Italian distillery Martini & Rossi, makers of the well-known Martini vermouth, began sponsoring motor racing teams way back in 1958, when Count Metello Rossi di Montelera founded the Martini International Club. During the 1970s, Martini […]
Tag: Harley
1915 Harley-Davidson Model 11F
State of the Art for 1915… During the 1910-1915, a young Harley-Davidson Motor Company was introducing innovations into their machines at a lightning rate. Their first V-twin appeared in 1909, one of the industry’s first […]
Harley-Davidson XR750 “Streetclone”
An XR750 “streetclone” built by a Special Forces combat veteran… Introduced in 1970, the Harley-Davidson XR750 would become the most successful racing motorcycle in history, winning 29 of 37 AMA Grand National Championships in its […]
Super Sportster: “TS-05” Harley XR1200
Ching Tsung Custom Bikes puts the “Sport” in Sportster… Inspired by the legendary XR750, the Harley-Davidson XR1200 was the most performance-oriented Sportster ever produced, a factory street tracker whose 1202cc high-compression V-twin put down 91 […]
Knuckle Power: Harley “VFL” Beach Racer
Hammer Sycle builds a Knucklehead-powered Harley VL racer… In 1936, Harley-Davidson introduced their first full production overhead valve V-twin engine: the “Knucklehead,” as we know it today — a reference to the distinctive shape of […]
La Poderosa: Harley-Davidson XR1200X Enduro
The Powerful One: Animal Motor Company x Amarillo Motorcycles In 2008, Harley-Davidson released the XR1200, the most performance-tuned Sportster the factory had ever produced. Inspired by the legendary XR750 — “the most successful race bike […]
Built for Good: Harley Sportster Forty-Eight by CROIG
CROIG.co brings together a dream team of builders for a great cause… (Written by Keith Baskett of Combustion Collective.) Across the world, motorcycles mean different things to different people. In some places, they are utilitarian; […]
Harley FXR Twin Cam Street Tracker by VIDA Motorcycle
Japanese master Takuya Okubo builds a Twin Cam FXR like no other… In 1971, Harley-Davidson unveiled the FX (Factory Experimental) Super Glide, one of the world’s first production customs that mated the smaller Sportster forks […]
NorHD: Norton-Harley Café Racer
Twenty-year-old Makai Wink and family build a Harley-Norton Featherbed barn special! The legendary Norton Featherbed frame has its origins in Northern Ireland during WWII, where brothers Cromie and Rex McCandless developed a rear subframe for […]
Flat Track Tribute: Harley-Davidson 1200 Street Tracker
A two-wheeled tribute to a father and son’s flat track memories… For many of us, the love of motorcycles gets handed down from father to child. That was certainly the case for California’s Bill Brosius […]
