Rob, Cris, Mark and myself having a buggy/landboard at Cape Bridgewater on the SW coast of Victoria. The beach is very flat and wide, about 3.5km long with carparking right at the edge of the beach. A really pretty spot too. It would be very busy in the summer holiday season – we were there just after school holidays had finished. Quite a good cafe on the edge of the beach too
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The more you learn about race cars, the more you see the same names pop up when it comes to engines. For instance, just one man headed Porsche’s race engine development from the late 1950s through the 1990s.P
This man is Hans Mezger. Sometimes you hear Porsche afficionados talk about a ‘Mezger engine’ – this refers to the water-cooled flat six that started in the 1990s Porsche GT1 Le Mans prototypes and then was adapted into the 911 GT3 road cars, up until the current 991 generation. Truth is, that was pretty much the last … More
A roadworthy version of a children’s toy car for has been built. John Bitmead constructed an adult-sized copy of a Little Tikes toy car, which takes petrol, has a tax disc, and can reach speeds of up to 70 mph.
If mountain bikers use saws and other tools, it’s often to create wood features in the forest. Julia Hofmann used them for a different reason, though: to finish her bachelor thesis. No, she didn’t assemble a series of wooden jumps and drops for school, but rather transformed a Series 2A Land Rover into her travelling bike caravan. Simply put, the German racer built her own dream vehicle, a two-wheeler’s four-wheeler that she’ll use to get to riding spots the world over. Below, she tells us the story of how it all came together … Video and more