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V8 Supercars stars Craig Lowndes and Rick Kelly, former GP rider Daryl Beattie, Australian Superbike riders Troy Herfoss and Jamie Stauffer and MX riders Dylan Long and Jay Wilson have helped launch the Honda Grom. The smallest adult bike in the fleet has arrived in red, yellow or grey at the introductory price of $3999 …
The golden days of motorcycle racing in Australia will be rekindled when “Mr Superbike” Rob Phillis returns to ride in the 2015 Australian Historic Motorcycle Road Racing Championships. Event ambassador and GP legend Daryl Beattie says it will be the first time Robbie has raced in South Australia since “those great days of the early 1990s …
Historic motorcycles are booming in popularity and former motorcycle GP winner Daryl Beattie is backing that popularity as ambassador for this year’s Australian Historic Road Racing Championships. The meeting will be hosted by the Historic Motor Cycle Racing Register of SA from October 8-11 at Mallala Motorsport Park, just outside Adelaide. More than 250 riders are …
Veteran V8 Supercars superstar Craig Lowndes has just completed a 1500km motorcycle adventure through the centre of Australia to Darwin for next weekend’s round (June 19-21, 2015). Craig has long been a motorcycle fanatic, riding from his farm to work in Brisbane on a cruiser, doing track days on his sports bike or railing berms on …
A petition to Network Ten to show more coverage of the Moto2 and Moto3 may fall on deaf ears, says MotoGP commentator and former Grand Prix motorcycle racer Daryl Beattie. The petition was started after complaints from viewers that Ten did not show the Moto3 in which 19-year-old Townsville rider Jack Miller is leading the …
Racing legend Daryl Beattie is going hard-core Outback riding and he wants you to come along! The former Grand Prix motorcycle racer plans seven adventure rides this year with his new travel company, Daryl Beattie Adventures. He says he has cleared some of his commitments with the Ten Network so he can fit in the …
Don’t get excited about 2003 World Supersport champion, 10-time World Superbike race winner and MotoGP winner Chris Vermeulen coming out of semi-retirement. Rumours circulated a while ago that the 31-year-old, semi-retired Sunshine Coast cattle farmer would be riding for the Suter-BMW MotoGP team this year after scoring a fill-in ride for them at Le Mans …