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 Read More...
Kawasaki was looking for a rider who could win the 125 crown, and Mike Kiedrowski was looking for revenge for being dropped by the Honda factory team at the end of the 1990 season Read More...
Brits could buy it as the Sprite 405 Talon, Americans as the American Eagle 405 Talon, Australians as the Alron 405 and Belgians as the BVM 405, but they were all the same Read More...
Since Japan had a “tiered” driver’s license program that limited younger riders to 400cc, Yamaha chose 400cc for the Japanese domestic model and 500cc for the American market Read More...
Dave went so far as to have a special run of Webco heads sand-cast at a foundry for his one-off Hodaka Super Rat—we miss Dave's attention to detail Read More...
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) Read More...
The Silverpilen was the Swedish version of the Hodaka Ace 100—both were the bikes that spawned a generation of Grand Prix and AMA National stars Read More...
Frantisek Janecek bought the Wanderer brand from Winklhofer & Jaenicke and combined the first two letters from Jaenicke and Wanderer to name his motorcycle company Jawa Read More...
In memory of former 2001 and 2010 World Vet Champion and Edison Dye Lifetime Achievement winner Feets Minert, we present BSA's 1962 "Catalina Scrambler," which had the mods that Feets used at the island race Read More...
Suzuki used every bit of ingenuity gleaned from backyard mechanics with the latest information and lessons learned from their previous failures Read More...
Ariel 500 HS Cross was both a last gasp for Ariel's 500cc four-stroke engine, but also the end of the dominant era of the Big British Single in motocross Read More...
Brad Lackey was angry at Kawasaki’s less-than-enthusiastic support, so he put a Husky tank on his Kawasaki, repaint it black and wrote “Kaw” on it—it became the famous Black Kaw Read More...
The Falta buyer got the classic aluminum coffin-style gas tank, center-port exhaust engine, magnesium hubs, air shock and a single-downtube red frame Read More...
In the 1970s, AJS, Matchless, Norton, Villiers, BSA and Triumph were combined into the Norton-Villiers Group — AJS was saddled with aging Villiers Starmaker engine Read More...