WORLD SUPERBIKE SPECIAL

After 35 years of wishing, the dream of riding an RC30 comes true …

WORDS MARK BRACKS

THEY SAY you gotta be in it to win it and that’s exactly how one of Peter Howes’ immaculate and pristine Honda RC30s came into his hands. Often raced by Australian racing legend, Malcolm “Wally” Campbell and his son Scott, Peter actually won the bike in a raffl e. “I bought a raffle ticket for $20 — number 45! — in about 1991 or 92 and won Ed Miller’s race bike,” Peter explains. “Steve Tozer raced the bike as well, so it was a well-set-up machine. It has a Paul Hallam-built motor with modified heads and the porting and cam timing has been changed. It’s brilliant out of the box.” Back in the day both Miller and Tozer were handy racers. Tozer is a legend in Victorian racing. He was…

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