Features

YEAR: 1982. // LOCATION: Nogaro circuit, paddock gates, France. Things had been growing tense in the world of motorcycle racing – on the riders’ side frustrations were rising to almost pique in Grand Prix. Riders were fed up with a promoter-biased recipe of dangerous tracks and poor money. By the late 1970s Kenny Roberts tried…

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YEAR: You tell us // LOCATION: Where do you reckon? We will start you off with Ago next to Read but after that, it’s over to you. Yes, it’s another in our long line of ‘email Malc with the names of everyone on the entire grid’ archive shots. Amusingly, it means that Malc gets a…

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YEAR: 1961 // One has the line, the other wants it more. Jim Redman and Tom Phillis ring the necks of their 298cc Honda 4s in 1961, shoulder-to-shoulder in the Race of the Year. For Jim this was three years before he (arguably) reached the headiest of heights in his career. For Tom it was…

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Words: Chris Pereira Photographs: Mortons Media Archive and Chris Pereira Originally an agricultural engineer from Haynes in Bedfordshire, tall and good-looking and the epitome of the modern gladiator, Bob started racing at Cadwell Park in 1953 on a 500 Triumph Special. He started to get promising results in 1955 on an ex-Ted Davis G45 at…

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What made Bathurst’s Easter races the most important motorcycle destination in Australia? In the second feature of their two-part series, HAMISH COOPER and PHIL AYNSLEY go back to the Eighties to find out. Greg Pretty sits inside the concrete wall at Bathurst’s GTX Bend, sipping reflectively on a steel tin of Carton Draught while he…

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David Wallace’s documentary film about the Armoy Armada is an all-time biking classic.

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Without a shadow of doubt, they were the ‘dream team’ of Machin and Saunders garage.

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This is the first part of a series of new features, shining a light on some of the biggest and best players in the Classic Racing world.

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The finest product of one of Britain’s most established racing dynasties, Mick Boddice was rarely out of the results for over four decades of racing. Arguably he kept his best until last, as he recounted to Pete Crawford at his Kidderminster home. “I suppose my most memorable race was the Ulster GP, where I had…

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