“Stone” 1974
"STONE", Australia's first feature film on motorcycling, is due for national release this month. It offers two hours of colour action featuring the Grave Diggers, an outlaw group of Super4...
1972 Laverda 750 SFC
When Stan Evans came back from a prolonged stay in sunny Italy recently, he took particular care of his briefcase. It was filled with vital statistics on an Italian femme...
A Man and His Norton
It was in the wide cabin of an F100 Ford that it happened, while we were plugging across Melbourne with some trail bikes in the back. A Norton cut between...
1972-1992 Harley-Davidson Sportster
Back in the early Fifties, Harley Davidson was in a quandary. Which is very much like a quarry since they both involve being stuck down a hole. The Pommies, whose...
1979-1986 Ducati Mike Hailwood Replica
It is now more than forty-four years since Mike Hailwood came out of retirement to win the 1978 TT Formula One race at the Isle of Man on an NCR...
1975-1978 Moto Guzzi 850 Le Mans
Dawn struggled hard, but only managed to change the clouds from black to silver-grey. The Metzelers crackled on the dewy grass as the Guzzi was pushed towards my front gate....
1972 Kawasaki Z1 and 1976 Kawasaki Z900
Rolling from a factory in Akashi, Japan, as you read this, is the most exciting mass-produced motorcycle in the world. Kawasaki has built its Super4, a 900cc four-cylinder four stroke...
Ducati 1972 750GT and 1974 750 Super Sport
To mark the 50th Anniversary of the release of Ducati's first production V-twin, the 750GT in 1971, Classic Two Wheels here presents Two Wheels magazine's original road test of the...
1976-1984/1986-1992 BMW R100RS
The new flagship of the small BMW fleet is really some motorcycle, as it ought to be for a cool $4500 on the road. It is new in several regards,...
The Socket File: Gentleman Tourer
Finally, I've made the break and bought a Japanese motorbicycle. I needed to make a journey to Queensland and decided the Francis Barnett wasn't up to the task. As the...
1979 Honda CBX1000: Touring in the Fast Lane
This was no jaunt; no weekend parade across two states to wash out the brain beans. This was an Open Road extravaganza. Some 5000 km in four weeks laid back...
1969 Kawasaki Mach III 500 and 1972 Mach IV 750
A Two Wheels road test may mean testing a 750cc sportster or a 50cc step through. It is difficult to be objective, for we love motorcycles and motorcycling and it...
1971-1974 Moto Guzzi V7 Sport
Guzzi’s V7 Sport is close to the perfect motorcycle. And that’s allowing that the bike’s general specifications will give it appeal only to a smallish number of riders, and that...
The 1976 Castrol Six-Hour Race
Let the record show that the Team Avon Kawasaki Z1 of Jim Budd and Roger Heyes won the fastest and closest-ever Castrol Six Hour Race. And that the second placed...
1978 Triumph Bonneville T140
If you believed all the stories you heard about British motorcycles, it would have to come as a giant surprise to learn that they are still alive and well, and...