MEMORIES from your youth … it’s the ones that make you smile that are the most precious. As the son of a confirmed petrol head who raced cars and rode bikes, it was clear ‘Super’ fuel was going to run rich in my veins.
I’ve so many memories of afternoons at Sydney’s now long defunct Amaroo Park, clambering over the rock-strewn hillsides and watching on as Gally, Gunter and Granquist did their stuff on the motocross track.
But one day really stands out: the time I snuck around to the road race track, and the shriek, the wail, the howl, of a then new Honda superbike captured the attention of everyone within ear shot. It was the 1978 Honda CBX1000 on debut
