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The Crocker Motorcycle Company is an American manufacturer, based in Los Angeles, California, founded by Albert Crocker.Located at 1346 Venice Blvd, Crocker produced a series of kits and whole motorcycles between 1931 and 1941: an overhead-valve conversion kit for the Indian 101 Scout motor (1932), a single-cylinder speedway racer (1934), powerful V-twin road motorcycles (1936–40), and the ...
Cycle speedway bikes are simple and robust. Steel and aluminium still rule in cycle-speedway. No suspension, upright handlebars, a low, single gear with a freewheel and 26 inch wheels (ETRTO:590) with heavily treaded tyres. They are purpose-built for getting through a cycle speedway race as fast as possible and doing so in one piece.
The speed on straight sections of the track reaches 110 km/h (70 mph) or more on longer tracks, but the limited speed on curves lowers the average. At the start of a race it takes between one and two seconds for the motorcycle to reach the "curve speed" (somewhat lower than the average), which is roughly estimated to be the equivalent of 2.5 to ...
In their earliest advertising copy Devin Enterprises listed a mailing address of P.O. Box 357, Fontana, California.Later on they used a street address of 44500 Sierra Highway, Lancaster, California and later still 10156 Rush, South El Monte, California before moving operations to their most well-known location at 9800 E. Rush Street, El Monte, California.
By 1985, before the Rickman brothers retired, Rickman Engineering Limited diversified into general engineering and into the production of a kit car for amateur constructors to create four wheeled vehicles, namely the Rickman Ranger, with GFRP body version similar to Suzuki Jeep, [10] and the Metisse sports coupe, based on donor-vehicle mechanicals, individually builder-sourced.
The SEAT Ibiza Kit Car was the most successful car in the series, taking 3 titles in a row, from 1996 to 1998. Peugeot 306 Maxi. The series started in 1993, then named the FIA Cup for Manufacturers of Touring Cars (2-Litre) with the series following Group A rules for front wheel drive vehicles, a maximum engine capacity of 2 litres and a single driven axle.
The same was true in Spain, where Jesús Puras won the national championship three times in 1998–2000 driving the Xsara Kit Car. In 2001 the Xsara Kit Car triumphed again on the rally routes of France, Sébastien Loeb at the wheel won the French championship, winning 6 out of 10 rallies.
The naming convention was the number of cylinders, the number of seats, and the number of wheels. The common model designations are 223 (2 cylinders, 2 seats, 3 wheels) or 224 (2 cylinders, 2 seats, 4 wheels). A few examples used the engine from the Citroën GS or GSA, designated 424 (4 cylinders, 2 seats, 4 wheels).