Albert J. Stevens & Co. Ltd, of Wolverhampton, England was founded in 1909 to produce motorcycles. In 1909 AJS built a motorcycle that utilized a JAP V Twin 1000cc motor, leading link front forks and a swing arm rear suspension. The first “real” AJS that used an AJS produced motor came o...(more)

  [fr. mud + lark]1) archaic  an urchin who grubs for a living along the tide flats of the English Thames2) someone who scavenges in river mud for items of value (riverside equivalent of a beachcomber) Penton, that manufacturer of race-winning enduro and MX machinery, in 1973 came out with perhaps...(more)

                                   THE SIMSON Simson was yet another German motorcycle manufacturer handed over to the Soviet Union as war reparations at the end of WWII. Although the 250cc model looks like a carbon copy of a fifties era 250 BMW, you have to wonder what was going on in East German...(more)

  Back in the early nineteen seventies, the dirt bike craze had reached epic proportions, and every manufacturer of wheeled vehicles across the globe wanted in on the game. Companies that produced gurneys for ambulances, shock absorber for cars, industrial taco carts, even wheeled shopping basket m...(more)

  Since my wife Amparo is from Brazil, watching the World Cup is a mandatory event here at our house. So around eleven this morning, we flipped the tube to the Mexican TV station that had the World Cup on. After about thirty minutes of Bud Light commercials, the camera panned to a group of young ...(more)

  Yes, the once mighty National Rifle Association, that defender of the Constitution and all things 2nd Amendment just caved in to Nancy Pelosi and her liberal minions, by supporting a “limit” to 1st Amendment free speech rules, due to the specter of the “other” political pa...(more)

MATT RATES THE BEERS   Typically Beer is made from water, hops, yeast and barley. But with a few variations, you can transform a truly mediocre beer into a feast of delight, imbued with everything from a citrusy tang to a heavy bock laden with sweetness. Let’s take a taste test of the most ...(more)

  The 1972 TM250J Suzuki Champion   The 250 Champion, produced by Suzuki in 1972 was the factory’s answer to the race winning works bike Joel Robert campaigned to the world championship in the 1971 season. While the 250 looked like a copy of the works RH250, it was actually based on t...(more)

Looks like this you-know-what is about to hit the fan here in LALA land. Being I was born and raised in Los Angeles, I consider myself to be very open minded when it comes to race relations, and hell, I'm an honorary Mexican for that matter. My wife is from Brazil, and we use to go to San Felipe eve...(more)

    In the early nineteen seventies, the writing was on the wall for competitive motorcycles in the arena of world motocross competition. British manufacturers had tried in vain to re-capture lost glory with one-off works four stroke machinery, that proved fragile and economically un-sound, and ...(more)

  Last Sunday the wife, my Mom and I made the trip to Riverside California to visit my daughter Melissa, who’s attending the University of California there, UCR. It’s about seventy miles away from where we live in Burbank, and we made the trip in my Chrysler Towne & Country in about an ...(more)

  The F7 175cc Dual Sport was built by Kawasaki from 1971 to 1976, and while the motorcycle could be mistaken for the 125, you couldn’t mistake the power the 175 had over its smaller brother. Like all Kawasaki small bores of the time, the F7 utilized a rotary valve induction system, the onl...(more)

  In 1968, I was 10 years old, and that summer I was recovering from a wreck involving a Briggs & Stratton bolted to an upside down tricycle. My Grandfather had welded up some sprockets for the contraption, and we were both thrilled and disappointed when the tricycle failed at speed, and left me th...(more)

                                                                            There are lots of things in life that are the “last one”. The last beer, the last sparkplug, the last overbore on a worn cylinder, the last breath, etc. But when it comes to the last Adelanto Grand Prix, that&r...(more)

Last night I had heartburn really bad, so around 2:30 am I got up to get a glass of bicarb. As I walked through the den, I heard something out in the garage.Grabbing the 7 iron I keep by the back door, I crept outside to the garage, commando style. I could hear muffled talking, like whispering comin...(more)

I was reminiscing about the old days, and looked back at all the strange old street bikes we had to make work in the dirt. I was a flat broke teenager, with a love of dirt riding, my only motorcycle at the time was a Jawa 90 that ran for about ten minutes before it blew up. Most of my buddies were i...(more)

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