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David Thorpe (born c. 1962) is a British former amateur and professional motocross racer and racing team manager. He won the AMCA 250 title in 1978 at the age of 16 ...
Thor was an American manufacturer of motorcycles and motorcycle parts especially engines, founded in 1901 in Aurora, Illinois. [1] From 1901 to about 1907 it made engines under license for Indian Motocycles (note spelling) of Springfield, Massachusetts, which Thor was also allowed to sell on the open market.
British Motorcycle Racing Club Stocksport 600 49 Henry Surtees: 19 July 2009 Westfield Bend FIA Formula 2 Championship: 2009 Brands Hatch Formula Two round: Williams JPH1 – Audi 50 Karl-Heinz Kalbfell 17 August 2013 Druids British Motorcycle Racing Club: Lansdowne Classic Series Matchless: 51 Frances Fletcher 7 October 2017 Clearways
1982 Hesketh V1000 with Astralite wheels [2] [3] [4]. Hesketh Motorcycles is a British motorcycle manufacturer, initially based in Daventry and Easton Neston, Northamptonshire, England.
In 1913 Motorcycle Illustrated published an article on Harley-Davidson constructing their 8th building on the property. It was a 6-story structure with 40,320 sq ft (3,746 m 2 ) of floor space designated for the machine shop and the building was 90 ft × 64 ft (27 m × 20 m). [ 5 ]
The first cars were lightweight two-seat models powered by motorcycle engines and with glassfibre bodies. The 1954 Atom was powered by a rear-mounted, two-stroke, air-cooled motor cycle engine driving the rear wheels through a three-speed Albion motor cycle gearbox and chain to the back axle.
Thorpe is a three times champion of New Zealand, winning the New Zealand Championship in 1993, 1994 and 1996. [3] He rode in the top tier of British Speedway from 1989 until 1996. [4] After winning the under-21 New Zealand national title he joined the Newcastle Diamonds in 1989, [5] where he stayed for six years. [6]
List of motorcycles by type of engine is a list of motorcycles by the type of motorcycle engine used by the vehicle, such as by the number of cylinders or configuration.. A transverse engine is an engine mounted in a vehicle so that the engine's crankshaft axis is perpendicular to the direction of travel.