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

Rules for rules’ sake

BLOW YOUR OWN

RARITEE Best Letter

CLASSIC COB • OUT IN THE SHED

Buzz Box OLD BIKES NEWS

The latest on Bulli…

Pheasant Wood gears up

NZ 2022 – the rush is on

Top spot to Procycles

VJMC HQ announced

Show stoppers at Shannons Auction

2021 Triumph Street Scramblers

Meet the new MT range

Mac Park makes ready

Philippe (Phil) John Reeves

David Bowen

Bill Burnett

Ken Adams

Trevor Flood

POWERED BY PERVERSITY • Despite suffering dehydration, delirium, dysentery, dengue fever and debilitating crashes, Jeff Munro was the first motorcyclist to complete a full lap of Australia.

For the Record

TWO FACES HAVE I • Rarely does a model combine sublime road manners with race track prowess. One such is the GPz900, which dominated Australian Production Racing for a period in the ‘eighties, and is today a sought-after classic.

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One-year wonder • Sunbeams are motorcycles unlike the others, and that’s as true about the High-Camshaft B-series bikes built by the Collier brothers’ AMC/Associated Motor Cycles concern during the Wolverhampton-derived marque’s brief sojourn in Southeast London between 1937 and 1943. Three of these years formed the first half of WW2, so AMC deserves some credit for what it achieved in the short time available to it.

An Italian frame up • No, Motoplast is not a special adhesive bandage for motorcycle injuries such as severe gravel rash. From Soncino, a province of Cremona in the Italian region of Lombardy, 60 kilometres east of Milan, Motoplast was a short-lived creation from the brothers Virginio and Gianfranco Stanga.

Rhiems-Gueux FRANCE • Normally we confine this series to Australasian circuits, but for this issue, we take an interlude to the lush Champagne region of France to look at a circuit with a fabulous history.

DUILIO AGOSTINI and the Australian connection

Fire Storm • “Haw, haw”, they chortled. Honda’s gone and copied a Ducati. Yeah right. Like Ducati copied a Harley, or a JAP 8/80, or a Vincent. Because the V-twin concept is as old as motorcycling itself, and the variations are myriad, and continuous. They just keep coming.

VTR: Very Temporary Relationship

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All that glitters… • When the very first Earls Court Motorcycle Exhibition in London was announced for September 1937, it was as if to broadcast that the austerity of the ‘thirties, which had begun with the Great Depression, was a thing of the past. Not that outrageous opulence was the official theme, but there was definitely an air of optimism and a touch of flamboyance here and there.

Return of the Meteor • With Royal Enfield celebrating 120 years of continuous manufacturing this year, it is entirely appropriate for the company to introduce its latest offering, the Meteor 350. This model follows on from the very successful 650cc Interceptor and Continental. They also introduced the rugged Himalayan adventure bike to break into that lucrative adventure touring market. Now, add this learner approved 350cc Meteor to the fold.

More please! • It’s hard to believe the MT-09 is eight years...