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Category: UncategorizedHonda’s announcement that it was returning to 500cc grand prix racing in 1979, after an absence of 12 years, caused less of a sensation than the news that their GP contender was a four-stroke, at a time when two-strokes seemed to rule GP races. Moreover, it quickly became apparent that this engine was really an [...]
To start with, not much of Ram was changed, thought there are still plenty of reasons that make the new Dodge Ram stand out from its’ competitors. One of the most notable feature of all new Rams now is the rear coil-spring suspension with trailing arms to locate the live axle. This change saves about [...]
When the Triumph company decided in the mid-Thirties that its future was in the production of automobiles and threatened to close down the motorcycles side of the business, Ariel chief Jack Sangster stepped in and set up a deal under which two-wheeler production continued under the management of Edward Turner, designer of the Ariel Square [...]
Were the British motorcycle manufacturers too conservative or did the Japanese catch them napping? Whatever it was, the arrival of the Honda 750 in 1969 was followed by a flood of other multi-cylinder bikes that dealt a devastating blow to the British industry. In one last desperate effort, the leading British makers attempted to reestablish [...]
Like the mythological Phoenix, one of the great English marques has risen from the ashes. Triumph, which built its first two-wheelers in 1902, went down with the parent BSA group in 1972 and was taken over by a government-backed workers’ cooperative that, unfortunately, ran out of money at the start of the Eighties. But the [...]
The family of off-road bikes is a large one, where each branch is based on a very different philosophy. There are bikes suitable for use off- and on-road, trail bikes, trials bikes, enduros, scramblers, and motocross machines. Motocross has been called “mechanized steeple chasing.” It’s a more sophisticated form of the British sport of scrambling [...]
The Manx Norton combine a long career with a long record of success. Norton already had an impressive lists of victories to its name when in 1930, Arthur Carroll redesigned the firm’s over head-cam mode. Between 1931 and 1939, Nortons won race after race: in 1932, road going versions of the works TT racers were [...]
In 1920, Carlo Guzzi astounded the world by unveiling his first motorcycle, a horizontal single-cylinder 500cc with a single overhead camshaft and four-valve head with twin spark plugs. It was, however, still a prototype and when it came to series production the following year, costs demanded a simplified design. But the first production Moto Guzzi [...]
After the success of Honda it was not so easy in the late Sixties for a new Japanese marque to create an image for itself. Kawasaki, however, succeeded brilliantly in establishing a reputation as an exclusive specialist in sporting motorcycles. It has lung on to its reputation in racing, even though its range is considerably [...]
Since 1941, Harley Davidson Motor Corporation has provided racers with purpose-built race machines. The WR had a tank shift with a foot clutch and separate engine and transmission. The 1952 KR was of unit construction with a foot operated shift and hand clutch. Both of these models were side-valve flatheads. The mid-1970 XR was of [...]
