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Greeves Motorcycles was a British motorcycle manufacturer founded by Bert Greeves which produced a range of road machines, and later competition mounts for observed trials, scrambles and road racing. The original company produced motorcycles from 1952, funded by a contract with the Ministry of Pensions for their Invacar , a three-wheeler for ...
On November 6, 2003, [15] a customer found four people shot dead inside Superbike Motorsports, a motorcycle shop in Chesnee. [4] The victims were identified as owner Scott Ponder, 30; service manager Brian Lucas, 29; mechanic Chris Sherbert, 26; and bookkeeper Beverly Guy, 52, who was Ponder's mother. All four died from multiple gunshot wounds.
Model: Production years: Name: Type: 20TA 1958-59 Scottish Trials 20TAS 1958-59 Scottish Special Trials 20R 1954-57 Standard Roadster 20SA 1958-59 Hawkstone
Encouraged by this success, Greeves decided to diversify into motorcycle manufacture and set up Greeves motor cycles in 1953. A keen trials rider in his spare time, he had started collecting veteran and vintage motorcycles, including a 1912 Triumph with the registration 'OLD 1'. [4] Preston-Cobb also encouraged him to start the motorcycle business.
Motorcycle builder and stuntman Concord, North Carolina: Butch Laswell: March 10, 1996: 37 American Motorcycle stunt rider: Honda CR500 Mesquite, Nevada: Joi Harris: August 14, 2017: 40 American Motorcycle road racer and stuntwoman Vancouver, British Columbia: Killed while filming a motorcycle stunt
Brian Stonebridge (6 June 1928 – October 1959) [1] was a leading English motorcycle racer of the 1950s competing in scrambles, now known as motocross.. Born in Cambridgeshire, England, Stonebridge began riding for the Matchless scrambles team in 1950, winning a gold medal in that year's International Six Days Trial. [2]
In the early 1960s, Bickers was one of the top motorcycle racers in the sport of scrambles, which eventually became more widely known by the European term 'motocross'. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] He began competing in motorcycle scrambles at the age of 15 just before the official age which he was eligible to ride, which was sixteen, and he was so successful ...
Eight Grand Prix motorcycle racing champions have died while racing or practicing in Grand Prix motorcycle racing: Dario Ambrosini in 1951, Leslie Graham in 1953, Rupert Hollaus in 1954, Tom Phillis in 1962, Bill Ivy in 1969, Jarno Saarinen in 1973, Daijiro Kato in 2003, and Marco Simoncelli in 2011. Hollaus is often credited as the only rider ...