Prior to the seventies there were no sport bikes, dirt bikes, or touring bikes. If you wanted a fast bike, an off road bike, or a long dista...

American culture seems to lend itself well to touring motorcycles. Long open roads that are plenty wide and cheap gas make the perfect habit...

Golden Flash 1950-61 In 1950 BSA introduced the Golden Flash. The Golden Flash was an evolution of BSA's first parellel twin the A7 (500...

The Kawasaki Concours, or GTZ in Europe (ZG1000 and 1400). In 1986 Kawasaki built a sport touring bike around the then-new Ninja 1000. The b...

Few motorcycles have this many names. The Honda RC51, VTR1000 SP1, or RVT1000R just don't call it slow. Th RC51 was a unique departure f...

Perhaps the most premium performance motorcycle company ever to come out of America, was Crocker. I like to think of Crocker as the American...

Before Edward Turner made his name with the quintessentially British "parallel twin", he dreamt up the square four. He pitched his...

Like most Italian motorcycle comapanies Laverda became popular in the 1950's and 60's with small capacity bikes. The company racked ...

In 2000 Marine Turbine Technologies Inc. introduced the Turbine Superbike, better known as the Y2K Turbine bike. The bike uses a Rolls Royce...

Felix Wankel built the first working rotary internal combustion engine in 1957. The engine first appeared in the German NSU spider in 1964. ...

Two stroke road bikes have been extinct for quite some time now. These noisy beasts just couldn't fit in a quiet, clean, P.C. world we l...