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Old Bike Australasia

Issue 82
Magazine

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 82

BLOW YOUR OWN • LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

CLASSIC COB • OUT IN THE SHED

BUZZ BOX OLD BIKE NEWS

Brothers in arms • Suppose you were a budding privateer road racer in the mid-1950s and looking for your next ride. Easy: why not just write to the imperious Count Corrado Agusta in Italy and ask to buy two works replicas of his company’s first world championship-winning motorcycle? Of course he would say no. But what if you wrote to him again and he said yes?

THINK SMALL • As far back as 1966, Honda could see an emerging market, albeit, at the time, a small one.

A PAIR FROM PRAGUE • It was the collapse in 1929 of the German Winklhofer & Jaenicke company, who marketed their products under the Wanderer brand, that inadvertently brought JAWA into being.

GREATEST EVER SINGLE? • Five straight World Championships. That’s the enviable record of a motorcycle that was never beaten from the time of its conception to the point of it being mothballed. The 350cc Moto Guzzi is perhaps the singularly most successful racing motorcycle of all time, and an object lesson in sublime simplicity and brilliance of execution.

The hills are calling Mount Kembla NSW • No single factor had a bigger impact on the sport in New South Wales than the infamous Speedway Control Bill which came into force on April 2nd, 1959. Overnight, circuits that had existed in peace and harmony for decades were wiped out, and nowhere was the blow felt keener than in Scrambles, which were in the process of morphing into Moto Cross.

Battle of the birds • Is it really twenty years since the GSX1300R (also known as the Hayabusa, after the fearless dive-bombing bird of Japan) smashed through the speed barriers to become the fastest-ever production motorcycle?

V FOR VICTOR • When the gritty Jeffrey Victor Smith (later MBE) annexed the 1964 and 1965 500cc World Motocross Championships against formidable opposition, it was only natural that BSA would endeavour to cash in on that success.

C’est si bon! • The name Django, in the dialect of the European gypsies, means “I wake up”. So it’s reasonable to assume that this classy scooter brings a new awareness of what is required to get about sensibly in today’s traffic cauldron.

OUT’N’ABOUT • Welcome to Old Bike Australasia Out’n’about – a forum of people, places, history and happenings.

Riding the Murder Road • The desolate and deserted Marlborough-Sarina Road in central Queensland, known by almost all travellers of a certain era as the “horror stretch”, was once a place of fear and death.

Honda Welcome Plaza • The Honda Welcome Plaza, Aoyama-Itchome, is a showroom in central Tokyo which is a great place to visit when in Japan.

A Gentleman’s Express

Tim Thearle: a brighter spark • My father (and possibly your father) used to say, “Ninety per cent of carburettor troubles are in the magneto”. It is an axiom that has stuck with me all my life.

GREAT GIFT IDEA • SUBSCRIBE NOW!

Reliving the good old days

Sidecars star

Curtain raiser for the titles

Top track, hard racing

Dirt shifting at Broadford

Three days of bush bashing

Ascent in York

Brilliant Bulli just gets better

Top time in the Hawkesbury

Simply the...


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Frequency: Every other month Pages: 116 Publisher: Nextmedia Pty Ltd Edition: Issue 82

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  • Release date: September 25, 2019

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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 82

BLOW YOUR OWN • LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

CLASSIC COB • OUT IN THE SHED

BUZZ BOX OLD BIKE NEWS

Brothers in arms • Suppose you were a budding privateer road racer in the mid-1950s and looking for your next ride. Easy: why not just write to the imperious Count Corrado Agusta in Italy and ask to buy two works replicas of his company’s first world championship-winning motorcycle? Of course he would say no. But what if you wrote to him again and he said yes?

THINK SMALL • As far back as 1966, Honda could see an emerging market, albeit, at the time, a small one.

A PAIR FROM PRAGUE • It was the collapse in 1929 of the German Winklhofer & Jaenicke company, who marketed their products under the Wanderer brand, that inadvertently brought JAWA into being.

GREATEST EVER SINGLE? • Five straight World Championships. That’s the enviable record of a motorcycle that was never beaten from the time of its conception to the point of it being mothballed. The 350cc Moto Guzzi is perhaps the singularly most successful racing motorcycle of all time, and an object lesson in sublime simplicity and brilliance of execution.

The hills are calling Mount Kembla NSW • No single factor had a bigger impact on the sport in New South Wales than the infamous Speedway Control Bill which came into force on April 2nd, 1959. Overnight, circuits that had existed in peace and harmony for decades were wiped out, and nowhere was the blow felt keener than in Scrambles, which were in the process of morphing into Moto Cross.

Battle of the birds • Is it really twenty years since the GSX1300R (also known as the Hayabusa, after the fearless dive-bombing bird of Japan) smashed through the speed barriers to become the fastest-ever production motorcycle?

V FOR VICTOR • When the gritty Jeffrey Victor Smith (later MBE) annexed the 1964 and 1965 500cc World Motocross Championships against formidable opposition, it was only natural that BSA would endeavour to cash in on that success.

C’est si bon! • The name Django, in the dialect of the European gypsies, means “I wake up”. So it’s reasonable to assume that this classy scooter brings a new awareness of what is required to get about sensibly in today’s traffic cauldron.

OUT’N’ABOUT • Welcome to Old Bike Australasia Out’n’about – a forum of people, places, history and happenings.

Riding the Murder Road • The desolate and deserted Marlborough-Sarina Road in central Queensland, known by almost all travellers of a certain era as the “horror stretch”, was once a place of fear and death.

Honda Welcome Plaza • The Honda Welcome Plaza, Aoyama-Itchome, is a showroom in central Tokyo which is a great place to visit when in Japan.

A Gentleman’s Express

Tim Thearle: a brighter spark • My father (and possibly your father) used to say, “Ninety per cent of carburettor troubles are in the magneto”. It is an axiom that has stuck with me all my life.

GREAT GIFT IDEA • SUBSCRIBE NOW!

Reliving the good old days

Sidecars star

Curtain raiser for the titles

Top track, hard racing

Dirt shifting at Broadford

Three days of bush bashing

Ascent in York

Brilliant Bulli just gets better

Top time in the Hawkesbury

Simply the...


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