On September 6, 1956, a 27-year-old Texan named Johnny Allen squeezed into a homemade streamliner on the Bonneville Salt Flats...
Whenever I think about the early days of American motorcycle racing, I picture some guy in a wool sweater and...
Between 1958 and 1974, one small factory in the Italian town of Cascina Costa won the premier class of motorcycle Grand Prix racing seventeen years running. No other manufacturer has come close to that streak before or since. Mike Hailwood’s four consecutive 500cc World Championships sat right in the middle...
The Suzuki GSX-R750 made an immediate impact when it reached dealerships for the 1985 model year. Before it arrived, building...
It was a hot, seedy day in Southwestern Ontario. I was yoinking my Yamaha R3, Baby Shark, into a sprinter...
All photos courtesy of Jason Lau In 2017, a popular moto blog that I was running at the time was invited to participate in a group ride across the Rajasthan desert in India. There was an official photographer on the odyssey, too. Being an old hat at moto blogging by...
Daryl Villanueva is a guy that’s very hard to pin down. Just when you think you have him figured out,...
Those not in the know might call it ‘panel beating’ or ‘smash repairs’. But to do so would be like...
**Photos courtesy of Jason Lau Even for Aussies, Tasmania is pretty much the end of the earth for a multitude of reasons. It’s far enough south to make it seriously cold in winter and it’s wild as all get-out once you leave the cities and it’s the least populous state...
**All photos are courtesy of Christine Gabler With the rise of phone cameras, literally anyone these days can take a...
Fame is a real litmus test. Think of it as a crucible that melts down a person to their base...
It was my Dad’s birthday a few days ago. I was on the phone to him from my ‘home office’ (think garage full of bikes, second-hand rugs and music gear) in Sydney’s inner west wishing him all the best. ‘What are you up to?’ he asked. ‘Well, if you really...
If the reveal of BMW’s contentious R18 proved one thing, it’s that bobber-style motorcycles aren’t going anywhere in a hurry....