Our new web site
No, we’re not abandoning our traditional print format, just adding to it. Our brand new website, which you can find atwww. oldbikemag.com.au, is now up and running after several months of hard work by the team at NextMedia, and the exceptional talents of our Art Director Mat Clancy, who is the man responsible for the quality artwork, design and production that you have enjoyed in OBA for the past twelve years.
In creating the new website, our aim was to make it not just informative, but simple to use. You’ll find features from back issues on featured bikes, personalities, examples of our superpopular Tracks in Time regular feature, product reviews, new model tests, up-coming events and much more. The web also gives us the opportunity to incorporate video content and links, and the first example of this is up and running now – shot and edited by Mat at the recent International Festival of Speed. And this is just the beginning – we’ll be expanding and improving the site continuously.
Of course, nothing beats the tactility of good old paper, so you can also take out a subscription to OBA via the new website and have your fresh new copy delivered directly seven times per year. This saves you trudging down to the newsagent in the hope there’s a copy of OBA waiting for you – this magazine sells out quickly!
OBA is as much about personalities and human interest stories as it is motorcycles. In this issue you will read a story written by Frans Vandenbroek about his emotional attachment to a 1965 Honda CB160. From Long Beach, California to the “Killing Fields” of Vietnam, the Honda became his focus and point of remembrance. And we talk to Brian Collins; former speedway star and a man of great conviction who turned the motorcycle sales business in Australia on its head with innovation and foresight. With 10 children to feed and a growing number of employees, success in business was an absolute necessity!
Welcome to the next chapter in OBA’s continuing adventure.