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The Dampf-Kraft Wagen is a strange name for one of the first popular, purpose-built 125 motocross bikes in America
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Francisco Bulto's baby Bul was designed for the ISDT and the 175cc prototype was raced in the 1962 ISDT by Oriol Puig and Jose Sanchez
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The rotary-valve Maico MC125 was based on the MD125 road racer, but was the victim of bad timing and high pricing
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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)
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Make that the short history of the Husqvarna Automatic and the men who raced them, built them and loved them
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A product of the CZ/Jawa factory starting in 1957 the ESO got the ax by the commissars in 1964
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Although related to the Sears Allstate models that flooded America in the 1960s, the Puch 125GS was lightyears better
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The Italian 250 two-stroke with the American V-twin name and some odd stuff from Planet Xenon
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Well, you could have seen them if this bike never made it into serial production, but it didn't and it won't
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Make no mistake about it, there are still a few Hodaka parts left on this Super Combat, but not many
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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
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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
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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
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The 1972 CZ 400 was a close relative of the 1970 and 1971 models. The old CZ 360 was bored out to 380cc and called the 400
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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
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Suzuki used every bit of ingenuity gleaned from backyard mechanics with the latest information and lessons learned from their previous failures
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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
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Taglioni's sole Desmodromic valve dirt bike proves that if a duck barks, it's a motocross bike
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FB Mondial Motociclistica was founded by Count Giuseppe Boselli in 1948 in Arcore, Italy. The name Mondial is French for "world."
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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
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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
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CCM (Clews Competition Machines) was founded in 1971 out of the collapse of BSA's competition department
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With a touch of panache, lots of hard work, a bundle of money and there you have the top ten
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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
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At one time the Husqvarna 125CR was the most expensive 125 motocross bike a rider could buy
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