With a BSA you're faster far from home

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Rage Against the Machine

.by Eric JohnsonMotorcycle racing is full of myth, folklore and larger than life legends. However, in the eyes of plenty, one of the greatest stories ever told took place in the summer of 1975 on a mile-long dirt oval in Indianapolis, Indiana.image by mike stuhlerThat year, Kenny Roberts was doing his best to beat back a number of beastly Harley-Davidsons that were trying to steal away his Grand National number one plate. Far more powerful, the Harley XRs were omnipotent and all seemed lost. Or was it? Before the race scheduled for the Indy Fairgrounds, Roberts and his mechanic took a huge gamble and shoehorned an engine far too powerful and potent for the bike into the spindly frame of his Champion Yamaha 750. When his mechanic asked him how...

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Sheldon's EMU

.Cybermotorcycle.com is a collection of articles, letters and emails about European Motorcycles - the result of research and correspondence dating back to 1994. The site now encompasses pages on some 500 different marques and numerous galleries containing thousands of images of contemporary, vintage, veteran and classic motorcycles and scooters, sidecars and minicars.There are several active forums on specific British, Italian and German motorcycles with a host of resources for restorers and historians.Please take time to visit this Great website here : Sheldon's ...

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"The King" Kenny Roberts To Ride Again

.Via the AMA PRO FLAT TRACKAMA Pro Racing and Yamaha Motor Corporation to Pay Tribute to Motorcycle Hall of Famer and Legend Kenny Roberts at the Lucas Oil Indy Mile.Time Set For "King Kenny" Roberts to Ride Again During the LegendaryLucas Oil Indy Mile This Weekend.AMA Pro Racing and Yamaha Motor Corporation will pay tribute and honor Kenny Roberts in recognition of the historic last lap win at the 1975 Indy mile on the Yamaha TZ750 that ultimately proved to be one of the most famous wins in American Dirt Track history.Known as the King, Kenny Roberts a 2-time AMA Grand National Champion and 3-time World 500cc Champion, will take several hot laps, between the final Pro and Expert Main races, on the infamous Yamaha TZ-750 powered dirt tracker...

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Brand X

The whole day went incredibly well.It was amazing. The best cafe racer went to Osamu Koyama and his Yamaha SR500 loaded with one-off and Japan-only parts. He's a jewelry designer and member of the Kaminari, a NY bosozoku-style biker gang of ex-pat Japanese artists and musicians. You can see Osa's work here : http://completetechnique.com/The event had over 3000 artists, bikers, hipsters, designers Real Estate Magnates, Investment Bankers, etc.Taka's performance was an amazing old-style "happening" with Free Jazz, Japanese Noise Rock, splatter-painting, power tools and a chorus of vintage 2-stroke and 4-stroke racers facing off across the layed-out canvas that covered the street.Here is a few pics Grant took during the event. Osamu on his white...

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Maruti-Suzuki New Zen Estilo Pictures | All New Estilo Photos | Latest Maruti Zen Estilo Pics, Iamages, Price

Maruti-Suzuki New Zen Estilo Pictures | All New Estilo Photos | Latest Maruti Zen Estilo Pics, Iamages, PriceMaruti-Suzuki India has launched facelifted model of Zen Estilo on Tuesday, 25th August, 2009. All new Estilo comes with new KB10 series engine which also serves in A-Star with BS-IV norms.The main advantage of new Estilo is it's milage of 18.2 kilometers to the litre. Maruti-Suzuki offers new Estilo with an introductory price of Rs 3.12 lakh (ex-showroom, Delhi).Maruti-Suzuki All New Zen Estilo Exteriors:Maruti-Suzuki All New Zen Estilo Interio...

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Aero Leather

.All front quarter chrome tanned horsehide jackets carry the following lifetime guarantee, the leather and stitching on your front quarter chrome tanned horsehide jacket is guaranteed for life by Aero.All other Aero Leather jackets have a lifetime guarantee on stitching and should at any time repair work be required on a lining, zip, stitching or any part of your jacket, it should be returned to the factory to have this work correctly carried out by one of the tailors originally responsible for manufacture of the jacket.Aeroleather Clothing Ltd, based in Scotland, have been sole distributors for the world famous Aero leather jackets since 1983, although the basis of the company dates back to 1975, founded as a trading company specialising in...

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1973 Honda RC250 Works Bike

.By the 1970s, two-strokes reigned as the kings of motocross racing. And Honda wanted the crown.Trouble was, the company, which had built its U.S. reputation on four-stroke streetbikes, didn’t have anything to compete against the light and powerful oil-burners of its competitors.So Honda built a two-stroke, breaking with 14 years of U.S. four-stroke tradition to produce the now-legendary Elsinore motocross bike. And aimed right at the heart of the AMA National Motocross Championship was the trickest one of them all, this works RC250 racer, now on display in the Motorcycle Hall of Fame Museum at AMA headquarters in Pickerington, Ohio.Besides the state-of-the-art, 249cc two-stroke motor that delivered the explosive power that motocross demanded,...

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Carlsbad Motorcycle Grand Prix 1970

.In 1970 after the Elsinore Grand Prix our local AMA District 38 dirt bike club, the Brush Barons, decided that it would be fun to host an Elsinore-like, multi-surface, dirt bike event at Carlsbad via vintage...

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Jeff Leighton’s Unit Custom

.Via Four Aces CycleJeff Leighton’s Unit Custom. Jeff came to the shop wanting a unit construction hardtailed bike and left with a great bike and a part-time job. Jeff did what is probably the best thing you can do when talking to your bike builder. He told me, “I like clubman handle bars and low pipes.” I was to do the rest of the thinking and the building. I remembered doing the “Slimbo” bike several years back at the height of the wide-tired chopper era. I did Slimbo as a protest against all that is fat. I took the general idea of that bike and made something almost as slim, but with some more personality. Jeff is heavily tattooed and he has several choice spiderwebs so we went with a spiderweb theme on this tank, fender and oil bag. Rick...

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1971 Titanium Husqvarna

.Via the AMA motorcycle hall of fameWhen Swedish MX star Lars Larsson lined up on this bike for the 1971 Indian Dunes motocross race in Southern California, his competition thought he was on a regular Husqvarna.But Larsson knew better. He was aboard one of the rarest machines in the history of American motocross: a 400cc Husqvarna with a frame made of titanium. And he used it to win both motos and dominate the Inter-AMA series support class that year.“Of course, my fellow racers came around wondering what kind of Husky I had,” recalls Larsson, who was instrumental in establishing Husqvarna in the U.S. and later went on to start Torsten Hallman Original Racewear, now known as Thor.He told them: Hallman Racing had commissioned Pro-Fab to make...

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1956 Corvette SR-2

.via the tamsoldracecarsiteCorvette expert Jim Gessner contributed these photos & info on this experimental Corvette, the precursor to the legendary "Corvette SS". "In March 1956 Fred Warner, General Motors PR man for Chevrolet and racer himself, delivers the Corvette SR-2 to Road America. Harley Earl gave the car to his son Jerry to race. Jerry had been racing Ferraris until he received this car and GM frowned on that activity." The car in the dusty pit area at Road America. "The SR-2 acronym stood for "Sebring Racer" or alternatively "Sports Racing." Starting with a Sebring Corvette chassis, the SR-2 sprouted a rear fin, two small racing windscreens, air scoops on the side coves and an extended front end with driving lights that gave...

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Bultaco Sherpa T

.Perhaps the most famous Bultaco model is the Sherpa T, a trials bike, which revolutionised the sport in the 1960s. At that time trials was almost exclusively a British sport using big heavy four-stroke machines. Irish trials ace Sammy Miller worked with señor Bultó to produce a lightweight two-stroke machine which, overnight, rendered the heavy four-strokes obsolete. This coincided with and, perhaps, stimulated the growth in the popularity of trials in Europe and later the USA, which provided a lucrative market for Bultaco in the years to come.Bultaco's premier model in the USA, the Pursang, was an excellent handling and powerful 250 cc competition model that could readily compete in virtually any type of speed-based off-road competition....

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Ducati 750 Imola Vs Reggiane Re.2005

.The Ducati 750 Imola Desmois a race motorcycle built by Ducati that won the 1972 Imola 200 mile race at the hands of Paul Smart. This win is considered historic by Ducati and its fans in that it helped define Ducati's approach to racing.On March 20th, 1970, Fabio Taglioni (September 10, 1920 – July 18, 2001) made the first sketches for the layout of a new Ducati V twin. By April his drawings were completed, and by July, there was a running motor. By August 1970, there was a complete prototype motorcycle. Taglioni engaged Leopoldo Tartarini, the founder of Italjet, to refine the styling aspects of the new Ducati. (When these two worked together, a memorable Ducati usually emerged.)In October 1970, the decision was made by Ducati to re enter...

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