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WORDS GEOFF SEDDON PHOTOS PETER STRÖM SWEDEN is the second home of the chopper. The summer riding season is short before the snow comes, with long winters providing plenty of opportunity for customising. Choppers have been part of the mix since the 1

WORDS ALAN CATHCART PHOTOS KEL EDGE TO BE invited to ride what is almost certainly the last 100 per cent original example of the most desirable production racer ever made is an act of unfathomable generosity and implied trust on the part of its new o

WORDS ALAN CATHCART PHOTOGRAPHY PHIL MASTERS IMAGINE the same individual racing both cars and bikes at Grand Prix level on alternate weekends with equal success. It’d be like Valentino Rossi racing a Ferrari to beat Hamilton and Vettel this week, the

WORDS GEOFF SEDDON PHOTOS PETE CAGNACCI/THROTTLE ROLL “THERE IS NO SHORTAGE OF TATTOOS, BEARDS AND PRETTY GIRLS, SO IT HAS A VERY COOL FEEL ABOUT IT” THROTTLE Roll celebrated its fifth year with a cracking day/night festival on Easter Saturday, the s

WORDS GEOFF SEDDON PHOTOGRAPHY JOHN DOWNS “IT DOESN’T REQUIRE TOO MUCH EFFORT TO FIT A 1200 BANDIT INTO A GSX-R750” BIKE builder James Mott of Hand Made Racers in Brisbane is careful not to describe his latest build, the HMR XRc 1200, as a replica of

WITH JAMIE McILWRAITH GOBSMACKED again. I really should only read motorcycle road tests that come with spoiler alerts warning of stupid facts up ahead. The bike test was of a 1690cc tourer — not a sports bike, but a lazy, fat-arsed tourer — and the t

WORDS GEOFF SEDDON PHOTOS ANTOINE TRUCHET “STANCE WAS BANG ON SO IT WAS TIME TO FOCUS ON MAKING IT A FUNCTIONAL MOTORCYCLE AGAIN” THE all-new 1200cc Triumph T120 was not yet in full production when the factory first approached Alec Sharp and Rafe Pug

WORDS & PHOTOS STUART ‘TANGLES’ GARRARD THE integration of Tangles’ home workshop into Old Mate Motorcycles in Mittagong is going well. Old mate Peter White and I enjoy getting our teeth into all manner of different problems and projects, and no two

WORDS GEOFF SEDDON PHOTOGRAPHY SIMON DAVIDSON THE vast outback salt flat that is Lake Gairdner in South Australia is a fickle mistress. The allure of having your way with her for as long as you dare is intoxicating. She is beautiful beyond imaginatio

WORDS & PHOTO GEOFF SEDDON TONY Bianco was three sheets to the wind when the pub talk turned to flat trackers and street trackers. “The younger guys think they’ve just reinvented street trackers, but some of us older blokes have been building them si

WORDS GEOFF SEDDON PHOTOGRAPHY HIROSHI KIKUI THE Mooneyes Yokohama Hot Rod Custom Show is the largest indoor custom car and motorcycle show in Japan and one of the coolest in the world, drawing an international celebrity crowd. Bikes have long been a

WORDS GEOFF SEDDON PHOTOGRAPHY ALASTAIR RITCHIE “WITH MANY PARTS MISSING OR DAMAGED, NICK DECIDED TO BUILD A TRACK BIKE INSTEAD” NICK O’Kane is an ex-pat Pom now residing in Riverside, California, where by day he is a senior sales executive for a wel

WORDS & PHOTOS RUSS MURRAY FROM the dawn of motorcycling, riders have raced each other to determine who was the fastest. We started on public roads, such as they were, but it wasn’t long before more formal arrangements were introduced. Amongst the ea