1986 Honda RC250 Ricky Johnson

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Via the always excellent : www.mxworksbike.com

Before the production rule went into effect. The gap between Honda’s works bikes and Honda’s production bikes was far greater than any of the other manufacturers. Towards the mid-eighties, the cost for each works Honda was over $200,000.00 per bike. The cost of racing professional AMA motocross in the U.S. was getting out of control and Honda was on a runaway freight train. Although some of the works technology was passed down to the production bikes, most of the secrets on the Honda works bikes remained secrets.

In 1986 when the production rule went into effect, most observers thought the playing field would be even. In reality Honda became even more dominant and up and coming Ricky Johnson went from being a star to a superstar. At the start of the season, each rider received two bikes for the entire season, plus an endless supply of parts. The bike featured here, is the second 250 that Ricky used in 1986. The first bike was destroyed.

At the end of 1986 Honda decided to expand their success to Europe and teamed up with Honda factory rider Eric Geboers from Belgium. They were going to make their first attempt at the 250 World Championship... Read more 


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Rumbling into Beijing : Bandit 9

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Bandit9 was started by Daryl Villenueva, a rabid motorcycle fan from the Philippines. He first started riding on the humble 50cc Honda Cub while living in Saigon. It wasn't long before he modified it: he simply painted the multi-colored bike white, giving it a sleeker and cleaner appearance.

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La motocyclette

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I know you all know already this movie but i cannot resist to retalk about it ...The Girl on a Motorcycle (French: La motocyclette), also known as Naked Under Leather, is a 1968 British-French film starring Alain Delon, Marianne Faithfull, Roger Mutton, Marius Goring, and Catherine Jourdan. It was listed to compete at the 1968 Cannes Film Festival, but the festival was cancelled due to the events of May 1968 in France. The Girl on a Motorcycle redefined the leather jacket for motorcyclists into a full body suit that Marianne Faithfull wore in the film.

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Barry Sheene

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Barry Sheene, two time World champion in 1976 and 1977, began his sports career with the Bultaco TSS.

Barry Stephen Frank Sheene MBE (11 September 1950 – 10 March 2003) was a British World Champion Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. He became the British 125cc champion aged just 20, and finished second in the World Championships for that class a year later. Sheene won the newly formed Formula 750 European championship for Suzuki in 1973. A spectacular crash at the Daytona 200 in the 1975 season threatened to end his career, breaking his left thigh, right arm, collarbone and two ribs, yet he recovered and was racing again seven weeks afterwards.
In 1973, he won the Formula 750 World Championship. In the 1976 season, he won five 500cc Grands Prix, bringing him the World Championship. He repeated as champion in the 1977 season with six victories... Read more


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Vintage design Inspiration by Orphiro

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Orphiro : Sustainable fun, a cool design and comfortable driving. Orphiro combines all ideals when it comes to new motorcycling: fully electric, fast loading and one with nature. An enormous acceleration power, a lovely cruising speed and a range that covers all work-living distances easily. Above all: eye-catching!


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1960 BSA A10 Spitfire Scrambler

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Via Bonhams : After World War II, postwar U.S. prosperity created a huge market for British bikes and BSA had been a beneficiary. Competition sold bikes, and BSA's off-road and oval track successes with its 500cc single Gold Star kept the firm in the magazine headlines. One of the most publicized races in the country was the Catalina Grand Prix, run on an island course on Catalina off the coast of Southern California. A Gold Star won the 1952 event, leading to a Catalina Gold Star Scrambler being introduced in 1956. The timing was perfect because BSA won the 1956 event after the model had already been introduced.

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Malcolm Smith Vintage Boots

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Vintage Malcolm Smith Motorcycle Boots at : metropolisvintageonline.com

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Graeme Crosby

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Graeme Crosby (born in 1955) is a former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer from New Zealand. A supremely versatile rider, Crosby holds the distinction of having won the Daytona 200, the Imola 200, the Suzuka 8 Hours, and the Isle of Man TT.

Crosby began his racing career in 1974 in the New Zealand racing scene. In 1976, he made an impression in the Australian Superbike championship. He then left for Europe in 1980 to compete in Britain where he won the Isle of Man Senior TT. By 1980, he had worked his way up to the 500cc road racing world championship on a Suzuki RG 500. Also in 1980, he teamed up with Wes Cooley on a Yoshimura Suzuki to win the Suzuka 8 Hours endurance race, and he was the TT Formula One World Champion for Suzuki. After finishing fifth in the 1981 500cc championship - the year in which he was British TT F1 champion - he made a move to the Agostini Yamaha factory racing team. He began the 1982 season by winning the prestigious Daytona 200.

Despite injuries, Crosby still managed second overall in the championship. Frustrated by the internal politics of his race team Crosby quit the Grand Prix circuit after the 1982 season... Read more


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Venice Vintage Motorcycle Rally 2011

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Venice Vintage Motorcycle Rally 2011 : The whole event was great fun, interesting and it was just fantastic to see all those vintage and classic motorcycles being ridden and enjoyed. All the British bikes seemed to like the foggy morning ride to Malibu where hundreds of bikers took over PCH before returning to Venice where food, drinks, music and vendors were all gathered and the motorcycles from the rally were judged to find the best British, American, European, Japanese, Cafe, Custom, race inspired and ugliest bike at the show! ( via : www.ultimatemotorcycling.com )

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Oscar Gaetan’s AHRMA racing 1974 Can-Am

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Via : www.offroadmotorcycles.ca

When it was new, the Can-Am 250 was state of the art. The short stroke, rotary valve inducted, oil-injected two-stroke was produced by Rotax in Austria for Can-Am and cranked out a then astounding 35 horsepower at the rear wheel through its five-speed close-ratio tranny. Called the ‘MX1’ by Can Am, Gaetan’s racer is not a true MX1 but a hybrid of various early TNT, MX1, MX2, MX3, and GP models. With its Mikuni Carb, specially cut rotary valve, cylinder porting, custom ‘black widow’ replica high pipe and six-speed gearbox... Read more

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the Brits lead the way in the Dirt, too

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Via the Great : Classic British Motorcycles

1960 BSA A10 Spitfire Scrambler.

Triumph Flat Tracker

Immediately after World War II, as civilian production ramped up & the British economy got going again, the popularity of motorsports, racing of all kinds, was exploding. Auto races captured much of the limelight, but motorcycle racing was enjoying a boom in growth in all directions. While Road Racing had always been popular in Europe & England, it was fairly expensive for the 'Average Joe' & so many young men returning from the War turned to dirt bikes, in one form or another. They were fun, cheap, often nothing more than their commuter bike with the lights removed, and they could be ridden anywhere, out in the boonies. Off-road racing events of all kinds began springing up all over Europe & England and the British motorcycle industry was not long to catch on.


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Resurrecting a war relic

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Motorcycle mechanic Bob Clement of Roberts takes a 1941 BMW R75 sidecar rig for a test drive near his home. The bike, used by the German military, has one drive shaft from the transmission to the rear wheel and another connected to the sidecar’s wheel. The bike was the first World War II-era BMW that Clement had repaired during his long career working on vintage BMWs... Read more

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Piston + Pints

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Thursday, November 3rd · 5:00pm - 9:00pm

Location : imogene + willie

2601 12th Avenue South

Nashville, TN

Gearheads, unite! The inaugural Pistons & Pints meet is something you don’t want to miss. Bring your bike and get ready to share tales of grease, metal and the open road with motorcycle lovers just like you. It’s free and open to everyone.

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1977 Harley-Davidson XR750

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For sale in Greenville, IN, United States

The XR-750 is a Harley-Davidson racing motorcycle made since 1970, primarily for dirt track racing, but also for road racing in the XRTT variant. The XR-750 was designed in response to a 1969 change in AMA Grand National Championship rules that leveled the playing field for makes other than Harley-Davidson, allowing Japanese and British motorcycles to outperform the previously dominant Harley-Davidson KR race bike. The XR-750 went on to become the winningest race bike in the history ofAmerican Motorcyclist Association (AMA) racing.

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