A recent survey in the United Kingdom has totally altered every belief I held on motorbicycles and speed. For many years, more than I care to remember, I have believed...
Some bikes you can just climb on, hit the button and ride hard, confident that you know what the bike is about and that it will respond to your slightest...
The full-bodied bark of a Conti-ed Ducati Super Sport charging hard along the tight mountain road echoes through the valley from three, four miles away and hits me deep inside....
This stunningly beautiful creature's credentials go more than skin deep, for it is also the most powerful 1000cc sportsbike on the road. Forget its claim of 122kW because it does...
How do you start to write about the MV Agusta? Do you detail the way they have dominated the world championships, do you point out that the factory's craftsmen only...
In the first instalment of Wringing Bells, we left Lester Morris and his mate Fred dicing like demons between Lithgow and Bathurst. In the concluding part of this tale from...
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...
It’s amazing the amount of interest the new generation Japanese twins have stirred up out there in motorcycle land. In nearly every place motorcyclists gather - bike shops, pubs, rallies,...
I slid sideways into the Two Wheels office at Federal Publishing in 1995 after the closure of REVS, which I'd been editing at the time. I got there a freshly...
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...
When it comes to the black art of roadtesting, Two Wheels has, thankfully, not adhered to its original editorial creed, as expressed in the first issue, back in 1968: "...
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...
The talk is there, the message is clear: let's make a show of reducing the fuel consumption by lowering the speed limit throughout Aussie-land even more, to around 90 km/h....
A run of the mill bike the Moto Guzzi 1000 Le Mans definitely is not. In fact, as Harleys, Ducatis and BMWs get more refined, reliable and sophisticated - more...