Australian Motorcycle News - June 21, 2018

16 amcn.com.au

BUSY COVERS WEREclearlypopularasweracedouto

the noughties and into the second decade of the 21st-cent

Just take a look at this cracker. Matt Sheilds was in the Big

Chair for this issue, and Sir Alan Cathcart had just enjoyed

giving Triumph’s new Speed Triple a right-royal thrashing

its world launch.

The lead news story was the offi cial reveal of Ducati’s new

Diavel model. It was little more than a teaser by Ducati, wh

released just the single photograph of the new power cruis

a shot of its rear-end with heavy use of shadows to hide the

details. The bike was due to be revealed to the world in all i

high-horsepower beauty a week later at the EICMA show in

Milan. Mark Gardiner took us on a trip down memory lane,

along Route 66 in the annual Cannonball Run for pre-

motorcycles. Darryl Flack also told the story that never get

old, Micheal Doohan’s rough-and-tumble journey to becom

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Round the traps

NewsJulia Gillard became Australia’s

first female Prime Minister, bringing joy to

females and gingers around the country.

Jessica Watson (pictured) did a brilliant job

of sailing solo around the world, even if NSW

Ports Minister Paul McLeay called her Jessica

Simpson in State Parliament. Too much

television perhaps, Minister?

Sport The Melbourne Storm was stripped

of two NRL premiership titles when it was

discovered they had knowingly breached the

salary cap. A French horse called Americain

fl ew into Australia and left with the 150th

Melbourne Cup stuff ed in its chaff bag. And

Australia’s bid to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup

was rejected – in favour of Qatar! How much

did our bid cost?

COVER

Our big story was Sir

Al at the launch of the

new 2011 Triumph

Speed Triple

Era tech

3D televisions entered the marketplace, and the

ndustry thought we’d be queueing up to don glasses

h red and blue plastic lenses. Within a few years,

y household in the world would have a 3D

elevision and content producers would soon begin

filming its programs and covering sports using 3D

technology. But consumers didn’t buy in, and within

just a few years it was all but dead.

On sale

27Oct-9Nov, 2010

Editor: Matt Shields

ERA

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25 years old.

Suzuki’s popular

GSX-R (Gixxer)

range celebrated

a quarter of a

century. Just

don’t get Editor

Dobie talking

about the 1985

GSX-R750 he

owned and then

sold during

a moment of

madness.

He

said

that? Troy Corser was enjoying his new

WSBK challenge with the BMW

Motorrad team

“I don’t feel like I’m

fi nished yet, and

I still have more

seasons in me”

How much?

The average cost of a litre of petrol

in 2010 was $1.27, not much different

to what we are paying eight years later.

Unless, of course, you decide to fi ll up

on payday, before a long weekend,

during school holidays, or outside

the CBD, when the price suddenly

skyrockets. All coincidental, of course.

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