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Tuned For Speed
Australian Road Rider
|August 2017
The man who knew more about making a bike go fast than anyone. And he was an Aussie
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When the world needed to know how to get unheard-of performance numbers out of motorcycle engines, it looked south. Right here, in the Land of Oz. And more specifically, one bloke: Philip Edward Irving.
Irving was an engineer and author, most famous for the Repco-Brabham Formula One and Vincent motorcycle engines. He also wrote the books
This story is from the August 2017 edition of Australian Road Rider.
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