The Shepsters Team went for a little ride recently in a beautiful Melbourne Winters’ Day. You know the deal: horizontal rain, hail, snow in the high country, blistering sunshine, not to be confused with a Melbourne Summers’ Day, which is exactly the same. Read more »
Honda GL 1000 Gold Wing 1975
It was some time during the photographing of long-dead now-non-flying insect corpses that we at Shepsters remembered about our love of the Goldwing. Read more »
Suzuki RV 90 1972
Now this bike has a history at Shepsters. In fact, this was the first bike ever wheelied by Mr Shep Shepster himself at a completely illegal age of 15 in South Africa. Read more »
Kawasaki Zephyr 750 1991
We at Shepsters can't admit to being much in the way inclined towards academia, our Latin for instance is barely anything beyond peritus, and our conjugation is appalling: I zephyr, you zephyred, he/she zephyerered. What the hell is a zephyr? Read more »
Harley-Davidson S 125 1949
There are girl's pushbikes in my suburb with fatter wheels. This isn't your typical Harley: a skinny runt of a 125cc single cylinder engine that had a 12 year run and offered with, for the first ever time on a Harley Davidson, the hand clutch/foot shift gear change. Read more »
Kawasaki KZ 750 1980
In 1980 Kawasaki had two very different KZ750 bikes: the KZ750-G parallel twin, the engine of which had been on the market since 1976; and the new in-line four, known by the postfix E. Read more »
Triumph T 140 V Bonneville 1977
Ahh Bonnie, what a lovely lady. Very little compares to the style and quality of British manufacturing that eventually saw itself run headlong into a ravine. So many companies have trod the same path. Read more »
Ariel Square Four 1959
This was my Dad's first motorbike, that's how old this motorbike actually is. Birmingham is renowned for the tempestuous, global-rockers Black Sabbath, producing heavy hitting heart-racing g blood-curdling ballads. The Aerial is not Black Sabbath, yet it isn't a war pig either. Read more »
Yamaha FZ1 Fazer 2006
I wanted this bike before I even started the engine. I'd done my research trawling through various internet sites, but the Fazer stood out: a liquid-cool liquid-cooled naked beast. Read more »
BMW R 69 S 1969
"All too much of the man-made is ugly, inefficient, depressing chaos" Read more »
