CLASSIC MOTOCROSS IRON: 1966 HUSQVARNA 360 VIKING
Husky used its 250cc development program to launch the 1966 Husqvarna 360 Viking. The Open class Husky was based on Torsten Hallman’s 250.
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Husky used its 250cc development program to launch the 1966 Husqvarna 360 Viking. The Open class Husky was based on Torsten Hallman’s 250.
In 1949 the communist commissars in Czechoslovakia forced privately owned Jawa to merge with rivals CZ and Eso
A group of four started the BPS brand, but a disagreement sent two of them off to build a competing motorcycle marque
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
An off-road bike with an engine that could either be a twin or a twingle, but no matter how you cut it, it weighed too much
That may seem like a strange name for a motocross bike, but Zundapp was a company that started life as a producer of detonators (the devices used to set bombs off)
Suzuki used every bit of ingenuity gleaned from backyard mechanics with the latest information and lessons learned from previous failures
Not wishing to lose the Greeves business, Villiers developed the all-new Starmaker engine. It was radically different from previous Villiers engines, but the most notable differences was the two Amal Monobloc carburetors. It was, however, a failure.
Make that the short history of the Husqvarna Automatic and the men who raced them, built them and loved them
Bultaco’s stock rose when American upstart Jim Pomeroy shocked the motocross establishment by winning the 1973 Spanish 250 GP, but the high didn’t last long
A Matchless frame, Norton Atlas engine, Bob Blair idea & Mike Patrick talent turn this Frankenstein hybrid into a winning machine—albeit for a very short time
The four-stroke that Yamaha Japan wouldn’t build, but it got built anyway, then Yamaha USA wouldn’t import it, so it was sold as a kit bike
Make no mistake about it, there are still a few Hodaka parts left on this Super Combat
Well, you could have seen them if this bike never made it into serial production, but it didn’t and it won’t
Not really competition for the established European bikes, it’s greatest strengths were its reliability and low price
Bultaco riders called the Pursang MK II the “Boat Tail” for its similarity to a Chris Craft runabout
Yamaha was ready to take the works Monoshocks (originally labeled the Monocross by Yamaha) from the limited-production 1974 YZ models to mass-production machines in 1975.
In honor of the late Tom White’s 73th birthday, we present his favorite bike in his museum — the Hungarian-built White Tornado
The “A” was the last of the twin-shock YZ’s—the “B” was the monoshock
Taglioni’s sole Desmodromic valve dirt bike proves that if a duck barks, it’s a motocross bike
You should read this compelling story about the history of first works bikes—Monark, Lito & Husqvarna
The bike that was made for Saddleback Park even though it started in Germany
In 1968, Baby Boomers found a cheap entry into the sport and in the long run the DT1 made the dirt bikes accessible to the masses
Killed by Generalissimo Franco, Spain’s economy, worker strikes and the changing times
Steve McQueen was given six G31Ms by Kawasaki during the filming of Le Mans. McQueen painted one orange with gold stripes and at auction in 2007 it sold for $55,575
The door opened for Husqvarna in 1960 with the demise of Monark. This freed up Monark and Lito designer Nils Hedlund to develop a state-of-the-art 500cc motocross machine for Husqvarna
Production was rumored to be around 900 units, but just as with the 1975 twin-fork model, the MX250 was a failure and only lasted one model year
British Grand Prix stars Don and Derek Rickman manufactured eponymous motorcycles from 1960 to 1975—including Zundapp and Hodaka models
Total production at Lito was only 35 machines, built between 1961 and 1965. Sten Lundin won the 1961 World Championship on a Lito (of sorts)
Van Tech frame kits could use Yamaha 60, 80, 100, 125 and 175 engines; plus Suzuki, Bridgestone, Hodaka and Harley Baja 100 engines