Australian Road Rider

ENGINEERING HALL OF FAME

“Fabio Taglioni came in third on Seddo’s list of all-time great motorcycle engineers”

Do you ever wish you did something in your life which really made a difference? Something so iconic it defined a generation, a genre, even a nation? I can think of a dozen motorcycle engineers who did just that, but with only 800 words to argue my case, here’s my top five.

John Britten was a dyslexic hippy who leveraged the family property development business

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