BIKES YOU’VE NEVER SEEN BEFORE: THE 2000 ALOOP XMX 250 FREESTYLE
A special kit designed in 2000 to transform a CR250 motocross bike into a freestyle bike. First step, buy a hacksaw
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BIKES YOU’VE NEVER SEEN BEFORE: HERCULES WANKEL 502 ROTARY
Not a huff-and-puff engine, but a spin-and-whistle engine
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CLASSIC MOTOCROSS IRON: 1962 PARILLA 250 WILDCAT SCRAMBLER
Racing the Parilla 250 Wildcat Scramblers against the smaller Triumph Cubs was like stealing candy from a baby
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A group of four started the BPS brand, but a disagreement sent two of them off to build a competing motorcycle marque
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CLASSIC MOTOCROSS IRON: 1967 GREEVES CHALLENGER
Total Greeves production in 1954 was 14 motorcycles, but Bert upped that to 17 in '55 — Greeves didn't stay small for long
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BIKES YOU’VE NEVER SEEN BEFORE: 1955 ARIEL 500 HS MOTOCROSS
A name from Shakespeare, the Red Hunter engine, an embarrassing end & its name on the Ariel Atom sports car
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CLASSIC MOTOCROSS IRON: 1971 YAMAHA RT1-MX 360 (GYT KIT INCLUDED)
Do you remember the original Yamaha dirt bike family? AT1, LT1, DT1 and RT1, plus the GYT kit
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FLASHBACK FRIDAY! THE MID-SIZE KTM 380SX TWO-STROKE
Was the KTM 380SX faster than the KX500 and CR500 of their times? Yes and no. Why didn't the unique KTM 380SX mid-size two-stroke catch on? It should have
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CLASSIC MOTOCROSS IRON: 1965 RICKMAN BULTACO 250 PETITE METISSE
The America-bound Petite Metisses were unique in that they were painted British Racing Green instead of the British versions OEM yellow
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You should read this compelling story about the history of first works bikes—Monark, Lito & Husqvarna
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CLASSIC MOTOCROSS IRON: 1969 CZ 360 TYPE 969/01 SIDE PIPE
Joel Robert, Paul Friedrichs, Guennady Moisseev, Jaroslav Falta, Sylvain Geboers, Roger DeCoster, Zdenek Velky, Vlastimil Valek, Jiri Stodulka, Tony DiStefano and Brad Lackey all raced CZs
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CLASSIC IRON: 1963 YAMAHA 250 ASCOT SCRAMBLER
Production of these very unique machines lasted from 1962 to 1967. The retail price in 1963 was $745. The 1965-and-later models had a fiberglass racing seat, which is the only way to tell the difference between them
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CLASSIC MOTOCROSS IRON: 1954 TRIUMPH T15 TERRIER 150
The Terrier was the first Triumph with a unit construction engine, the first with rear suspension & the precursor to the Triumph Cub and Tiger Cub
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BIKES YOU’VE NEVER SEEN BEFORE: 1972 YANKEE 460MX SINGLE
There is a good reason why you've never seen a Yankee 460MX before—there were only two of them built by the Yankee Motor Company in Schenectady, New York
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CLASSIC MOTOCROSS IRON: 1971 DKW 125 LEADING LINK
The Dampf-Kraft Wagen is a strange name for one of the first popular, purpose-built 125 motocross bikes in America
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BIKES YOU’VE NEVER SEEN BEFORE: 2012 MINSK RX450 BETA
From Russia with love, via Belarus and something called the Soviet American Trade Association with aid from Beta motorcycles
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CLASSIC MOTOCROSS IRON: 1974 BSA B50MX
In times of peace, arms manufacturing takes a sharp downturn and Birmingham Small Arms (BSA) turned to motorcycles in 1910. 64 years later they built this 1974 BSA B50
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FORGOTTEN MOTOCROSS TECH: MONTESA CONSTANT CHAIN TENSION (CCT) JACKSHAFT
Two-thirds of it is a basic Rickman Montesa, but the back half uses two chains and four rear sprockets
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TWO-STROKE TUESDAY: HORST LEITNER’S RADICAL AMP RESEARCH KTM 125SX PROTOTYPE
This is the strange story on how KTM's "125 of the Future" disappeared and where the one-off prototype was found 34 years later
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MECUM AUCTION WISH LIST: WISH YOU OWNED ONE, WISH YOU COULD GET RID OF ONE
At the 2024 Mecum Motorcycle Auction you coul bid on super expensive exotic classics or get a bargain on a dirt bike you dreamed of for less than it would cost to restore one
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BIKES YOU NEVER SEEN BEFORE: 1966 WHITE TORNADO 250
Or perhaps you remember this Hungarian-built motocross bike as the Danuvia, Tunde, Csepel, Panni or Pannonia
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If the people in power don't understand the technical aspects, they find it in their best interest of ban it — and that is how they killed Lars Larsson's titanium-framed Husqvarna 51 years ago
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CLASSIC MOTOCROSS IRON: 1967 NORTON 750 P11 SCRAMBLER
A Matchless frame, Norton Atlas engine, Bob Blair idea & Mike Patrick talent turn this Frankenstein hybrid into a winning machine—albeit for a very short time
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BIKES YOU’VE NEVER SEEN BEFORE: 1970 GARELLI TIGER CROSS MK 1
If you were 16 years old in Rome in the early 1970s, you would have dreamed of owning a Tiger Cross
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CLASSIC MOTOCROSS IRON: 1991 KAWASAKI WORKS KX125
Kawasaki was looking for a rider who could win the 125 crown, and Mike Kiedrowski was looking for revenge for being dropped by the Honda factory team at the end of the 1990 season
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BIKES YOU’VE NEVER SEEN BEFORE: 1974 TYRAN 125 MX/TYRAN 400 MX
The Tyran 125 MX was designed by Ted Wassell, who designed a series of bikes from his W.E Wassell Limited company in Lichfield, near Birmingham, England.
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CLASSIC MOTOCROSS IRON: 1971 AMERICAN EAGLE 405 TALON
Brits could buy it as the Sprite 405 Talon, Americans as the American Eagle 405 Talon, Australians as the Alron 405 and Belgians as the BVM 405, but they were all the same
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BIKES YOU’VE NEVER SEEN BEFORE: 1966 LITO X-CAM ALUMINUM 500 CROSS
The last, and one of only two, Litos equipped with a glued-and-screwed aluminum frame and the unique no-cam engine
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MXA RETRO TEST: IS THE 2001 VOR 503MX THE GREATEST FOUR-STROKE EVER?
It started life as the brain child of the Vertemati brothers, but the Vertemati/VOR breakup was probably a good thing for buyers—because the 503MX did improve under VOR
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CLASSIC MOTOCROSS IRON: 1976 YAMAHA TT500 FOUR-STROKE
Since Japan had a “tiered” driver’s license program that limited younger riders to 400cc, Yamaha chose 400cc for the Japanese domestic model and 500cc for the American market
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