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After World War II had ended it was decided to start peacetime production with a three-wheeler truck. This was an unorthodox but very good design. Then, anticipating the motor cycle boom and intending to have a stake in it, the Aermacchi chiefs looked for a good designer who could produce an attractive lightweight. Their choice was Lino Tonti, who had been at Benelli and had worked on aircraft engines during the war. Tonti designed a 50 cc motorcycle that broke the land speed record for the displacement.

The bikes produced by Aermacchi were quite successful in the postwar Italian market, also thanks to their repeated placements on the race tracks. The firm designed and produced models incorporating the Italian word “Ala” (wing) in its names, such as “Ala Verde”, “Ala Blu” and “Ala d’Oro” (respectively “green wing”, “blue wing” and “golden wing”).

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The Yamaha DT50MX is the most common 50cc in the Yamaha DT series. Production started in 1978 and ended 1996. The moped is very common in Scandinavia where its leasing competitor was the Honda MT50. DT50MX is available in different colours, such as red-black, red-white, blue-yellow, black-purple and white-pink.

Boasting a 50cc engine and a five-speed sequential gearbox, it is still commonly used by 16-year olds as a means of getting on the road without having to resort to a scooter, a range of aftermarket parts are available including performance reeds, big bore kits, racing exhaausts and sprocket kits which enable the engine to develop more power and/or speed.

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Honda’s NSR 50 is one of the most commonly raced bikes in Minibike club road racing. Though the NSR 50 is not street legal in the United States, safe and legal racing environments are available in many states, often found at kart racing tracks.

The NSR50 has a 49cc water-cooled, two-stroke engine, a manual clutch with six gears, and typically falls into class with other two-stroke 50cc road bikes such as the YSR50. Though, it is also commonly classed with up to 110cc four-stroke bikes.

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The World championship of bike building is a competition annually held by Custom Chrome and the American Motorcycle Dealer (AMD) magazine. The first competition was held in 2004 as an extension of the AMD ProShow Bike Builder contest series held in Europe held since 2002, which by some already was unofficially acknowledged as a European championship The top three finishers from the European championship are rewarded with an entry in the world championship, there are also a number of affiliate events in various countries in Europe as well as in Japan Australia and Mexico. The judging of the events are done by ‘peer review’, in that all competitors collectively decide the winner, together with a select panel of invited judges from the press and aftermaket industry.

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Powered By A Four-Cylinder Liquid Hydrogen Engine, This CB750 Is Controlled By An OLED Touch Screen With Wifi, GPS And 3G!

If Honda wishes to bring back the CB750, look no further than Igor Chak’s Hydrogen concept.

The bike — which ran in production 1969 - 2003 — was an unprecedented piece of machinery. It was the first to offer a front disc brake and an straight-4 engine with an overhead camshaft all on one affordable, production bike.

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Minsk Motorcycle or also known as Motovelo Corp, is a company that produces bicycles and motorcycles.

It is situated in the capital of Belarus in Minsk.

History

The plant was founded on 6 November 1945 making bicycles. In 1951 motorcycle production started with the transfer of production lines from MMZ in Moscow.

The company produced a two stroke 125cc motorcycle based on a pre-World War II DKW RT 125 design made in Minsk in the former Soviet Union (now Belarus). This model was imported into Great Britain by Neval Motorcycles and initially tradenamed as “Neval”.

Minsk motorcycles were among the Soviet motorcycles distributed by SATRA, UK, under the brand name Cossack, (Satra was originally located in Surrey, England, later moving to Carnaby) from 1973 to 1979.

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The Buell Motorcycle Company is an American motorcycle manufacturer based in East Troy, Wisconsin and founded by ex-Harley-Davidson engineer Erik Buell. The company first partnered with Harley-Davidson in 1993, and became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Harley by 2003. On November 17, 2006, Buell announced that it had produced and shipped its 100,000th motorcycle.

History

The first Buell motorcycle, the RW750, was built in 1983 purely for competing in the AMA Formula 1 motorcycle road racing championship. At that time, Erik Buell was a top contending privateer motorcycle racer. After completion of the first two RW750 racing machines, one of which was sold to another racing team, the Formula 1 series was cancelled. Buell then turned his focus towards racing-inspired, street-going machines using engines manufactured by Harley. In 1993, Harley-Davidson Incorporated joined in partnership with Buell Motor Company as a 49% stakeholding minority partner and the company formed was renamed “Buell Motorcycle Company”. In 1998 Harley purchased majority control of Buell, and it has been a subsidiary ever since. Since then, Buell has used modified Harley-Davidson Sportster engines to power its motorcycles.

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QLINK’s Legacy 250 is powered by a lightweight, 244cc, 4-stroke, liquid-cooled engine. Despite its entry-level price tag of US$3,250, this bike has many features of a much more expensive machine.

Let’s start with the liquid-cooled engine, which can aid reliability, is a feature not normally found on a bike in this price range. Comparable bikes such as the Honda Rebel, Honda Nighthawk, Yamaha VStar 250 and Suzuki GZ250 don’t have it.

Another feature of the Legacy is the front and rear disc brakes. Though disc brakes on a 244cc bike might not be mandatory, they will certainly give the newbie a little more confidence while stopping than drum brakes. The Rebel, VStar 250 and GZ250 have disc brakes up front and mechanical drums in the rear, while the Nighthawk uses drums up front and in the rear.

An array of creature comforts is also included on the Legacy, including a built-in audio system with FM radio and USB port. Located under the seat, the USB port allows the rider to play downloaded music on an iPod, MP3 player or memory stick. Controls for the audio system are located right below the handlebars.

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The Crocker Motorcycle Company was an American manufacturer of single-cylinder speedway racing motorcycles from 1932, powerful V-twin road motorcycles from 1936, and the “Scootabout,” one of the first modern styled motor scooters, in the late 1930s. Production ceased in 1942.

In 1999 a new corporation was formed to manufacture replica parts, and now produces complete Crockers in kit form, following the original specifications.

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Sokół 1000 (also known as CWS 1000 and M 111) was the heaviest Polish pre-war motorcycle manufactured by the PZInż works, both for civilian and military use in the Polish Army.

History
In late 1927 the Polish Army created a specification for a general purpose heavy motorcycle that was to replace the Harley-Davidson motorcycles used by then. By 1932 the Centralne Warsztaty Samochodowe works prepared a short series of roughly 200 CWS M55 motorcycles equipped with a sidecar. Although heavily-based on American designs (the bike itself was based upon Harley-Davidson, while the engine was almost a direct copy of Indian), the machine proved to be unreliable.

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