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Showing posts with label MotoHistory - Decade by Decade. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MotoHistory - Decade by Decade. Show all posts
Sunday, January 16, 2011

Trivia: Motorcycling's tenth decade - 1990-’99 - Renaissance

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Massimo Tamburini created his masterpiece, the iconic Ducati 916, just as the Cagiva Group ran out of money in the early '90s. While s...
Saturday, January 15, 2011

Trivia: Motorcycling's ninth decade - 1980-'89 - The GSX-R prompts Kevin Cameron to wonder, "Where do we go from here?"

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The modern superbike originated with the 100-horsepower Suzuki GSX-R750 in 1985 (arriving in the U.S. market a year later.) How stunning wa...
Friday, January 14, 2011

Trivia: Motorcycling's eighth decade - 1970-'79 - the Japanese invasion gets reinforcements

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Throughout this decade Yamaha, Suzuki, and Kawasaki all established themselves as serious rivals to Honda – to the chagrin of Harley-Davi...
Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Trivia: Motorcycling's seventh decade - 1960-'69 - Meeting the nicest people...

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In ’62, American Honda sold 40,000 motorcycles through its 750-dealer network. When management set a target of 200,000 units the following y...
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Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Trivia: Motorcycling's sixth decade - 1950-'59 - "What are you rebelling against?" "What have you got?"

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After the war, G.I.s came home with ready cash, an appreciation for the motorcycles they’d seen “over there” and – shall we say – a heigh...
Sunday, January 9, 2011

Trivia: Motorcycling's fifth decade - 1940-'49 - you're in the army now

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Allied Forces in North Africa reported that the shaft-drive Zundapps and BMWs used by the Wehrmacht (which were usually set up as sidecar ...
Saturday, January 8, 2011

Trivia: Motorcycling's fourth decade - 1930 to ‘39: Motorcycles cure depression, but not The Depression

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Excelsior (which made fine big V-twins) and Henderson (known for smooth inline fours) both went bust in ’31. Indian had been acquired by the...
Friday, January 7, 2011

Trivia: Motorcycling's third decade - 1920 to '29: The motorcycle goes upmarket

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The roar in “Roaring Twenties” was the sound of an overheated stock market, not motorcycles. However, it was a great decade for hundreds of ...
Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Trivia: Motorcycling's second decade - 1910 to 1919: Scott shows that a motorcycle can be more than a bicycle with an auxiliary motor

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Alfred Angus Scott was the holder of more than sixty patents. His eponymous motorcycles were among the first to feature kick-starters, cha...
Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Trivia: Motorcycling's first decade - 1900 to 1909

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It’s convenient for motorcycle historians that the history (so far) of the motorcycle coincides almost exactly with that of the Twentieth Ce...
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