Articles tagged with: Offroad Bikes
This great video series takes a look at BMW’s rich Motorsport history.
Part 1 looks at the Brabham BMW’s and the evolution of the turbo 4 cylinder stock block engine.
Motorcycling Australia’s (MA) 2011 Honda Broadford Bike Bonanza (HBBB) was a huge success with 3000 motorcycle enthusiasts attending the 2011 event over the Easter weekend at the State Motorcycle Complex at Broadford.
Nearly 750 …
Here are some great photos from Derek Hanbidge’s trip to the Sammy Miller Motorcycle Museum. Sammy has a massive private collection of totally functional motorcycles all housed in a multi room Museum which …
Back-to-back AMA Grand National Champion, Daytona 200 winner, US road-racing champion, battered in crashes and duded out of a ‘world’ title. Gary Nixon, from Anadarko, Oklahoma, has seen it all – the epitome of the …
Jeff Ward
After winning the 1985 and 1987 250cc Supercross Championship (and 20 Supercross main events) in a career which spanned well over a decade, Jeff Ward chose to go car racing upon retiring from the …
I love this ad. I think its fabulous that the Barbour brand is doing authentic work and using its motorsport heritage so successfully. Its also impressive to see what guys can do on twin shock …
A new book has been written about the 1970 International Six Day Trial (ISDT) held in Spain. The world famous enduro is legendary and by all accounts the 1970 edition was no different. The book …
Wes from Hell for Leather Magazine sums it up best
“Ignacio Chivite has a dream. He wants to become the first Spaniard to complete The Dakar rally on a two-stroke Spanish bike and he’s not going …
Made famous by wins in ABC Wide World of Sport’s The Superbikers, Steve Wise, the only rider in AMA Pro racing history to win a supercross, motocross and roadracing National, just may be the best …
Dateline: Strahov Stadium. Prague, Czechoslovakia. May 9, 1956
As Americans, we’ve all been taught that the birth of supercross took place on a sandy, purpose-built track dropped between the 31-degree high banks of Daytona …
Historic Motorcycle Race to Take Place on Catalina Island for First Time Since 1958
This December, the stars will align for the rebirth of one of California’s most historic motorcycle races – the Red …
For the 1966 500cc World Championship, Birmingham Small Arms schemed up a silver bullet of a motorcycle created from space age materials such as titanium, aluminum alloy and magnesium. However, and despite the company’s best …
For the 1983 season, Team Yamaha hired a 16-year-old kid from El Cajon, California, named Ron Lechien to contest the AMA 125cc National MX Championship Series. Lechien had turned 16 in December of 1982, less …
Check out this tremendous clip from the 1948 film Once a Jolly Swagman. Given the era, the on-board footage is sensational and leaves you wanting more.
Here is the blurb about the film according to OVGuide.com
“Once …
Australia’s premier vintage and classic dirt bike event was held on the Queen’s Birthday Long Weekend, 11-14 June 2010 at Green Park, Conondale, Queensland.
The event is unique in that it is not a race, …
The fabulous Australasian Dirt Bike Magazine is celebrating 35 year in print. Founded by dirt bike addict Geoff Eldridge in 1975, the magazine has been a hugely influential in the off road motorcycling industry in …
If you are a Motocross fan then you would be very familiar with the iconic Italian brand SIDI, which is celebrating its 50th Anniversary in 2010.
In 1960 SIDI commenced production as a single craftsman in …
Check out these immensely impressive vintage motorcycle hill climb images from the 30s via Jeff Decker.
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to have a modern dirt bike, but with the look of a classic machine from the 70s or 80s?
Well Oberdan Bezzi has been thinking about it, …
The motorcycling bug bit Sammy Miller whilst watching motorcycle racing in Ulster. He went on to compete and win his first event in 1953. The rest as they say, is history.
Millers career was an …


















