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Flashback: Radio Rider and newspaper classifieds
October 2, 2025 – Guy 'Guido'
Allen
We tripped over this during a recent attempt to clean out the shed – an exercise that was an utter failure. It's a clip of the 13 February, 1993, edition of the motorcycle section of The Age newspaper (Melbourne, Australia), which featured every Saturday.
By this time the famous
rivers of gold (the classifieds) were dwindling thanks
to a tough economy and competition from specialist
classified magazines such as Just Bikes and
then Motorcycle Trader. Then they got hit with
the popular uptake of internet use and a tsunami of
digital competition.
Motorcycle columnist
Damien Kingsbury (now Professor K) wrote a piece on
3RRR's then weekly half-hour show Radio Rider,
while there were plenty of tasty offerings in the ads.
One thing we noticed was
the price of the 1979 Ducati 900 GTS, offered for
Au$6500 (US$4300, GB£3200, €3700).
You don't see many of them around, however Bikesales has one advertised at Au$20,000 (US$13,200, GB£9800, €11,300).
See our
feature on its predecessor, the 860 GT
Plus the
1985 Mike Hailwood Replica Mille in our shed
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