Yamaha or Suzuki? It was the burning question on many a young dude's mind in 1973, and it took Australia's most comprehensive road test to pick the best 250 stroker....
There’s no doubt about it. I’m a typical tradesman. Well, it’s not that I’m a real tradesman. I left the Fixing Things business shortly before The Powers That Be declared...
There is universal agreement among motorcycle enthusiasts that the BMW is about the world’s finest motorcycle. The marque still seems to set a standard all but unapproachable by most makes...
Conqueror of distance and time, this twin has the stamina to survive until the wheel turns full circle, returning simplicity to motorcycle powerplants. And, if that hasn’t already happened, the...
With care born of years of painful experience I raised the eyelid covering my left eye, at the same time making a concerted effort to restrain the eyeball located therein...
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....
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...
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...
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....
It has been said that every man alive, from dunny cleaner to High Court judge, has at some stage in his life dreamed of rolling down the road on a...