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S&S Cycle is an American motorcycle engine and parts engineer and manufacturer. The company was founded in 1958 by George J. Smith and Stanley Stankos in Blue Island, Illinois. [1]
The Galaxy became the benchmark in the English touring bicycle market. [3] A Giro 400 model racing bike by Dawes. It uses a Shimano chainset and carbon fibre front forks on a butted aluminium frame. By the mid-1970s, the company was still family owned and producing 1000 bicycles a week.
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.
According to Frank J. Berto, [2] [3] Raleigh Industries of America had been looking at a Japanese source for their Grand Prix model. Raleigh America ordered 2,000 bicycles from Tano and Company of Osaka but their parent company in England, TI-Raleigh, disapproved — concerned that the Tano-built bikes were too well made and would have outsold their own British bikes.
A touring bicycle with flat bars and 660 mm (26 in) wheels. A touring bicycle is a bicycle designed or modified to handle bicycle touring.To make the bikes sufficiently robust, comfortable and capable of carrying heavy loads, special features may include a long wheelbase (for ride comfort and to avoid pedal-to-luggage conflicts), frame materials that favor flexibility over rigidity (for ride ...
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Walneck's Classic Cycle Trader was a motorcycle magazine begun in 1978 by motorcycle enthusiasts and swap meet organizers [2] Buzz and Pixie Walneck. [1] The first issues were flyers that listed motorcycle parts for sale; demand for parts and complete motorcycles subsequently resulted in the publication growing into a large, full color magazine that contained over 120 pages during its peak.