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    New Products For All Bikers
    Staying warm and dry is a prerequisite of most motorcycle apparel in a climate such as ours for many months of the year, so is staying cool and safe. The Velotura jacket from Macna is just such an item. This model features large 3D mesh panels front
    Old Bike Australasia1 min read
    Something For All Tastes At Donington Auction
    Newly established in a fabulous heritage building at the former hub of Sydney motorcycle racing, Amaroo Park, Donington Auctions is gearing up for a major Timed Online Auction from 20th May to 3rd June, 2024. Early consignments include a 1960 Moto Gu
    Old Bike Australasia2 min read
    Reading And Watching
    By Alan Cathcart 152 pages hard cover Published by Motoitaliane Price: Euro 45 plus postage To order: https://www.motoitaliane.it/prodotto/7512/ This is an unmissable book for all Guzzi fans and motorcycle lovers in general because it tells the roman
    Old Bike Australasia2 min read
    The Biggest Bathurst Yet
    Had it not been for the intervention of Covid, this would have been the 50th running of the popular Easter Tour which began in 1974 under the auspices of Don Liddle OAM. With the enforced year off in 2020, 2025 will celebrate that milestone half cent
    Old Bike Australasia6 min read
    User Friendly
    Making its debut in 1983 as the semi-naked XJ900 (actual capacity 853cc), with a small bikini fairing and a very traditional looking air-cooled engine with the cylinders canted well forward, the 900 was just like the original and founding member of t
    Old Bike Australasia2 min read
    Hot Times In Brisbane
    The HMCCQ again mustered up a fine collection of historic motorcycles to compliment the annual Caboolture Heritage Village’s Australia Day celebration. The display grew to 36 motorcycles and included the Villages’ resident Walcott motorised wheelchai
    Old Bike Australasia8 min read
    Letters To The Editor
    It’s a very small world. When I happened to mention I was to photograph a Horex for OBA to a work colleague (adventure biker and ex-Norwegian Richard Gjone) he replied that back in Scandinavia his late uncle (Magnus Dale) was a Horex enthusiast and h
    Old Bike Australasia1 min read
    From Whence We Came
    The Castrol Six Hour Race of 1983 – the final event to be staged at Amaroo Park before Oran Park took over – saw a wholesale reshuffle of what was considered to be competitive with a new capacity ceiling of 1000cc. Gone were the old monsters like the
    Old Bike Australasia5 min read
    1932 Christmas Guineas
    On Boxing Day 26th December 1932, members of the Sydney motorcycling community with the means to get there, converged on the western suburb of Prospect, just minutes from today’s Sydney Motor Sport Park. The occasion was the running of the Christmas
    Old Bike Australasia1 min read
    Sights And Stunts At Ulverstone
    Held in beautiful sunny conditions, the show was again a great combination of indoor trophy contenders and outdoor dis-plays, from the line up of patron bikes on the concourse to static displays from motor cycle clubs. Two vastly different performanc
    Old Bike Australasia1 min read
    Gary’s FLASH BACK
    This issue, not an image of vivid speed and daring feats, but rather a candid look at days gone by; in this case, the lull before the storm perhaps. Gary’s own shot comes from Oran Park on 11th June 1972, in the marshalling area for the Hazell & Moor
    Old Bike Australasia2 min read
    Winton Lost To Bikes?
    The track’s owner and operator, the Benalla Auto Club (BAC), has been in discussions with Motorcycling Australia (MA) for several years regarding modifications required to maintain the circuit’s licence for motorcycle racing. This basically involved
    Old Bike Australasia2 min read
    Another Lap Of The Apple Isle
    Held every two years, the Tassie Tour is eagerly awaited by those lucky enough to join the ranks for a 12-day feast of fabulous roads, wonderful scenery and camaraderie. The 2024 Tour drew 117 entries on bikes built between 1926 and 1970, the most po
    Old Bike Australasia4 min read
    Weather Fails To Dampen A Great Event
    The Burt Munro Challenge continues to attract large numbers of competitors and spectators to this laid back five-day motorcycling festival and rally. One of the Southern hemisphere’s major motorsport events, the diverse entries cover a number of disc
    Old Bike Australasia3 min read
    The Bullet ricochets
    The new Bullet 350 shares the J-series engine, a long-stroke 2-valve air/oil cooled single with chain-driven single overhead camshaft, with the Meteor, Hunter and the Classic, which have been around for a couple of years, but the unit in the Bullet h
    Old Bike Australasia4 min read
    Forty Years In The Making
    The Rally moved to South Australia this year, to commemorate forty years since the first time we had been in a show as a new club. That event occurred in March 1983 in the Rundle Mall Adelaide. That show had been organised by the M.R.A.S.A. The rally
    Old Bike Australasia5 min read
    Under the Chequered Flag
    The legendary American Moto Guzzi tuner DR. JOHN WITTNER passed away last week at his Philadelphia home on February 15, aged 78. He had been ill for some months with cancer, and will be greatly missed by guzzisti around the world. Dr. John and I beca
    Old Bike Australasia1 min read
    RARITEE Best Letter
    A great story by Peter Whittaker on Greg Kentwell in OBA 113, but I wish to correct the statement that Ove Fundin bought the ESO ridden by Jim Airey into Australia. This bike, and I’m sure others will realise, was the first one in the country and bou
    Old Bike Australasia3 min read
    What’s On
    CLUB SECRETARIES: Because of our lead time for printing, please ensure your listing is received at least four months prior to the event. Email your event details to… scaysbrook34@bigpond.com 30th Anniversary of the Indian Motocycle Club of Australia
    Old Bike Australasia3 min read
    A Worldly Effort
    Holding a European Motorcycle Day at which FOMSA magnanimously (albeit with tongue in cheek) allowed Britain to rejoin the EU for the day, enabled the “Best of British” motorcycles to stand side by side with the best motorcycles made in the “Iron Cur
    Old Bike Australasia2 min read
    Hard Work Pays Off
    Promoted once again by the Post Classic Racing Association of NSW, the annual Festival of Speed, sponsored for 2024 by Bridgestone Motorsport, provided a weekend of close and exciting racing. 170 riders entered for the meeting, bringing with them wel
    Old Bike Australasia1 min read
    Beauties by Bass Straight
    Strong wind and threatening skies didn’t deter the large crowd for the 2024 Sea Road Motor Show put on by the Devonport Rotary Club. The motorcycle section was as usual well looked after by the Vintage Japanese Motor Cycle club with even more exhibit
    Old Bike Australasia4 min read
    Flight Of The Damn Foole
    I have fallen in love twice. Once was with a woman, the other was with an object. Well, others said she was inanimate, but they were not on intimate terms like me. I knew better. She combined the best attributes of supermodel and muscular female athl
    Old Bike Australasia3 min read
    Out In The Shed
    People attending motorcycle rallies around NSW have no doubt got to know Linda Filewood and her partner Stephen Drinkwater. Linda is one of those people you usually hear before she is seen. She is extremely well liked and loves a chat, and is a very
    Old Bike Australasia1 min read
    Dodging A Cyclone
    As club president Ray Walsh said in his briefing to riders on Saturday morning, the second running of the Tiddler Rally almost didn’t happen. As early arrivals were setting up at Rally HQ, Shoalhaven Caravan Village in Nowra, the temperature dropped
    Old Bike Australasia1 min read
    Old Timers Bounce Back
    After an enforced layoff in 2023, the Motorcycle Old Timers Association of NSW will stage its 56th Annual Reunion dinner on Thursday 9th May, 2024. This is one of the longest-established get-togethers for the veterans, and always a popular event. For
    Old Bike Australasia6 min read
    Just Mad About the Fifties
    Ron Murrell’s collection is spread between his house in inner Sydney (with six bikes) and his industrial unit in the northern suburbs. In the unit are around forty complete bikes, tons of components such as frames, wheels, engines, tanks and tinware,
    Old Bike Australasia1 min read
    Pitstop Online closes
    One of Australia’s last specialist motoring book sellers, Pitstop Online, closed its doors on 17th March, 2024. Pitstop began in Perth, WA where it operated a retail outlet in King Street, and became one of the largest outlets for books, DVDs and rel
    Old Bike Australasia4 min read
    A Star In Two hemispheres
    When John Dodds departed Australia for Europe in 1966, he had reached the very top echelon of racing in his home country, but with meagre cash reserves and a used 500cc Manx Norton that had been purchased through a loan from his uncle, he knew he wou
    Old Bike Australasia5 min read
    From Big Five To Oblivion
    The origins of the Bianchi company stretch back to 1885, when Edoardo Bianchi opened a factory in Milan to initially manufacture bicycles, the first such fitted with pneumatic tyres. Soon came a pushbike equipped with a clip-on proprietary engine. In

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