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HOPETOWN REUNION 2012
We here at www.superhunky.com got invited to a special event in Simi Valley, CA, by the Zimmerman brothers, who run a hi-tech machine shop in a giant two story building. Inside the building, was a museum display of about 300 bikes all in pristine shape, everything from pre-1960 CZ twin-pipe motocros...(more)
YOUR FAVORITE DIRT BIKE
A few months ago we ran a feature called "Your Favorite Dirt Bike". We got a lot of response on it. Now we want to do it again, but with a slight change. Send us a picture of your favorite Dirt Bike and at least 100 words describing your bike, and why you like it so much. The story, along with pic...(more)
END OF THE TRAIL
END OF THE TRAIL   BY MATT CUDDY   I just got off the phone with my good riding buddy Dave Brown. Dave’s a great guy, helped me drywall my bathroom when the contractor flaked out on me, was always the guy who squished the rings together on my CR500’s piston, while I held the barrel s...(more)
Tools and other strange stuff
If you’ve been around motorcycles for any extended period of time, and like me, have owned the same tool box for the last forty years, parts and tools that use to have a great importance in daily life have been forgotten, cast off and shoved to the back of the drawers. When I was nineteen,...(more)
A CZ FOUR STROKE?
  Did you know that Jawa/CZ produced (gasp) four stroke motorcycles at one time? Yes, those miserable, complicated oil spewing four strikers. It’s is truly hard to believe that the once mighty Jawa/CZ factory that manufactured such motorcycle icons as the mighty 1973 Blue tank 400, the red ...(more)
FUN AT THE RANCH
  Anza California. Where the hell is Anza? After locating and unfolding the dog-eared Auto Club Map, Anza is a mere spec on the map, somewhere in the great stinking hot lower desert, between Temecula and Palm Desert. Ah, but Anza holds something rare and wonderful; a carbon copy of the Carlsbad Gra...(more)
FAVORITE DIRT BIKES
My name is Mike McKinley, and i'm from the province of New Brunswick in Canada. i have owned just over one hundred motorcycles, most of them dirt or enduro, and wih the exception of a few can-ams, the rest were japanese. We never had the dealer networks like you did in the U.S.A. therefore, maico'...(more)
YOUR FAVORITE DIRT BIKE
What’s your favorite dirt bike? As one who has owned, rode, cursed, set on fire, coveted and hated hundreds of dirt bikes, I have some distinct memories both good and bad of dirt bikes over the past 30 or so years. Some were superb handling hand grenades you could get just a few rides out of ...(more)
THREE BIKES YOU'VE NEVER HEARD OF
  In the never ending quest to keep our readers updated on strange and esoteric machinery, here are three brands of motorcycles that you most likely never heard of, but played an important role in the evolution of the motorcycle as we know it today. You can see where the Japanese got a lot of their...(more)
OBSESSION NO.3
  Being stuck in a wheelchair is no fun, but I still get my kicks with my Honda 70 powered wheelchair, making drive shaft cannons, and lately restoring old motors from the turn of the last century.    These motors powered everything from Washing Machines, Hay Bailers, Potato mashers, Grinders, Cru...(more)
HALF THE FUN IS GETTING THERE
  The tic-tic-tic of Mike Simeon’s electric fuel pump in his '69 SS 396 El Camino signaled his arrival blocks before he and his baby blue bad ass El Camino showed up. I was usually awake, waiting for Mike in the pre-dawn cold with a cup of coffee, and could hear the fuel pump before Mike show...(more)

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