Old Bike Australasia

Old Bike magazine is a must for those who ride as well as the dedicated enthusiast and rebuilder, covering everything from Vintage to early 1980s bikes - marvel at the restoration of machines that could still sit proudly on the showroom floor. Each issue brings you the latest news and results from recent events, race reports and Rally Roundup, along with new and old bike news and reviews, readers letters, Club Directory, What’s On and much, much more.

EDITOR’S LETTER

Old Bike Australasia • NUMBER 109

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

OUT IN THE SHED

Jan Blizzard honoured

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Greenfield collection for auction • Brain Greenfield, who died in Sydney in 2022, was a noted historian and inveterate collector of all things motorcycling, particularly Vincent-HRD related.

Bathurst circuit ‘on hold’ • Bathurst Regional Council has announced that the long-mooted ‘Second Circuit’ has been put on hold.

Ride Tassie with a legend • The Vintage Japanese Motorcycle Club has teamed up with Malcolm (Wally) Campbell to offer a ride like no other, says VJMC Tasmania’s Tony Mahoney.

FOMSA gets set to go • Offering a more diverse program for 2023-2024, the Festival of Motorcycling SA (FOMSA) has an exciting line up planned.

Changes at The Burt

Baskerville gears up for titles

Goulburn gets moving

BUZZ BOX Under the Chequered Flag

A CELLAR FULL OF HISTORY • Stepping into Malcolm Anderson’s neat, clean and well organised “shed” is quite a breathtaking experience. For this is no shed in the accepted sense of the word, but a mini museum of around a dozen or so motorcycles, each of which has a story to tell in relation to the Anderson family. It is also stacked with mementos and memorabilia collected over almost a century.

A WELL-SORTED MOTORCYCLE • Howard Moffat joined the RAAF in 1970, about the time BMW’s managers and shareholders were breathing their first sighs of relief as early sales figures began to justify their enormous and risky investment in both the all-new /5 motorcycle range and the factory in which to build it. Truth was, they hadn’t wanted to build a new motorcycle at all. They’d wanted to kill off motorcycle production altogether.

A FAST FIVE HUNDRED • It seems rather incredible that a massive factory that once produced the fastest standard production motorcycle in the world should end its days making kettles.

Buying a (new) New Hudson

Pigs that fly • When the nationalised Czech Jawa/CZ concern decided to enter the fashionable scooter market in the mid 1950s, it did so with characteristic disregard for the popular concept of what a scooter should look like. To most riders, scooters were Italian, either Vespa or Lambretta. They looked much the same and went much the same. And they were designed for utilitarian transport – to get from A to B and back again as cheaply as possible.

Suburban Stunt Show

Significant Special • Ever since the 1935 debut of the telescopic fork with hydraulic damping on a production motorcycle with BMW’s R12 and R17 models, and its subsequent adoption as the go-to solution for front suspension on powered two-wheelers the world over, there have been numerous attempts to find something better. But so far most of them, with the notable exception of BMW on several of its models, have drowned trying.

FATHER AND SON • This story is a latter chapter in the evolution of motorcycling triggered by the ground-breaking Yamaha DT1 in 1968.

2023 Harley-Davidson Road Glide ST Heavy metal thunder • Let’s establish one thing straight away. The Road Glide ST is a single purpose motorcycle, designed to transport the rider effortlessly along highways (not byways) in total comfort and luxury. It accomplishes this task with...