

Graeme Crosby encountered a number of hell men when he first ventured to Australia in the mid-’70s, namely Jim Budd, Roger Heyes and later Rob Phillis, the late Roy Denison and Dennis Neill.
But Croz reckons …

In part one of our story on ‘70s motocross icon Jammin’ Jimmy Weinert, we learned that the tall New Yorker successfully employed calculated psyche-out tactics to blunt the arrogance of the all-dominant European riders, who …

Of all the riders to emerge from the primordial swamp of Superbike racing in the 1970s, none was more flamboyant, spectacular and brilliant than Graeme Crosby.
For someone lucky enough to witness Kiwi Croz at his …

One of the great characters of the burgeoning American motocross scene in the early ‘70s was Mitchell Nelson Weinert – better known as Jammin’ Jimmy Weinert.
The Jammer can lay claim to several milestones including being …

If not for some quick thinking on an April night, 1974, the 1975 Daytona 200 may not have been won by Gene Romero, and the 1976-1980 world 500 championships captured by people other than Barry …

Question: Valentino, you’re a keen student of motorcycle grand prix history. Who are your favourite riders from the past, and what do you know of Jarno Saarinen?
Valentino Rossi: My favourite riders are Schwantz, Rainey, Hailwood …