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.

Tech Topics - Brakes
Terry Hopw0od reflects on a career with more stops than starts.

Velocettes in Antarctica
I guess it would be impossible today; taking any motorcycle to the Antarctic, let alone an older,
likely oil-leaking one. But, it has been done, not once but at least twice in 1961 and 1968.

Collectors: Sanders Firth-Brown
Is there such a thing as a normal motorcycle collector? Is there a normal place to look for
motorcycle collections? Is there a normal size for a collection, or are they simply broken into small, medium or large?

The Art of Cornering – an R60 Romance
Would you set off for a solo European tour on a 33-year-old motorcycle with virtually no riding experience? Kathy Head did.

Hand-change Hotrod
19365 Indian Sport Scout Racer Test
They don’t come any more different than this…

Herb Superb
Motorcycling is full of legends, but in the field of Australian dirt track racing, they don’t come any bigger than Herb Jefferson. Always torn between his twin loves of surfing and motorcycle racing,
the sun-tanned icon ruled the roost in the 1960s when Dirt Track was called Short Circuit.
He was a tough as nails competitor, a professional in a sea of weekend racers, and he quit the scene as suddenly as he came upon it.

Tangerine Dream
In 1999, the Guggenheim Museum in New York staged its now iconic exhibition, “The Art of the Motorcycle”, and in the series of machines from the 1970s, the Laverda SFC 750 was a
standout – not just for its vivid orange décor, but for the fact that every sinew of this gorgeous creation screamed elegance of design and pure functionality.

Something Very Special
1932 500cc Rudge works model
Norma and Linda Maddock are lynch-pins in the historic motorcycling scene in New Zealand. At the annual Pukekohe races both Norm and Linda are to be seen rushing around all weekend, attending to myriad tasks. Several of their considerable collection of machines are always to be seen, often in the hands of guest riders. For 2008, one of those guest riders was Jim Scaysbrook, aboard the
ex-works 1932 500cc Rudge.

Tracks in Time – A Little Bit of History – Little River
Like its more famous counterpart in the Irish Sea, the Australian TT was the biggest thing in motorcycling Down Under, and so there would be no squabbling over where the annual event that carried the status of the official Australian Championship would be held, the Auto Cycle Council of Australia decreed that, in post WW2 years, the TT would be rotated between states.