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Dykes on Bikes leading the 2005 San Francisco Pride Parade Dykes on Bikes leading the Stockholm Pride parade 2010. Dykes on Bikes (DOB) is a chartered [1] lesbian motorcycle club with 22 chapters, [2] numerous affiliations, [3] and 501(c)(3) nonprofit status. [4]
Al Salam 313 is a political organization and criminal gang of conservative Shia Iraqis in Western Europe. The gang was founded by the style of a motorcycle club by Mohammed Bunia in Germany. Salam 313 has members in Central and North Europe and is based on the ideology of the Iraqi Shia militia Sarāyā al-Salām (former Mahdi Army). The group ...
In 1909, after a Wearwell motorcycle fitted with a Stevens side-valve single-cylinder engine won a trophy for a 24-hour non-stop run in 1909, Jack Stevens decided to contest the Tourist Trophy in the Isle of Man. A new company, A J Stevens & Co (AJS), was founded, with premises in Retreat Street, Wolverhampton, to manufacture motorcycles and ...
Sequana Joi Harris [1] (December 11, 1976 – August 14, 2017) [2] [3] was an American motorcycle road racer and stuntwoman. [4] She made history as the first African American woman to be licensed as a motorcycle road racer, racing professionally since 2014, after taking up motorcycling in 2009. [5]
Motorcycle manufacturers, including Kawasaki had invested heavily in 4 stroke technology in the preceding years, primarily focusing on higher displacement motorcycles. In 2004 the first production Kawasaki KX250F was released and as such, Team Pro Circuit changed their development focus from 2 stroke 125cc motorcycles, to 250cc four-stroke ...
In 2016, J.W. Childs Associates formed Comoto to merge the two companies. The company already owned Cycle Gear. Four years later in 2020, the company acquired the motorcycle GPS app REVER and J&P Cycles. [13] [14] [15] Rever was a Colorado-based technology company that connected powersports customers globally through the free Rever app and website.
Berliner Motor Corporation was the US distributor from the 1950s through the 1980s for several European motorcycle marques, including Ducati, J-Be, [5] Matchless, Moto Guzzi, Norton, Sachs and Zündapp, as well as selling Metzeler tires. Berliner Motor was highly influential as the voice of the huge American market to the motorcycle companies ...
After he retired from competition, Smith helped to develop off-road motorcycles as special projects manager based in Minnesota, US, for Can-Am, the motorcycle division of Canada's Bombardier organisation. [9] [3] The Can-Am racing team claimed the first three places in the 1974 AMA 250cc motocross national championship. [1]