Australian Road Rider

SPEED WEEK

“It seemed like a tall ask until Valerie ran a lazy 328mph (528km/h) ‘off the trailer’”

Every once in a while a movie comes along that changes the motorcycling world, whether it was The Wild One laying down the template for outlaw biker culture in 1953 or ushering in the trail bike boom of the 1970s. In more recent times, Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman’s introduced us to the romance of adventure bikes, just as popularised choppers a generation earlier.

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