BIKES YOU’VE NEVER SEEN BEFORE: 2009 ATK INTIMIDATOR 700cc TWO-STROKE
If you’re looking for a little more horsepower out of your trusty two-stroke, this one pumped ot 78 horsepower. It was intimidating to say the least
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If you’re looking for a little more horsepower out of your trusty two-stroke, this one pumped ot 78 horsepower. It was intimidating to say the least
A reworked 1983 V-twin 350cc Moto Morini turned into a resto-mod motocross bike by Rudolfo Covallero
The U.S. Marine Corps bike that owes a bike thanks to Danny LaPorte, Bruce McDougal and Chuck Bowers
If you were 16 years old in Rome in the early 1970s, you would have dreamed of owning a Tiger Cross
Or perhaps you remember this Hungarian-built motocross bike as the Danuvia, Tunde, Csepel, Panni or Pannonia
Two brothers, not named Vertematti, build a super-exotic 450 four-stroke out of chromoly, aluminum and carbon fiber
A family that builds their own bike from scratch has something to be very proud of
It used 50cc engines designed by Adalberto Garelli and rode the initial 50cc wave in Italy in the 1950s—it’s cross wasn’t much of a cross
The bike that lived many lives from Wassell to Tyran to Penton Trials to the Mudlark to the Woodsman
One of the greatest racing motorcycles of the 1950s. Mondial, was reduced to making Boy Racer’s to stay afloat
Izh stands for Izhstalzavod, but don’t mess with the “Presidium of the Supreme Council of the National Economy of the USSR”
If you thought that upside-down forks and monoshock rear suspension were new, then don’t look at this 64-year-old bike
In 1966 Ducati made the move to design machines with the off-road look that was popular with young Italians
The Tyran 125 MX was designed by Ted Wassell, who designed a series of bikes from his W.E Wassell Limited company in Lichfield, near Birmingham, England.
During the explosive growth of off-road riding in the early 1970s Giorgio Mazzilli made his mark… actually 400 of them
And even if you had seen one before, you would have had to look quick because it changed its name right in the middle of its 7-year run
When you love a motorcycle brand you will go to any lengths to keep it from falling into the dark recesses of history
The Yamaha YZ125 that never saw production or the light of day—just one night race at Irwindale Raceway in 1975
A name from Shakespeare, the Red Hunter engine, an embarrassing end & its name on the Ariel Atom sports car
They marketed the Moto Trans-AMA in Italy by a saying the majority of its bikes were sold in the USA
You know it as a bicycle, but it was actually a motorcycle company until 1967
The Suzuki 125 works bike that never saw production and once you see it, you’ll know why
The price for thinking too far out of the box is that they give your idea a funny name and it disappears in three years
Built by an honest to goodness genius, but it still couldn’t make it in the motocross world
What do you get when old world Italian craftsmen try to become part of the mass production motocross business? Trouble
Steal Hodaka’s ball reciever transmission, a PW50 chassis design and a Yamaha monoshock and you have a Riedel-Imme — the trick is to steal it from them 15 years before they thought of it
Francesco Villa worked his way up through the ranks of Ducati, Mondial and Montesa before building his own bikes — Moto Villa
A special kit designed to transform a motocross bike into a freestyle bike. First step, buy hacksaw
A bike that was very good when it was first built, but due to a change in fate became a winner based on the one thing it did well
Would it have been any less of a world beating brand if it was called a Gellera instead of a Gilera