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FOR one reason or another, I didn’t ride a motorcycle for a year or so until recently. At least I had a job writing about them, so it wasn’t a total drought. But let me give you the tip, riding beats writing any day. So it felt pretty good to finally

NOT only is this one of the best-looking K-series BMWs we’ve ever featured, it is one of the best built. Most customisers only rebuild the bits that need rebuilding but not Dan Scott from Brisbane, whose fastidious approach extended to the most minut

VENDETTA Racing UAE was formed in 2007 by rookie racer Alan Boyter to compete in the Sportsbike Championship at the newly opened Dubai Autodrome. Within a few years, Vendetta attracted riders of the calibre of current UAE Sportsbike champ Mahmoud Tan

WORDS GEOFF SEDDON WELL-KNOWN Melbourne bike dealer and workshop Mid Life Cycles built ‘Brass Rajah’ to compete in the inaugural Royal Enfield distributor-backed Custom Bike Build-Off in 2016. Amazingly, it didn’t win, pipped at the post by a build

THE Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride, born in Sydney and now celebrating its 10th running, is surely the motorcycling phenomenon of the new millennium. Not even the bastard global pandemic could dampen its inspirational spirit nor limit the millions of

NOT everyone will get Jay Donovan’s latest creation, dubbed ‘Amadeus’, just like not everyone appreciates the metal artistry of Max Hazan or Daryl Villanueva’s science fiction-inspired customs. One guy who does is US philanthropist and all-round Rena

BRISBANE-based marine engineer Damian has a thing for small-capacity two-stroke Suzukis and it has been thus since the dawn of his motorcycling life. “I got my first bike when I was 18, a Suzuki GT250,” Damian says. “I was still living at my olds at

AUSSIE movie Mad Max opens with the Nightrider and his girlfriend flying across western Victoria in a black HQ coupe, pursued by members of Main Force Patrol in their brightly-coloured Falcon chasers. The Nightrider has their measure until he comes u

FOR the past 67 years, Ducati’s USP (unique selling proposition) has been the closeness of its customer products to the bikes its factory riders race at the highest level. This is especially true of Ducati’s natural sporting home, Superbike racing, w

HONG Kong is many things to many people, but not everyone immediately associates the Chinese Special Administrative Region with motorcycling. But there are some fine scratching roads there supporting a strong bike culture and French ex-pats Guillaume

THE 44th running of Historic Winton was held at the Winton Motor Raceway just north of Benalla, Victoria, under almost perfect racing conditions. The event is one of the few 2+2 (cars and bikes) meetings still in existence and is run jointly by the A

IF THERE is one theme common to most modern styles of custom bikes – be they bobbers, café racers, streetfighters or trackers – it is that less is more. Complexity sucks, simplicity rules. Remove all the unnecessary stuff to unleash the beauty hidden

SWEDEN isn’t a country normally associated with the manufacture of exotic road-racing hardware, but between 1931 and 1935 the country's largest road bike manufacturer, Husqvarna, built a total of 15 works 500cc V-twin Grand Prix racers and four 350s.

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THEY are asking too much,” a familiar voice said down the phone. “I’m going in at 90 thousand, tops.” "Mate, you can afford it. You've always wanted one, now's your chance. Is it any good?" "Oh yeah …" I've known Terry since we went chasing old motor

I WILL never forget the look on Sally’s mother’s face when I rocked up to take Sal out for the first time. I was dressed neatly but my fatal mistake was to have a crash helmet under my arm. Sally’s mum looked at me, looked down at the helmet, looked