Opinion
After Mark Cotterell first approached me to write a "little something" for the first HEAVEN Inc. newsletter, and having agreed to do so, I then sat at a blank computer screen for what seemed a stupidly long time trying to think of a topic to write about that I haven't…
Thursday, 28 October 1999 22:30
The Guys who did Dolly the Sheep were just warming up
Written by Ray Ryan
THROUGH THE DUST
The guys who did Dolly the Sheep were just getting warmed up! By Ray Ryan
Hey, don't you just hate specials? Those bikes that slither into the light of day from dark, grubby garages where some crazed misfit has spent six months trying to create a two…
A couple of weeks ago I drove down to Broadford to have a squiz at the VIPER Pre 80. The fact that the Sunday motocross part of the program was canned because of a serious dust problem was kinda sad but the trip wasn't a total floperoo.
Yes folks, despite…
There's a lot to be said for having a bike that wins races. By that I don't actually mean a bike that you ride to win races yourself, but one which at least enjoys a reputation for having awesome handling, being blindingly fast or at the very worst is simply…
It only takes this one simple publication or a Just Bikes, either will bite and bite hard.
Before you know it you'll be hooked and you'll be checking your bank balance and forgetting your bills once you've reached the bike section. It's a rare day I forget to buy each…
Ahh Bugger it, I'll get right to the point. The Classic Motocross Commission of Motorcycling Australia has finally shown beyond all doubt that their idea of what Vintage Motocross is about and what the majority of the sport's enthusiasts believe it is about are two different things. Their insufferable arrogance…
Without even realising it I've often been an accomplice in crime.
That most heinous of all pursuits, according to Family Law Court legal eagles; namely helping your mates to retain a degree of ambiguity about the actual number of bikes they own. And what's more I know lots of other…
Sunday, 28 January 2001 22:16
Three rules plus commonsense, or How to Drive the Bus
Written by Ray Ryan
When you consider the absolute sham, which the Sydney Olympics seems hell bent on becoming, do you wonder how something so big and with so many rules, guidelines and committees could ever lose the plot?
Perhaps the answer lies in the question itself? What worries me even more is that…
You can race anything in Amcross - we threw in an '81 Maico and a geriatric rider to see just how far we could push it!
Ashenhurst has a cruel way of extracting revenge, knowing full well most true racers, no matter how old, possess egos way beyond their abilities…
FEATURE ARTICLE A FLAG MARSHAL'S PERSPECTIVE... It was a Sunday, of that I'm reasonably sure, in fact I'm positive because that was the day of the HEAVEN motocross meeting at Oran Park. I was standing in the pits, well lets not get to excited here, it was more of a…
DIRT BIKES plus DOLLARS$$$ Maicos… What is it about bloody Maicos? There are 35 of them in the HEAVEN Club (37 if you count a couple of "spares bikes") at least fifteen of them 490's! Now I didn't think there were that many Maicos ever imported into Australia in the…
As a thousand masts swayed under the sullen sky in the bays of Pittwater, one of our 'mates from the States' motored away from the dock of the Royal Motor Boat Club aboard the good ship Restless...
With a hefty cargo of beer and a brace of Bultaco boys (although…