Old Bike Australasia Issue 18
Price: $11.50 each (Including postage & Handling)
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
Ray Owen: The Complete Motorcyclist
You could reasonably assume that there are a few OBA readers out there who started racing more than 60 years ago – not many, perhaps, but a few. But how many of them still own the bike that they raced successfully in the late forties? Ray Owen does, and he has an impressive array of State and National titles, on grass, dirt and bitumen that he won on this machine, a 1936 250cc L2/1 Triumph. But that is not where the Ray Owen story starts…
Down Under Demon
Dave Cole’s McIntyre G50
Created by Bob McIntyre, made famous by Jack Findlay, recreated by Ross Graham Racing, the McIntyre Matchless is a force to be reckoned with wherever it appears.
Rex Tilbrook
There are more than 200 Australian motorcycle manufacturers scattered in the annals of history, stretching back to the earliest days of motorised transport, alas, now all gone. Perhaps the last was the Tilbrook, the work of a man with a remarkable mind.
A new spin on rotary valves
Designed more than 40 years ago, the Don Brooks rotary valve cylinder head incorporates the best features of several designs but is still looking for a true believer to become a manufacturing reality.
The world according to Gyro
Graeme Carless’ world is black and white – he’s a BMW man through and through.
Tracks In Time – Talbingo’s place in history
Short Circuit is a uniquely Australian branch of the sport that has struggled with an identity crisis for decades. When road racing meant exactly that, racing on closed public roads, usually tar-sealed, Miniature TT was the name applied to racing on unsealed, shorter tracks that were generally up to a mile in length. By the early 1950s, with the advent of tar-sealed race tracks (often converted from wartime air strips), Miniature TT in its traditional form, using the same machines as were raced on the road circuits, was fasts disappearing.
Honda CBX
The Wild One
Faced with stiffening opposition from all fronts for the title of King of the Road, Honda went for the coup de etat.
Cover up at Handley’s Corner
The Laurie Boulter Story
Like many aspiring racers, the war robbed Laurie Boulter of perhaps his best years. But despite being on the wrong side of thirty, the South Australian resumed his career after the war and had a solid claim as Australia’s best road racer after Harry Hinton.
Old Bike Out’n’about
A forum of people, places, history and happenings.
|
