Old Bike Australasia Issue 15
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Classic Cob Out In the Shed
Big Pete ‘Cob’ Smith is a regular figure at swap meets around the country and a bloke with his finger firmly on the pulse of the classic scene.
Buzz Box – Old Bike News
A Herd comes home
At the speedway during the early seventies there was no shortage of colour and sparkle. In fact it’s remarkable what enthusiasts still recall, as if it were yesterday. The era of the sixties was s distant memory, but city tracks were plentiful and the race equipment had hardly changed. The sweet exhaust aroma – remembered by many to this day – was still there and the unmuffled noise was still just as defeaning.
Eric Debenham
One of the most universally popular racers of the past half century, Eric Debenham is still a keen rider.
Il scandolo grande! The 1976 Australian TT Story
A concept that promised the world, ended up delivering must less, particularly to investors. What the crowd got however, had never been seen before in Australia. It was history in the making…
Lambretta Mini marvels – A pair of works Lambretta racers
Strange looking devices they may have been, but the Lambretta C Racers were effective, if ephemeral in a competition sense.
Wheels Through Time – the Museum that runs
Dale Walksler is a hands-on guy in the literal sense. And when he decided to build a museum to pay homage to American motorcycling history he wanted its visitors to be hands-on, make that feets-on, as well.
Tin basher to the stars
You would be hard-pressed to find anyone more comfortable with life than Steve Roberts, a man who has had a hand in more successful projects that you would think possible.
Suzuki Katana -
Call us boring would you? Well, cop this!
The boom in big-capacity motorcycles that began in the late 1960s continued unabated a decade later, and the annual end-of-year shows, in Milan and Cologne (which rotated year about) and Tokyo always contained a few kite-flying exercised from the major manufacturers. One such was at the 1980 IFMA show in October, when Suzuki pulled the wraps off the most radically-styled machine yet to come out of Japan, a country with its motor industry built and based on conservative thinking and logical progression.
Come into my parlour
It started with issue 8 of Old Bike magazine. I sat reading it at my local put when a friend of mine noticed the Hesketh on the front cover. He said something along the lines of “A Hesketh! … my dad has a Hesketh” to which I responded with something along the lines of “Bull”! My friend insisted his Dad not only had Hesketh but a whole shed full of great bikes.
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