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A diesel motorcycle is a motorcycle with a diesel engine. Production vehicles ... and fuel consumption is advertised to be 96 mpg ‑US (2.5 L/100 km; 115 mpg ‑imp ...
Pages in category "Defunct motorcycle manufacturers of the United States" The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Roy C. Marks, formerly of Toledo, Ohio, created the first moto bicycle in the United States in 1896 in San Francisco. In 1901 the California Motor Company was created for the purpose of manufacturing the Marks design of motorcycle. Founder were Lewis Bill - President, J. W. Leavitt - Vice President, and J.F. Bill - Secretary and Treasurer.
From 1989 until 1995, ATK was the fifth largest off-road motorcycle manufacturer in North America. [6] An article by Motocross Action magazine in December 2019 states that ATK produced thousands of four-stroke motorcycles since 1985, predating Japanese manufacturers' move to four-stroke engines by over a decade.
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.
Ron Simms is an American custom motorcycle builder, operating his business, Simms Custom Cycles, in Hayward, California. Simms has been building custom motorcycles for over 47 years. He has been featured in Easyriders magazine, [1] and the photo essay book Art of the Chopper, [2] where his work was compared to Arlen Ness as epitomizing the East ...
The first California was designed in consultation with the Los Angeles Police Department Traffic Division to modify the Moto Guzzi Ambassador, the winner of the tender for the supply of vehicles for the L.A.P.D. [1] [2] The initial idea was to develop a motorcycle that could participate in a tender called for the Italian Police forces at the ...
The motorcycle division of Yamaha was spun off in 1955, being incorporated on 1 July 1955 in Japan, [7] and was headed by Genichi Kawakami. Yamaha's initial product was a 125 cc (7.6 cu in) two-stroke, single cylinder motorcycle, the YA-1, which was a copy of the German DKW RT 125.