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....
If there’s one problem with philanthropy, it is that one’s good trust in humanity is constantly being attacked by miserable reality. Most folk discard the whole concept of human good...
Kel Wearne, also known as Captain Flashbulb, was Australia’s answer to Hunter S Thompson, and throughout the 1970s and early 1980s was very prolific in Two Wheels, writing epic long...
Peter Smith wrote tests, features, fiction and, most notably, the Mr Smith column for Two Wheels from 1985 until his death in 2009, aged 57. His early columns, from 1985-1988,...
I've been writing/talking about motorcycles through magazines, video and radio (AMCN, Radio Rider and Motorcycle Trader, among others) and on the web since 1984 and have accidentally become a collector. Or just...