Phillip Island, 1992: the international debut of the FireBlade and Honda has hit the spot. All other sports bikes pale in comparison. Everything that came before is history; all that...
Warren Lee, General Manager of NF Importers, the Australian Ducati distributors, has a problem. He wants to change the word 'but' into 'because'. He's getting sick of hearing potential customers...
The only woman to beat a man in a speed race on equal terms is recorded in Greek mythology, when the fleet-footed Atalanta told her many ardent suitors: "Catch me...
The atmosphere of a race meeting is one of the most critical yet hard-to-define qualities. Often it's compounded of tradition and the realisation of a meeting's history. The Isle of...
Picture a relay race. There are several teams, some from Japan, some from Europe and one from the USA. The rules are simple. The fastest team wins. Anything’s allowed, as...
Let’s get one thing clear from the off. Suzuki’s GSF1200 Bandit is not a retro bike. Forget what the salesman at your local bike shop says, disregard the rantings of...
By the time I'd closed the panniers and strapped the work bag on the back seat, the lightning had rolled over the motel and the rain had stopped. "Beauty," I...
Something has stirred inside BMW's Boxers. Something more potent than ever before. The RS, the GS and the rest were all foreplay. The foreplay was nice, but the S is...
Until the XS750E arrived earlier this year (1978) it was hard to be even slightly impressed by any big-bore street Yamaha. Despite unparalleled successes in many phases of motorcycle sport...
If you accept that riding in freak rainstorms can provide enough information with which to formulate an opinion, and if you can overlook the hoary old shaft-drive versus chain-drive controversy,...
What the hell does Kawasaki think it's playing at? I mean it's one thing to build a motorcycle that lays claim to being one of the fastest things on the...
Hilda was a German girl I knew many years ago. Always reliable, totally faithful, a bit slow on the uptake maybe but stronger than two football teams. Hilda was capable...
Okay, so you’ve had enough of the nostalgic living legend and macho image bit surrounding the SR500E Yamaha, descendant of the 1937 BSA Gold Star. But the comparison just had...
"That twitching red mess in the ditch could have been me." In this ride to the dark side, Two Wheels magazine's three legendary columnists look death in the eye, and...
"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...