A Man and His Norton
It was in the wide cabin of an F100 Ford that it happened, while we were plugging across Melbourne with some trail bikes in the back. A Norton cut between...
1976-1984/1986-1992 BMW R100RS
The new flagship of the small BMW fleet is really some motorcycle, as it ought to be for a cool $4500 on the road. It is new in several regards,...
1979 Honda CBX1000: Touring in the Fast Lane
This was no jaunt; no weekend parade across two states to wash out the brain beans. This was an Open Road extravaganza. Some 5000 km in four weeks laid back...
1976 Honda CB750F1 Super Sport
It was Soichiro Honda who first gave the world the modern multi for the masses when in 1969 the incredible (at the time) 750 four-cylinder CB750 upstaged the opposition. It...
Behind Bars: Cannonball, One Helluva Blast!
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....
1978 Kawasaki Z1-R
Kawasaki has launched the Silver Bullet as its answer to the opposition's total performance quest. The Z1-R makes the King Kawasaki into an instant classic and one of the best...
Behind Bars: Racing – Proof of What?
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....
Kel Wearne
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...
1980 BMW R100S
For Captain Flashbulb, (aka Kel Wearne) long-distance rally runs on BMW’s R100S and RT created new impressions of the Bavarian Boxer in a realm beyond mere massed panniers and fairings....