Kel Wearne hit Amaroo Park in Sydney and discovered that what makes a bike work well on the open road doesn't necessarily make it a race winner. And vice versa....
Lining up bikes to test in Two Wheels has always been an aspect of the job which has its fair share of coincidences and twists of fate. As a rule,...
"What are you doing?” I'm trying to concentrate - that's what I'm doing. "Why are you fixing those old boots? Doesn't TW pay you enough for a new pair every...
It's big, bulbous and ostentatious, but Honda's innovative GL1000 is a technical tour-de-force and the most significant new model in motorcycling in a decade! Brian Cowan has the full story....
Derek Pickard was Two Wheels chief roadtester in the very early days of the magazine, the late 1960s and early 1970s. A lifelong motorcycle and motoring journalist, Derek is "72...
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...
Only a few motorcycles can be credited with defining an era. Honda’s first 750 Four of 1969 established a tradition of across-the-frame four-cylinder motorcycles that continues today, and in 1994...
Geoff Seddon compares Yamaha’s new FZR1000 and the current Two Wheels Bike of the Year, the Suzuki GSX-R1100. Every other bike he’s ridden now seems a bit insignificant. Virtually from...
A quiet, unassuming scientist, Dave Bourne had an ability to forensically analyse a motorcycle and make an an accurate call about whether or not it was any good. He was...
A formidable intellect and the most technically literate Editor to take the chair at Two Wheels, Brian Cowan began his involvement with the magazine as a contributor in the early...
A gun roadtester for Two Wheels and the magazine’s Assistant Editor in 1988-1989, Geoff Seddon also edited the Two Wheels offshoot Streetbike, and started his own magazine, Performance Cycles. An...
John Rooth's involvement in Two Wheels spanned almost 30 years, including 25 as the magazine's longest serving columnist. His Gripes of Rooth and Rooth columns, together with Mr Smith and...
A fine roadtester, Mick Matheson was Editor of Two Wheels in 1993-1994. He went on to also edit Australian Motorcycle News and Australian Road Rider magazines. Today, Mick runs his...
Grant Roff contributed in several capacities to Two Wheels over five decades. A supremely gifted writer, his Groff column was a must read in the magazine. In recent years he...
Jeremy Bowdler was Two Wheels' longest serving Editor. He took over from Mick Matheson in 1995 and ran the magazine for 17 years until his death in 2012, aged 51....