Racing Lines: Anthony Gobert
If this isn't a golden era for Australian international road racing, I don't know what is. We have world champions in the premier Grand Prix (Mick Doohan) and Superbike (Troy...
Bathurst 1983: Countdown to Glory
Andrew Johnson flops into a metal chair, mopping perspiration from a now ruddy face. His leathers have been shoved down to his waist, revealing damp maroon-toned inner silks. From across...
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...
Racing’s Greats: Mick Doohan
On his descent from the conquest of Mt. Everest, Edmund Hillary is supposed to have greeted one of his colleagues with the disarming line, "We got the bastard!" Michael Doohan...
Valentino, Covered
Two Wheels magazine devoted more pages to Valentino Rossi than any other GP racer because he was a superstar of the sport. Only Hailwood and Agostini had that same quality,...
Once Upon a Time on a Mountain
Of the hundreds of competitors at every Bathurst meeting, maybe a dozen leave the place with memories they'll always treasure -- images that are dragged out over pots of ale...
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...
Racing’s Greats: Eddie Lawson
At the start of 1984, leading American motorcycle journalist John Ulrich wrote a thought-provoking profile of Yamaha’s new world 500 championship team leader, Eddie Lawson. In the profile, Ulrich predicted...
Racing’s Greats: Giacomo Agostini
Italy’s Giacomo Agostini holds the all-time record for the greatest number of world championships and grand prix victories. Agostini between 1965 and 1976 won 122 grands prix in the 350...
Racing’s Greats: Kenny Roberts
Ten years ago a super-confident, race-smart, 26-year-old twice American Motorcyclist Association champion from a dusty part of California came to Europe and did a job most thought impossible. His name...
Racing’s Greats: Mike Hailwood
Few names in motorcycle racing evoke more emotion than that of Mike Hailwood, a legend to two generations of racing fans the world over. Don Cox, in the third of...
The Wayne Train
Mick Doohan won more titles, and Casey Stoner was pure speed, but no Australian racer lit up the country like Wayne Gardner, the Wollongong Whizz. Two Wheels Editor Mick Matheson...
Bathurst 1974
You know the scene which is stuck on the end of all motor racing films? The one where the hero wanders out on to the deserted track opposite the grandstands....
The 1970 Castrol Six Hour Race
It's 50 years since the first Castrol Six Hour. Two Wheels was there. Here's the magazine's original race report, titled "Street Bikes Pour on the Action." And they certainly did!...