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.

Old Bike Australasia

Bonanza bounces back

BLOW YOUR OWN LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

CLASSIC COB OUT IN THE SHED

New date for 2021 Suzuki VJMC National Rally

OBA Classic Challenge: The correct date!

Kiwi festival hits top gear

SA Festival powers ahead

Burt’s bikes for Shannons auction

Pheasant Wood date shift

Mac Park off, for now…

Show a smashing success

Sorry Harold

Bulli Auction forges ahead

Moto Guzzi’s century

Triumph gets dirty

Pyramid selling

Bikes lost to Pikes Peak

Marjory (Marj) Gaffey – Motorcycle Messenger

Mark Firkin

Norm Trigg

Bob Caslick

Doug Voss

The Bayliss Dynasty • Part One: Over the next two issues, we look at a family that dominated Sidecar Racing in the highly competitive era of the ‘seventies.

THE BIRTH OF THE LEGEND • If only motorcycles could talk. Were that the case, it would make the process of ascertaining just how this ultra-rare Honda came to eventually end up in The Netherlands, after its constituent parts were scattered far and wide over more than sixty years. So let’s go back to the beginning of this saga, to the Isle of Man TT of 1959.

The Soulful V-twin • Thirty years ago, “retro” wasn’t a commonly used term for motorcycles. The design trend that is now so prevalent was then more likely to be applied to fashion apparel or interior décor.

Alec Wise The brake man • Going fast is one thing, but for each action, there is an opposite reaction. In this case, stopping. The science of braking is understood by few, and championed by even fewer. Alec Wise was from the old school, and he knew his stuff.

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Hawkesbury Hill Climb Winmalee NSW • Seventy years ago, motorcycles invaded – just once – the car domain of the hill climb on the Springwood Road, a serpentine stretch in the Blue Mountains foothills with the sprawling western Sydney city of Penrith far below.

Missed chance? • The role of the two McCandless brothers from Northern Ireland, Rex – born in 1915 – and Cromie, six years younger, in providing Norton with the legendary Featherbed frame and swinging-arm rear suspension which transformed the way its motorcycles handled, has been well documented. But what’s less well known is that this was just one of several prototypes that the brothers created in Belfast in the immediate post war era, primarily for Norton, despite the fact that neither of them was ever employed directly by the Birmingham factory.

A Bologna Bonnie • Most enthusiasts would associate the name of Italjet with either quirky mini bikes or some seriously competitive off roaders and possibly overlook the very impressive 650cc four stroke twin that for four years in the late ‘sixties and early ‘seventies rolled off the Bolognese factory production lines. It carried the name of Grifon on its beautifully crafted side panels and it’s believed that this bike, owned by Roger Chapman, is possibly the only one of its kind in the UK.

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The Holland Track A side-valve adventure • In March of this year, a group of Old Bikes took on Western Australia’s iconic Holland Track, a popular 4WD trail that heads deep into the outback east of Perth. It was a test of...