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The following is a list of motorcycle manufacturers worldwide, sorted by extant/extinct status and by country. These are producers whose motorcycles are available to the public, including both street legal as well as racetrack-only or off-road-only motorcycles.
1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s: Decades: 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s: Subcategories. This category has the following 10 subcategories, out of 10 total. 0–9.
The 1970 Trans-AMA motocross series was an international series established by the American Motorcyclist Association as a pilot event to help establish motocross in the United States. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The motocross series was an invitational based on a combined 250 and 500cc engine displacement formula, run on American tracks featuring the top ...
The BSA Thunderbolt was designed as a touring motorcycle. A traditional air cooled 650 cc twin cylinder with a single large bore Amal Monobloc carburettor, it did not suffer from the same level of vibration as earlier BSA twins and could comfortably cruise at 70 mph (110 km/h). and reached over 100 mph (160 km/h). in road tests.
In the late 1970s, a combination of events led to the demise of Hodaka. Falling US dollar exchange rates against the Japanese yen, a shift in demand from dirt bikes to larger road bikes, and general economic weakness fatally wounded the company. Shell attempted to purchase the Hodaka company at one point but the offer was rebuffed by Hodaka in ...
Hercules (1950s—1970s), Absorbed into Sachs in 1963. Models included the E1 electric scooter in the 1970s [63] — West Germany [64] Hoffman (Vespa) (1950—1955), licence built Vespas — West Germany [65] Hirano Pop (1952—1961), Hirano Manufacturing Co., Ltd., several 50cc and 80cc 2-stroke models including the Poppet — Japan [66 ...
The B44VS Victor Special was also successfully exported to the US between 1968 and 1970. [4] In 1968 the B44 became BSA's top export model. [citation needed] The good availability of spare parts and the relative simplicity of the single-cylinder engine meant that the surviving examples are easily restored to as-new condition. [5]
The BSA unit twins were a range of unit construction twin-cylinder motorcycles made by the Birmingham Small Arms Company (BSA) and aimed at the US market. A range of 500 cc (31 cu in), 650 cc (40 cu in) and 750 cc (46 cu in) twins were produced between 1962 and 1972, [1] but they were really developments of the older pre-unit A7/A10 model range with less weight. [2]