CMC / Marty Tripes

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Marty Tripes. His Goal is to get back the spirit and respect of the old days of MOTO CROSS that have left us, To have good tracks and venue for people to come together again at the race's. Take time to check his great website.

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Racing Retro

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I found these pictures on the amazing blog Racing Retro, sorry guys its a french one but take time to go thru this blog , its very cool.

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CZ Motorcycles

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Via my very good friend Trent Reker great site : www.bikermetric.com

Founded in 1919 in the city of Strakonice, located in the newly-formed Czechoslovakia, CZ started as a weapons manufacturer "Ceska Zbrojovka" which literally means "Czechoslovakian Weapon Factory." Read more


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1986 Honda RC250 Ricky Johnson

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Via the always excellent : www.mxworksbike.com

Before the production rule went into effect. The gap between Honda’s works bikes and Honda’s production bikes was far greater than any of the other manufacturers. Towards the mid-eighties, the cost for each works Honda was over $200,000.00 per bike. The cost of racing professional AMA motocross in the U.S. was getting out of control and Honda was on a runaway freight train. Although some of the works technology was passed down to the production bikes, most of the secrets on the Honda works bikes remained secrets.

In 1986 when the production rule went into effect, most observers thought the playing field would be even. In reality Honda became even more dominant and up and coming Ricky Johnson went from being a star to a superstar. At the start of the season, each rider received two bikes for the entire season, plus an endless supply of parts. The bike featured here, is the second 250 that Ricky used in 1986. The first bike was destroyed.

At the end of 1986 Honda decided to expand their success to Europe and teamed up with Honda factory rider Eric Geboers from Belgium. They were going to make their first attempt at the 250 World Championship... Read more 


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Mike Murphy's Rokon "Cobra"

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Via the amazing site : www.vmxtv.com

Mike had this bike in boxes for years and no time to restore. So this year he didn't ride the AHRMA Cross Country Series and took the time to build it. This " COBRA " model is 1 of only 70 made. Super porting and a 44mm Mikuni carb. He rode it down the lane and it just digs a trench. Sweet !!

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Maury's world

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Welcome to Maury's world of vintage motorcycle restoring and AHRMA racing

This site is a collection of pictures and comments from Maury's main obsession; vintage motorcycle collecting and racing. He collects lots of seemingly unrelated stuff but he is mainly interested in vintage flattrack racing bikes.

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Ducati 125 Grand Prix

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Once again i cannot resist to repost a fabulous Bike i found on the amazing Bike Exif site and once again i have to say thanks Chris for your deramin' work.

I’ve often thought that the appeal of racing motorcycles is in their sculptural qualities. And despite the charmless name, there are few things more elegant than a ‘dustbin’ fairing from the 1950s. This one is an exceptionally beautiful example, and a testament to the metalworker’s skill. It was created for a 1955 Ducati 125 Grand Prix prototype, a machine based on the 100cc Gran Sport designed by Fabio Taglioni. Nestling in the frame is a single-cylinder DOHC ‘Bialbero’ engine: in Grand Prix trim, it produced a 16hp at a heady 10,500rpm... Read more

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Daytona 1970

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Via the amazing site : Jack Middelburg motorrace

Jack Middelburg (Naaldwijk, April 30, 1952 – Groningen, April 3, 1984) was a former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. Together with Wil Hartog and Boet van Dulmen, he was part of a contingent of Dutch riders who competed at the highest levels of Grand Prix racing in the late 1970s

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Victorian vintage motocross

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copyright : Frank Iirilli Jnr

Copyright : Townsville vmx club

The website for Australian Vintage Motocross. Everyone who loves riding and restoring old dirtbikes welcome. OzVMX is an independent website not related to VMX Magazine.

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Arizona Mike's Vintage MotoCross Bikes

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Mike Grayson is currently reside in New River, Arizona (just 20 miles N. of downtown Phoenix). He has a warehouse here where he keeps most of his bikes. If you are ever in his area, please CALL HIM to view his inventory at that time @ 623-465-0636.

His Website : Arizona Mike's Vintage MotoCross Bikes

1962 Greeves Hawkstone Scrambler 250

1972 CZ 400 in '74 colors

1972 Husky WR450 nice original cond.

1974 Suzuki TM125L

1976 Husqvarna 360WR

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Vintage Flat Trackers

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For sale via : www.vft.org

1976 Bultaco Astro, Runs great. Will need some cosmetics to be a show bike.

1 Borrani 2.15 Spool $150
1 Astro tank and Seat primed and Ready to go $300
1 Champion Seat w/ thick pad $100
1 New champion seat pad thin $25

a nice 73-74 Honda Elsinore alloy fuel tank,has the usual dings and a shallow knee dent on the right side,includes the cap and petcock,will look great on your vintage Honda flat tracker...

1975 Honda XL350 with 412 kit, Kennedy spool front wheel, Sun rims, new Dunlops, Jemco exhaust, Redwing shocks, 36mm Mikuni,
Barnett clutch springs, and too many other new parts to list. This bike has not had gas in it since rebuild, so the new owner gets
to break it in.

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Marty Smith Photo by David Bradley

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Via : The Mot'Art Journal

Hello and greeting from Richmond, Virginia USA,

I don't much like to talk about myself, but will write way too much and you can edit to please. I am 51 years old now and have been an artist my entire life. Not knowing how an artist was to make a living, I attended college to study communication arts and have been graphic designer since.


My American Father married my German Mother and because of this and his work, we spent more than half of my early years living in Germany. Like many Europeans, a love of cars and motorbikes developed early. Working before and after school at a liquor store, I purchased my first motorbike the minute it was legal to ride at fourteen.

A continuous line of motorcycles has followed. Also during this time (the seventies) I befriended an older neighbor who wrenched for a Formula Ford race team. Soon I was traveling to racetracks all over Europe. Some were small airfields, but sometimes we were in the pits at big races including Formula One.


These were great and happy times! One year while at the Austrian Grand Prix, I did a lap around the track at three in the morning on my little 50cc Honda. Two security guards met me upon my return to our pit area with wagging fingers, but nothing else. I don't believe one could get away with that today!

Dad bought me a camera and I still enjoy photography. The attached photos were shot with that old Pentax SLR during the Grand Prix of Germany 125cc World Championship.


I was excited as an American named Marty Smith was to race. Marty had won the US Championship the two years prior. Despite a bad start and track conditions completely different than US motorcross, Marty finished a respectable third against Europe's best riders. I also shot some grainy Super8mm movies of this race.

All the best, David Bradley

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Moto-art at Halifax boutique

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By CMG Staff, via : http://cmgonline.com

You wouldn't normally expect to find art representing vintage motorcycle competitions in a fancy boutique, but Love, Me isn't your normal boutique.

The store on Birmingham Street in Halifax carries Canadian handmade, small-run, independent products for wearing, living and giving, according to their website.

More importantly, right now and until the end of October, they're featuring a display of art by Anna Stowe, a multidisciplinary artist and designer who seems to have taken a fancy to vintage motocross and other forms of the manly art.

Her show, Miles of Bliss, celebrates "the jumps, bumps, mud, rocks and dust of early motorcycle trials and scrambles," and is a mixture of mixed media paintings and inked line drawings.

If you love motorcycles and art, or even just shopping in fancy all-Canadian boutiques, get yer ass down there right now. If your ass can't get there, check out stodesigns.com for some inspiration.



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The Texas Vintage Racing Club, # 2

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The Texas Vintage Racing Club Established 1988

Jeffy whuppin' up on Marty Tripes added by Craig Knight

Richard Reeves and Joe Wilhelm at Mosier 75' added by Craig Knight

Torlief Hansen Pictures added by Ken Walden

Marty Tripes Pictures added by Ken Walden








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You and the horse you ride on

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You and the horse you ride on : this is a very cool blog by Greaser Mike who says," I'm what would happen if you gave a twelve-year-old a checking account and a taste for scotch."

Photo by Lisa Weimer

Photos by Ralph Corwin

Still images taken from the film "The Thrill Is On"

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Norton’s Rocketship, by Greg Williams

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Greg Williams is a professional writer, living in Calgary, Alberta.

His main area of interest is automotive and motorcycle journalism. A weekly column appears in the Calgary Herald’s Driving.ca section. The column is titled ‘On the Road’, see www.calgaryherald.com and click on Driving.ca under Weekly Sections. Monthly columns, titled ‘Western Perspectives’, run in Inside Motorcycles — a Canadian publication. He is also the book review editor for Inside Motorcycles. Feature articles run monthly in American Iron Magazine, the No. 1 motorcycle magazine on the newsstands, and every three months in the Antique Motorcycle, the publication of the Antique Motorcycle Club of America. He was recognized with the 1997 MAX Award for Motorcycle Journalism — awarded for an article published in the Oct. 1996 issue of the U.K. based magazine The Classic Motor Cycle regarding British motorcycle legend Bernie Nicholson. He was also recognized with the Castrol Chinthe Award for Automotive Journalism in 2003 and the Julie Wilkinson Motorsports Award for Excellence in Journalism in 2009. An avid enthusiast of vintage British motorcycles, he completely restored a 1946 Velocette MAC 350 c.c. single-cylinder machine in late 2003 and early 2004. He also own a complete, original and unrestored 1939 Triumph Speed Twin. The Triumph belonged to Bernie Nicholson, and still wears the patina obtained in the years Bernie owned the machine.

He is a professional member of the Professional Writer’s Association of Canada, a professional member of the Automobile Journalist’s Association of Canada, and a member in good standing of the Canadian Vintage Motorcycle Group, The Antique Motorcycle Club of America and the Velocette Owner’s Club of North America.

Norton’s Rocketship, by Greg Williams

The slogans ‘The Unapproachable Norton’ and ‘The World’s Best Road Holder’ defined one of the most fabled British motorcycle builders. Founded in 1898 by James Lansdowne Norton, or Pa, as he was commonly known, Norton brought to the motorcycling masses several technological advancements. Not the least of these developments was the featherbed frame as designed by the McCandless brothers.


Since the early 1940s the brothers had been working on advanced frame designs, labouring at improving the handling of their own motorcycle – a Triumph. But the McCandless brothers came to the attention of Norton and they were persuaded to design a frame for the Birmingham, England motorcycle company. The featherbed was the result – an all welded duplex tube frame with swingarm rear suspension. The design of the frame was such that the centre of gravity was lowered, and the fuel tank placed further back from the steering head to help centralize weight.


Their featherbed motorcycle chassis, introduced to Norton in 1949 and used in the 1950 Isle of Man TT races, revolutionized how Norton motorcycles handled. There are a couple of stories about how the name featherbed was coined. The most popular is that in 1950, when Norton racer Harold Daniell first rode a 500cc single-cylinder equipped McCandless frame he was so impressed with the handling that he equated it to “riding on a featherbed.” The name stuck.


In 1951 Norton’s Model 7 500cc twin-cylinder engine slid into the featherbed frame, and that was the Model 88 Dominator. Over the years Norton used the featherbed frame for many of its motorcycles, including its more pedestrian 350cc and 500cc single-cylinder machines. It was the twin-cylinder Dominator Model 99 that grew to 600cc in 1956, and to 650cc in 1961 with the 650SS. On that bike, he frame top rails were pinched together, decreasing the width of the frame to better accommodate a rider’s knees... Read more



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