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The Sikh Motorcycle Club UK, working alongside the family of the late campaigner Gyani Sundar Singh Sagar (known as Gyani Ji) have organised a commemorative motorcycle ride in Manchester to mark 50...
Before superbikes, baggers, and adventure bikes, there was half a horsepower, a wooden frame, and two extra wheels.
John Stevenson (aka 5012094 SAC Stevenson J) looks back on a special year in his life. Many people I think have a special year – always to be remembered. It could be national, such as the 1966 football World Cup or it could be personal. Perhaps trivial, perhaps not. The pilot’s n…
There are motorcycles you remember because they were beautiful. Others stick with you because they were fast, or because they scared the hell out of you, or because somebody you knew had one and spent an unreasonable amount of time explaining why his was better than everybody els…
Yamaha's beloved SR has come in an array of sizes over the years, all closely re...
For this edition of Classic Ink, we are going to take a look back at ads for Suzuki’s awesome 1982 lineup of off-road machines. In 1982, I would have absolutely died to have this all-new Full Floating RM80. Hell, I would still love to have one in this condition to rip around on n…
The 2010 Yamaha YZ450F is not a bike that was released into a vacuum. There was more pre-release publicity about the 2010 Yamaha YZ450F than about any other bike in the history of the sport up to that time. If you don’t know what Yamaha changed for 2010, then you aren’t getting v…
Click on images to enlarge Classic Feets Minert. Classic motocross. Feets during the 1970 Trans-AMA series on his factory BSA. By Jody Weisel As a general rule I don’t recommend meeting your heroes up close and personal. As much as we glorify them for their prowess on a motorcycl…
Five-time 500 World Champion Roger DeCoster turned 82 a couple weeks ago. Think about that! Roger has been racing, testing or managing for well over 50 years. Plus, he has no intention of retiring any time soon. Although the film of Albert powering around the White Sands Motocros…
One man’s motocross scrapbook is pretty much the same as anothers. They all hold gems from the past, precious moments lost in time .Jody’s just feature a wider variety of brands. We hope that a look at Jody’s old photos will remind you of your good old days. Take this photo above…
For this edition of Classic Steel, we are going to take a look back at Honda’s all-new CR125R for 1993. The all-new CR125R offered tighter handling, improved power, upgraded suspension, and sleek new bodywork for 1993. Photo Credit: Honda The early 1990s were a great time to be r…
Almond Tinkler was a racer, inventor and engineer whose extraordinary ‘power egg’ motorcycle was unlike anything else at the 1927 TT – but exhaustion, breakdowns and bad luck prevented it from ever making the start line. TINKLER Almond Tinkler was a keen motorcyclist from the tim…
At the end of the 19th century George Featherstone was an ironmonger living in Bethnal Green but he had a son who was interested in the great strides that transportation was taking. It seems likely that it was John Featherstone who persuaded his father into producing a motorcycle…
From the 1930s through to the late 1950s, Ariel’s single-cylinder offering was one of Britain’s most enduring sporting singles. Words: Phil Turner Photographs: Gary Chapman/Mortons Archive The story of the Ariel Red Hunter is fundamentally a tale of two brilliant engineers: Val P…
Between 1958 and 1974, one small factory in the Italian town of Cascina Costa won the premier class of motorcycle Grand Prix racing seventeen years running. No other manufacturer has come close to that streak before or since. Mike Hailwood’s four consecutive 500cc World Champions…
How much do you know about this obscure Italian marque Moto Laverda was a glorious but relatively small Italian manufacturer which made a significant mark on the global motorcycle market during its... The post Moto Laverda appeared first on Motorcycle Mojo .
A brief history of the Daytona 200 Beach Course and Norton’s total dominance in the famous race. It’s been more than 60 years since a race was last held there, but should you ever go to Daytona... The post Norton Gets The Last Laugh appeared first on Motorcycle Mojo .
For this edition of Classic Ink, we are going to take a look back at some of Renthal’s moto ads from the 2000s. The 2001 season marked the changing of the guard in Supercross. Jeremy McGrath looked unstoppable early, winning two of the first three rounds and seemingly on his way …
The Suzuki GSX-R750 made an immediate impact when it reached dealerships for the 1985 model year. Before it arrived, building a faster motorcycle usually meant one thing, bolting a bigger engine into a heavier frame and accepting the extra weight as the cost of doing business. Su…
The Vindec Special was actually built in Germany by Köln-Lindenthaler Metallwerke AG of Cologne. However, it is an interesting footnote in British motorcycling history because its distribution in this country was handled by the South British Trading Company with the assistance an…
By the early 1990s, Ducati had already proven it could win. Raymond Roche took the World Superbike title in 1990, and Doug Polen backed it up in 1991 and 1992, both riding the factory’s V-twins. Then Scott Russell took a Kawasaki past them in 1993, leaving a small and financially…
Although not technically a manufacturer – the Bullpup was very much a one-off – we include it here for its interesting story and because it really is ‘once seen, never forgotten’! The Walker Bullpup at the Banbury Run in 1979… The Bullpup was built by Farnborough engineer Victor …
It turns out all sorts of riders chose Leathertogs, from women to professional racers at Daytona, and from cops to outlaws... The post The Lost Empire of Leathertogs, Part 3 first appeared on The Vintagent .
