Tag Archives: motorcycle history

more swap meet ****! found this yesterday on flakebook. i did not make a note of who posted it, but thanks, man. it’s a malaguti gam16 50cc motor mated to a chopped-to-**** motobecane frame. i’m seriously enjoying the “highway bars.” ...

montesa motorcycles began in 1944 when a young barcelona industrialist named pedro permanyer began to produce his own gas generators for automobiles. with the gas generator industry being a staple of individual spanish power supply from the spanish civil war ...

this overhead valve v-twin bsa made 4.98 horsepower. giddy up, you limey tea garglers. the model j was was 18% more expensive than other 500cc single cylinder overhead valve motorcycles such as the w34-8, while being not as powerful (.01 ...

the vincati if you haven’t read a book in a while, and you’re here checking out metric chops, bobs, cafes, and vintage bikes, you really ought to check out “big sid’s vincati.” we’re coming up on the two year anniversary of ...

anzani was an engine manufacturer founded by alessandro anzani (1877-1956) in 1907 in france. throughout its 73-year history, the company produced engines for aircraft, automobiles, boats, and motorcycles in factories in britain, italy, and france. alessandro’s early designs included a ...

first, i’d like to thank cyril huze for posting a little thing about these bikes that got my gears going this morning. imme motorcycles were manufactured in germany between 1948 and 1956 by norbert riedel. during world war two he ...

nimbus motorcycles was a partnership between peder a. fisker and h.m. nielsen from copenhagen, denmark. the bike was a 750cc inline-four. the company was formed in 1905 to manufacture electric motors and in 1910 their “nilfisk” electric vacuum cleaner was ...

On Bromsgrove Street in Birmingham, England, James Lansdowne started his own business in 1898. The Norton Manufacturing Company specialized in making chains and other parts for the bicycle industry. In 1902 a man named Charles Garrard began to import French ...

Founded in 1919 in the city of Strakonice, located in the newly-formed Czechoslovakia, CZ started as a weapons manufacturer “Ceska Zbrojovka” which literally means “Czechoslovakian Weapon Factory.” 1932 cz kaktus CZ built their first motorcycle in 1932 and called it ...

Yoinked this photo off The Vintagent. This bike is a 493cc OHV four stroke single. The company which eventually became Sunbeam is listed as being established in 1790, although it’s possible the origins began 50 years before this date. The ...