Published on November 30th, 2007 | by Boris
It’s been a while since I addressed the lumpenproles personally. It’s not very sporting to poke fun at the slow kids in class, but it does grant me some schadenfreude at their grotesque worthlessness. And since... Read More →
Published on November 28th, 2007 | by Al
…Continued from THE HOSSACK FRONT END Norman Hossack built a BSA Bantam out of bits when he was a twelve year old schoolboy in Rhodesia. He bought a Greeves trail bike, raced a Ducati 250, and... Read More →
Published on November 18th, 2007 | by Al
…Continued from THE TRAILING LINK FORK Indian were one of the first motorcycle manufacturers in the world. They had to grapple with the problem of providing suspension to their motorcycles early in the piece, and they... Read More →
Published on November 11th, 2007 | by Al
History of the Front End IV: leading and trailing links... Read More →
Published on November 5th, 2007 | by Al
…Continued from HUB CENTRE STEERING In 1918, Carl Neracher designed a revolutionary motorcycle. He called it the Ner-a-Car. Get it? Ha. It had a 221cc two stroke engine. It had an infinitely variable friction drive transmission.... Read More →
Published on October 28th, 2007 | by Al
Al presents a bit of tech history in History of the Front End Part I: the girder fork... Read More →
Published on September 15th, 2007 | by Al
BIKE ME! presents a brief history of the Honda Racing Corporation... Read More →
Published on August 9th, 2007 | by Dino
Dino works out how to go racing on the cheap. A bike, leathers and forty bucks should do it... Read More →
Published on July 31st, 2007 | by Boris
As I hinted in my last column, the money-sucking bureaucracy of the NSW RTA was about to metastasise into an Orwellian Ministry of Truth. It would then set about altering the way society viewed the... Read More →
Published on June 30th, 2007 | by Boris
It would surprise no-one in NSW to know that the current Roads Minister, Eric ‘The Bus Lane Blaster’ Roozendaal, is quite a shiny melon. When some 10,000 car-driving cat-rapists were recently smashed with speeding fines for... Read More →
