Australian Motorcycle News — January 03, 2018

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“Really shocked. I could

see the betting polls and

was hoping for top five,

maybe secretly hoping

for third.”

Three-time world superbike champ

Jonathan Rea after finishing

runner-up in the BBC’s Sports

Personality of the Year awards.

“It’s time to get back

and race at home

in front of a Phillip

Island home crowd.

It’s been a long time.”

Troy Corser, speaking

ahead of this year’s

highly anticipated AMCN

International Island Classic.

We have a full test of the Australian Land Speed

Record-setting Irving Vincent Black Lightning

which we reported was going under the

hammer in Las Vegas a couple of issues ago.

Read it in our new regular Iron Legends section,

starting on page 30.

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Former Aussie motocross

and supercross

champion Matt Moss has

been slapped with a four-

year ban after testing

positive to the banned

substance Ostarine,

which mimics the effects

of anabolic steroids.

The creator of the

legendary motorcycle

film On Any Sunday,

Bruce Brown, passed

away in his sleep on 10

December, aged 80.

Aussie 1970s road racing

legend Murray Sayle

recently celebrated 30

years of service with

Kawasaki Australia.

Ducatihasunveiledplansto

open a 10,700 square metre

theme park in north east

Italy called The Ducati World

Showcase.

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“My mechanic Joe

has been working

hard on this [bike]

and I need to make

his efforts worth it.”

Toby Price just days out from

his 2018 Dakar campaign.

Update:

A Cure for Freyja

The MotoGP paddock is continuing to support the

very sick six-year-old Canberran girl by donating

another round of memorabilia for the cause. Freyja

Christiansen underwent Protocol Immunotherapy

at the Sydney Children’s Hospital, before becoming

the youngest child in Australia to have major robotic

surgery at Chris O’Brien Lifehouse at Sydney’s Royal

Prince Alfred Hospital. After the surgery, and thanks

to the money raised with the help of the motorcycle

community, she will travel to the UK for Proton

Therapy assessment before heading to Prague for

the therapy.

“When we started helping the fundraising group

our goal was to make the Proton Therapy possible.

It looks like we have achieved our goal,” Freyja’s

friend and MotoGP Öhlins technician Patrick

Primmer said. Stay tuned for more details about the

upcoming second auction.

Whowozit?

Which former ASBK champion was

also the first Aussie to win the AMA

title? Clue: he did it in 1994.

Turntopage127fortheanswer,andaninterview

with the man himself.

Turn to page 46 for our feature on a machine that

some racers considered a two-wheeled terror.

Licence

hike

Motorcycling Australia
has increased the price for
a national racing licence.
Theriseappliestothesix
National Annual Licences,
Senior National, Junior
National, Senior Restricted
National, Junior Restricted
National, Recreation
Licence1andMechanic.
Mechanic licence is a flat
fee across each state, and
will provide licence holders
access to the organisation’s
insurance scheme at
MA-permitted activities
andevents.SeetheMAweb
page for full details.

No ABS,

no way

Anti-lock (ABS) or combined braking

systems (CBS) will be mandatory on

all new motorcycles sold in Australia

from November 2019, regardless

of the machine’s capacity. Despite

still being 11 months away from

implementation, the move was

published some eight years ago in the

National Road Safety Strategy 2011-

2020 and brings Australia in line with

Europe, which mandated ABS on all

motorcycles greater than 125cc back

in January 2016.

THINK

QUICK

Can you name the first modern racebike to

break the 300km/h mark?