Pandemonium Attachment: F84 Engineering’s “Triple Bike”… The earliest motorcycles weren’t much more than bicycles with internal combustion engines attached. In fact, William S. Harley’s initial idea in 1901 was to motorized a bicycle, and some […]
Tag: Two-Stroke
Two-Stroke Racer: Honda “MT250R” Race Bike
Big Dream: What if Honda had built a 250cc version of the MT125R racer? It’s well known that Soichiro Honda — Mr. Honda himself — was no fan of two-stroke engines. It’s said he found […]
49-Cylinder Two-Stroke Kawasaki
Guinness World Record Holder: “Tinker Toy” by Simon Whitelock… Recently we showcased the 7-cylinder Kawasaki two-stroke built by the UK’s Simon Whitelock, who’s been building custom motorcycles specials since 1985. He says the Kawasaki Triples […]
Ken Block Tribute: Simson S51 “Holy Bastard”
43-hp Simson Smoker from Tony Möckel… In 1856, brothers Löb and Moses Simson purchased one third of a steelhammer works in Suhl, Germany, and began producing guns and gun barrels under the trade name Simson […]
Road Ripper: Yamaha RD350 Street Tracker
The Yamaha RD350 remains one of the most storied two-stroke street bikes of the 1970s. It might not be as a notorious as the widow-making triples of Kawasaki lore, but it was in most respects […]
7-Cylinder Kawasaki “KH606” Two-Stroke!
Kawasaki “KH606” from Simon Whitelock… Unless you’ve been living under a rock of late, you know the name Allen Millyard — the tea-drinking retired British Ministry of Defence engineer who builds some of the […]
Never Give Up: Suzuki T500 Titan Race Replica
Suzuki T500 Jack Findlay Race Replica… Talk to any dedicated motorcycle racer and you’ll soon realize there’s a lot more to racing — and winning — than being fast on the track. From the […]
Mega 2 Stunner: Maico 490 Custom Motocross Bike
From Donzzilla: A Legendary Motocrosser, Reborn… The legendary 1981 Maico 490 is widely considered one of the greatest motocross bikes of all time. None other than the late, great Rick “Super Hunky” Sieman, original editor […]
Street-Legal Smoker: Yamaha MX360
Streetable Endurocrosser from Germany’s Loose Screw… In 1968, Yamaha hit a home run with the original DT-1 250 — an affordable, lightweight, street-legal two-stroke dirt bike that not only sold out in short order, […]
MaXimilian: Double-Engine Yamaha MX80 Salt Flat Racer
“Like straddling two chainsaws…” If you love motorcycles, a trip to the Bonneville Motorcycle Speed Trials (BMST) should be on your bucket list. Where else can you see men and women on garage-built machines […]
