SMARTEN UP YOUR EYES WITH BMW Now this is what I call head-up navigation. BMW Motorrad is demonstrating what it is calling “ConnectedRide Smartglasses” at BMW Motorrad Days in Berlin this weekend with release imminent at a price of EUR ¤690.00 (around A$1130). You’ll need a fat wallet, but you won’t need a BMW to use the glasses. They connect to your smartphone via Bluetooth and an app., and they will display information onto the glass’s lens using head-up display technology.

THERE ARE MOTORSPORT EVENTS, AND THEN THERE’S THE ISLE OF MAN TT.WORDS – RENNIE SCAYSBROOK PHOTOGRAPHY – ANDRE BERNARD Rennie and his Wilson Craig Honda ride through the daunting Ballagarey corner at 220 km/h. ERNEST HEmINgWAY ONcE quIppEd, “There are only that, and exclude the barbarity of “There are only two sports: mountaineering and the Isle of Man TT; all the rest are merely games.” fastest, and deadliest motorcycle race in the world. Indeed, it’s so extreme it makes regular motor racing look decidedly boring by comparison.

RENNIE SCAYSBROOK RETURNS TO THE ISlE OF MAN TO TAKE ON THE FASTEST AND MOST DANGEROUS RACE IN THE WORlD ON A 1000CC SUPERBIKE.WORDS – RENNIE SCAYSBROOK PHOTOGRAPHY – DOUBLE RED, RYAN CRAWLEY, JON PENNAN, DAVE PURVES, TRACEY HARRISON AND ANDRE BERNARD Eyes on the road… Rennie focuses ahead for the start of the Superstock TT. THE ISlE OF MAN At 60.72km-long, the Isle of Man TT Mountain Course is by far the most dangerous track on the planet and thus commands a level of respect other tracks can only dream of.

LET FREEDOM ROAR HARLEY-DAVIDSON – THE DEFINITIVE TIMELINEPHOTOGRAPHY – HARLEY-DAVIDSON Harley-Davidson is about so much more than just transport. IT’S HIGHLY UNLIKELY ANYONE has the Rolex logo tattooed on their shoulder. Or the Lego one.Or the words “Rolls-Royce”. But there are millions of people who have Harley-Davidson inked into their hides. Among motorcyclists, it is The most recognizable brand of bike.So instantly identifiable,Harley-Davidson itself eschewed using the word “Harley-Davidson” on its famous bar-and-shield device a few years back.The symbol itself was enough.

IT’S NOT A SUBMARINE ANY LONGERWORDS – BORIS MIHAILOVIC PHOTOGRAPHY – DEAN ‘BOY BAND’ WAlTERS The daytime running light is the Moto Guzzi eagle. RIGHT, SO FIRST THING first. It’s pronounced “Moh – toh Gooh-tzi”,not “Mowda Guhzee”. Now that’s out of the way, let me state it is common knowledge among motorcyclists that Moto Guzzi riders are the submariners of the motorcycle world. Like real submariners, they live a truth denied to others. Brave or crazy, or chunks of both, they’re fun to have a drink with until they’re not. Then you have to use a chair to subdue them.

FLYING HIGH ON THE WAY TO TEMORAWORDS & PHOTOS – THE BEAR THE UNQUESTIONABLY MAIN ATTRACTION Temora airport was the site of the biggest and longest lasting RAAF Elementary Flying Training School during World War 2. It was called 10 EFTS and was established in May 1941. Training ended in May 1945 and a total of 2741 pilots were trained on Tiger Moths at Temora.

WORDS & PHOTOS – TUG MCCLUTCHIN Don’t underestimate the all-road ability of Yamaha’s 300cc scooters. I HATE PUBLIC TRANSPORT.I’m violently emphatic about that. Mainly because you have to share it with a lot of people with you otherwise wouldn’t choose to sit beside. And being a motorcyclist I am, by my very nature, a relatively solitary creature. Most of us are. You’re nodding, aren’t you?

THUNDER BOLT’S WAY IS ALL VERY WELL, BUT GRAVEL IS BETTERWORDS & PHOTOS – THE BEAR This is where the story starts, on Gloucester Road just out of Wingham. THERE WAS A TIME when an adventure bike, or even a dirt bike, would have been just right for Thunderbolt’s Way. It was the theoretically tar, but the surface was so badly chopped up that many road bikes found their suspensions … inadequate In fact, I remember a time when the last 20km north to Nowendoc was surfaced with a particularly aggressive lot of jagged black rocks,but that’s probably going back a little too far…..

SEA LAKE IN THE MALLEEWORDS & PHOTOS – COLIN WHELAN SO,YOU WANT A feel – good story? Wanna read something inspiring? Sit your arse down and let me tell you about the and the pub of Sea Lake. In 2015 the hardware store in the main street of Sea Lake closed its doors pretty much overnight leaving a hole in this small farming town in the Mallee district of western Victoria.