Bike makes

[easy-rider-usa]

now I have read and replied to enough of these threads i though I would try a few of these out myself.

Ok I will start off with a motorbike make,

And then someone puts another one in ect.ect. you know how it goes ok

Harley Davidson

[Bassman]

Truimph! :D

[easy-rider-usa]

Dragstar !! :)

[Fran]

Suzuki.........

[easy-rider-usa]

Yamaha :D :D

[Fran]

Shuttleworth Snap....... :D

[easy-rider-usa]

ducati :cool: !

[rommel]

kawasaki :rolleyes:

[easy-rider-usa]

nice bike make

got one myself :D

Honda

[UKRobKLR650]

Brough Superior

[easy-rider-usa]

motoguzzi :D

[UKRobKLR650]

Velocette....

[easy-rider-usa]

Mocheck Harrier

[milo.uk]

Sunbeam .....

[saxman]

ariel......

[rommel]

raleigh :D :D :D

[UKRobKLR650]

Coventry Eagle

[easy-rider-usa]

Monjuic :D :cool: :D

[Dogz]

Matchless...

[milo.uk]

CanAm .....

[UKRobKLR650]

Maico.............

[Dogz]

Titan........

[Dougie]

Adler.......

[milo.uk]

Benelli .....

[Dougie]

Henderson........

[BikerGran]

Morini....

[Otter]

Famous James

[Dougie]

Zundapp.......

[krammer]

laverda....

[Urban Terrorist]

Rover.......

[Jimbob]

Curtis V8 :eek:

[Dougie]

Big Dog.........

[kitkatman]

honda...............

[Dougie]

The Flying Merkel....

[kitkatman]

puch maxi :)

[Bassman]

Sucker Punch Sallys :D

[Dougie]

Sucker Punch Sallys :D
Ain't never heard o' that make. :eek:

Phelon & Moore AKA Panther

[kitkatman]

Sucker Punch Sallys :D
i WILL chop one :D

[pete lee]

Ural.......

[kitkatman]

Ural.......
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :confused:

[Dougie]

So what's a Sucker Punch Sally then? :confused: :confused: :confused:

[kitkatman]

So what's a Sucker Punch Sally then? :confused: :confused: :confused:
dont know.....tell me :D

[Dougie]

I ain't got a clue,that's why I'm askin'...... :eek: :eek:

[Grav]

Ural
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :confused:

Tis a Russian motorcycle, as is a Planeta :D


http://www.ural-motorcycles.com/index.htm

[kitkatman]

Tis a Russian motorcycle, as is a Planeta :D


http://www.ural-motorcycles.com/index.htm
bit like a skoda with 2 wheels then! :D

[pete lee]

ural's are russian about 6 different models mainly wit sidecars tried to attach a photo for you doubting thomas'

[Dougie]

Good evening Mr Graves,We've been expecting you.......

[Grav]

bit like a skoda with 2 wheels then! :D

Loads a fun in the sidecar. :D

[pete lee]

http://www.ural.com/ here's a link

[Grav]

Good evening Mr Graves,We've been expecting you.......

don't tell me you where stroking a white persian cat when you said that..... :D

[Dougie]

Do they not make an outfit with sidecar drive?

[Dougie]

don't tell me you where stroking a white persian cat when you said that..... :D
No,a Russian Blue. :D

[kitkatman]

i like them........

[Bassman]

A sucker Punch Sally is an old school type chop , the firm has a manufacturing licence in the states, so its a make... Great looking bikes aas well.. take a look at the site...
http://www.suckerpunchsally.com/

[Duggie]

Italjet
as my 6 year old has a bike and I have to be patient.....tap tap tap

[sprintbint]

OEC.........based in pompey

[Duggie]

JAP another tla mush

[saxman]

Dnieper.....

[Ziggy]

BSA........

[Ziggy]

NORTON..........

[saxman]

vellocete....

[Duggie]

D....K...W Did nobody else have bike top trumps at skool or am I far too old?

[Ziggy]

Boss Hoss (Chevy smallblock V8... :eek: :eek: )

[saxman]

royal enfield

[Duggie]

Cotton......

[sprintbint]

Bmw..............

[Ziggy]

Douglus......

[Duggie]

Hongdou....

[Friar Tuck]

Indian!.........

[UKRobKLR650]

Vincent.......

[Friar Tuck]

Francis Barnet!

[Bosun]

triton,,,,

[pete lee]

Kymco.........

[bear]

sanglas, made in spain i think

[Dougie]

Associated Motor Cycles......

[Blondie]

AJS, used to have one years ago

[ForestFred]

Henderson.........

[captaincondom]

suzhondaki m(my rat)

[wearthefoxhat]

Hesketh V1000
(had mine for 20 years)

[Mojow1958]

Armstrong...

[Ziggy]

Jawa........

[churchill]

exelsior my first bike the massive 98 cc two speed pre unit two stroke

[Bosun]

alldays and onions..

[Sir Ewok]

O K Supreme

Dunelt

Calthorpe

Sunbeam

Ariel

HRD Vincent

CZ

Ner-A-Car

Corgi (The little Parachutable bike)

New Imperial

Sun

Excelsior

Levis

New Hudson

DOT

Cotton (Ha! Ha! Dot Cotton)

Montessa

Laverda

Motobi

Hyosung

MV Augusta

Olmo (Italian)

Olympique (French)

Ogar (Czecholslovakian)

And many more from the Ewokandtuck Motorcycle Museum.......

[Santa]

Nobody's yet mentioned Victory. :rolleyes:

[Sir Ewok]

Thought HMS Victory was Nelson's ship ,not a bike. LOL!!!

[Freak]

huskavana (that can't be spelt right :confused: )

[easy-rider-usa]

dunno m8 really but who gives two ****s

[UKRobKLR650]

Gas gas........

[weldy]

aprillia :D

[weldy]

or the woolworths special..................TOMOS :D :D :D

matt

[weldy]

derbi :D

matt

[weldy]

husaberg (swedish) :D

matt

[weldy]

italijet

:D
matt

[UKRobKLR650]

Vertamatti.....

[Ziggy]

MZ..............http://bestsmileys.com/puking/5.gif

[DaiPunk]

CZ













runs away











faster than aforementioned motorized bicycle

[tease]

Can-Am, little known make, but my first official bike when I was young!

[Gormen]

Tiger.

there as been mentioned MZ,CZ, werent there a EZ :D

[Crofty]

ural .

[Ziggy]

Indian......

[Jimbob]

Tomos

You could buy them in Woolworths :D

[slob]

mv augusta....

[thor66]

ccm :cool:

[brandersnatch]

Vor........

[Jimbob]

Vertimatti

[Jimbob]

Zong Shen :eek:

[Jimbob]

If your including race bikes.....

Fior

[Jimbob]

Paton 500.

[Jimbob]

Chevallier

[Jay]

Gilera................

[Borg]

Puch Maxi


everyones dream bike

[Borg]

Harley Davidson


Bikes not tractors.

[UKRobKLR650]

Fantic..........

[Dougie]

Apologies if anyone's mentioned this already.......
The absolutely gorgeous BRITTEN V1000.

[Bassman]

Bikes not tractors.

Git :D

Bourget

[UKRobKLR650]

Moto Villa....

[Ziggy]

Right then, so far we have:

.1) Adler
.2) AJS
.3) Aprillia
.4) Ariel
.5) Armstrong
.6) Associated Motor Cycles
.7) Benelli
.8) Bmw
.9) BRITTEN
10) Brough Superior
11) BSA
12) Boss Hoss
13) Bourget
14) Calthorpe
15) CanAm
16) CCM
17) Chevallier
18) Corgi
19) Cotton
20) Curtis V8
21) CZ
22) DOT
23) Derbi
24) Ducati
25) Douglas
26) Dunelt
27) Exelsior
28) Fantic
29) Fior
30) Francis Barnet
31) Gas gas
32) Gilera
33) Harley Davidson
34) Henderson
35) Hesketh
36) Honda
37) Hongdou
38) Husaberg
39) Huskavana
40) Hyosung
41) Indian
42) Italjet
43) James
44) Jawa
45) kawasaki
46) Kymco
47) Laverda
48) Levis
49) Maico
50) Matchless
51) Merkel
52) Mocheck Harrier
53) Montessa
54) Morini
55) Motobi
56) Moto guzzi
57) Moto Villa
58) MV Augusta
59) MZ
60) Ner-A-Car
61) New Hudson
62) New Imperial
63) NORTON
64) OEC
65) Ogar
66) Olmo
67) Olympique
68) Paton
69) Puch
70) Raleigh
71) Royal enfield
72) Sanglas
73) Sun
74) Sunbeam
75) Supreme
76) Suzuki
77) Tiger
78) Titan
79) Triton
80) TOMOS
81) Truimph
82) Ural
83) Velocette
84) Vertamatti
85) Victory
86) Vincent
87) Vor
88) Yamaha
89) Zong Shen
90) Zundapp

[Mojow1958]

Who's been onto the Auto-trader site then Ziggy?............... :p

[Borg]

Shuttleworth Snap....... :D


Turned out nice again

[Ziggy]

Who's been onto the Auto-trader site then Ziggy?............... :p


Wrong, it's the list from this very thread, and it took me friggin ages..... :p

[Friar Tuck]

Nerd! :D

You forgot SOS! and Coventry Eagle! and Norman! :p

[Urban Terrorist]

Elf......................

[bootfly1]

vincent black night

[Bassman]

you forgot Sucker Punch Sallys as well mate!! :D

[UKRobKLR650]

Right then, so far we have:

.1) Adler
1.5) AJP
.2) AJS
.3) Aprillia
.4) Ariel
.5) Armstrong
.6) Associated Motor Cycles
6.5) Beta
.7) Benelli
.8) Bmw
.9) BRITTEN
10) Brough Superior
11) BSA
12) Boss Hoss
13) Bourget
13.5)Buell
13.7) Cagiva
14) Calthorpe
15) CanAm
15.5) Cannondale
16) CCM
17) Chevallier
18) Corgi
19) Cotton
19.5) Coventry Eagle
20) Curtis V8
21) CZ
22) DOT
23) Derbi
24) Ducati
25) Douglas
26) Dunelt
27) Exelsior
28) Fantic
29) Fior
30) Francis Barnet
31) Gas gas
32) Gilera
32.5)Greeves
33) Harley Davidson
34) Henderson
35) Hesketh
36) Honda
37) Hongdou
38) Husaberg
39) Husqvarna
40) Hyosung
41) Indian
42) Italjet
43) James
44) Jawa
45) kawasaki
45.5) Kramit
45.7) KTM
46) Kymco
46.5) Lambretta
47) Laverda
48) Levis
49) Maico
50) Matchless
51) Merkel
52) Mocheck Harrier
53) Montessa
54) Morini
55) Motobi
56) Moto guzzi
56.5) Moto Roma
57) Moto Villa
58) MV Augusta
59) MZ
60) Ner-A-Car
61) New Hudson
62) New Imperial
63) NORTON
64) OEC
65) Ogar
66) Olmo
67) Olympique
68) Paton
69) Puch
70) Raleigh
71) Royal enfield
72) Sanglas
73) Sun
74) Sunbeam
75) Supreme
76) Suzuki
77) Tiger
78) Titan
78.5) TM
79) Triton
80) TOMOS
81) Truimph
82) Ural
83) Velocette
84) Vertamatti
84.5) Vespa
85) Victory
86) Vincent
87) Vor
88) Yamaha
89) Zong Shen
90) Zundapp
There you go, ive bunged a few more on the list and spelt Husqvarna right to :D

[Ziggy]

Revised list from this thread:

A
..1) Adler
..2) AJP
..3) AJS
..4) Aprillia
..5) Ariel
..6) Armstrong
..7) Associated Motor Cycles

B
..8) Beta
..9) Benelli
.10) Bmw
.11) BRITTEN
.12) Brough Superior
.13) BSA
.14) Boss Hoss
.15) Bourget
.16) Buell

C
.17) Cagiva
.18) Calthorpe
.19) CanAm
.20) Cannondale
.21) CCM
.22) Chevallier
.23) Corgi
.24) Cotton
.25) Coventry Eagle
.26) Curtis V8
.27) CZ

D
.28) DOT
.29) Derbi
.30) Ducati
.31) Douglas
.32) Dunelt

E
.33) Exelsior

F
.34) Fantic
.35) Fior
.36) Francis Barnet

G
.37) Gas gas
.38) Gilera
.39) Greeves

H
.40) Harley Davidson
.41) Henderson
.42) Hesketh
.43) Honda
.44) Hongdou
.45) Husaberg
.46) Husqvarna
.47) Hyosung

I
.48) Indian
.49) Italjet

J
.50) James
.51) Jawa

K
.52) kawasaki
.53) Kramit
.54) KTM
.55) Kymco

L
.56) Lambretta
.57) Laverda
.58) Levis

M
.59) Maico
.60) Matchless
.61) Merkel
.62) Mocheck Harrier
.63) Montessa
.64) Morini
.65) Motobi
.66) Moto guzzi
.67) Moto Roma
.68) Moto Villa
.69) MV Augusta
.70) MZ

N
.71) Ner-A-Car
.72) New Hudson
.73) New Imperial
.74) NORTON

O
.75) OEC
.76) Ogar
.77) Olmo
.78) Olympique

P
.79) Paton
.80) Puch

R
.81) Raleigh
.82) Royal enfield

S
.83) Sanglas
.84) Sun
.85) Sunbeam
.86) Supreme
.87) Suzuki

T
.88) Tiger
.89) Titan
.90) TM
.91) Triton
.92) TOMOS
.93) Truimph

U
.94) Ural

V
.95) Velocette
.96) Vertamatti
.97) Vespa
.98) Victory
.99) Vincent
100) Vor

Y
101) Yamaha

Z
102) Zong Shen
103) Zundapp

If anyone adds anymore I'll friggin

[Borg]

The bestest ever bike ever ever

The Raleigh Chopper

[UKRobKLR650]

Revised list from this thread:

A
..1) Adler
..2) AJP
..3) AJS
..4) Aprillia
..5) Ariel
..6) Armstrong
..7) Associated Motor Cycles

B
..8) Beta
..9) Benelli
.10) Bmw
.11) BRITTEN
.12) Brough Superior
.13) BSA
.14) Boss Hoss
.15) Bourget
.16) Buell

C
.17) Cagiva
.18) Calthorpe
.19) CanAm
.20) Cannondale
.21) CCM
.22) Chevallier
.23) Corgi
.24) Cotton
.25) Coventry Eagle
.26) Curtis V8
.27) CZ

D
.28) DOT
.29) Derbi
.30) Ducati
.31) Douglas
.32) Dunelt

E
.33) Exelsior

F
.34) Fantic
.35) Fior
.36) Francis Barnet

G
.37) Gas gas
.38) Gilera
.39) Greeves

H
.40) Harley Davidson
.41) Henderson
.42) Hesketh
.43) Honda
.44) Hongdou
.45) Husaberg
.46) Husqvarna
.47) Hyosung

I
.48) Indian
.49) Italjet

J
.50) James
.51) Jawa

K
.52) kawasaki
.53) Kramit
.54) KTM
.55) Kymco

L
.56) Lambretta
.57) Laverda
.58) Levis

M
.59) Maico
.60) Matchless
.61) Merkel
.62) Mocheck Harrier
.63) Montessa
.64) Morini
.65) Motobi
.66) Moto guzzi
.67) Moto Roma
.68) Moto Villa
.69) MV Augusta
.70) MZ

N
.71) Ner-A-Car
.72) New Hudson
.73) New Imperial
.74) NORTON

O
.75) OEC
.76) Ogar
.77) Olmo
.78) Olympique

P
.79) Paton
.80) Puch

R
.81) Raleigh
.82) Royal enfield

S
.83) Sanglas
.84) Sun
.85) Sunbeam
.86) Supreme
.87) Suzuki

T
.88) Tiger
.89) Titan
.90) TM
.91) Triton
.92) TOMOS
.93) Truimph

U
.94) Ural

V
.95) Velocette
.96) Vertamatti
.97) Vespa
.98) Victory
.99) Vincent
100) Vor

Y
101) Yamaha

Z
102) Zong Shen
103) Zundapp

If anyone adds anymore I'll friggin
h dear, ive thought of more like NSU and Rudge and more. Still cant think of a Q though :D

[thor66]

ossa :cool:

[Jimbob]

Cannondale

[UKRobKLR650]

Cannondale
I'd already added that but they were ****e and over priced anyway, should have stuck to push bikes :D

[firebike]

Revised list from this thread:

A
..1) Adler
..2) AJP
..3) AJS
..4) Aprillia
..5) Ariel
..6) Armstrong
..7) Associated Motor Cycles

B
..8) Beta
..9) Benelli
.10) Bmw
.11) BRITTEN
.12) Brough Superior
.13) BSA
.14) Boss Hoss
.15) Bourget
.16) Buell

C
.17) Cagiva
.18) Calthorpe
.19) CanAm
.20) Cannondale
.21) CCM
.22) Chevallier
.23) Corgi
.24) Cotton
.25) Coventry Eagle
.26) Curtis V8
.27) CZ

D
.28) DOT
.29) Derbi
.30) Ducati
.31) Douglas
.32) Dunelt

E
.33) Exelsior

F
.34) Fantic
.35) Fior
.36) Francis Barnet

G
.37) Gas gas
.38) Gilera
.39) Greeves

H
.40) Harley Davidson
.41) Henderson
.42) Hesketh
.43) Honda
.44) Hongdou
.45) Husaberg
.46) Husqvarna
.47) Hyosung

I
.48) Indian
.49) Italjet

J
.50) James
.51) Jawa

K
.52) kawasaki
.53) Kramit
.54) KTM
.55) Kymco

L
.56) Lambretta
.57) Laverda
.58) Levis

M
.59) Maico
.60) Matchless
.61) Merkel
.62) Mocheck Harrier
.63) Montessa
.64) Morini
.65) Motobi
.66) Moto guzzi
.67) Moto Roma
.68) Moto Villa
.69) MV Augusta
.70) MZ

N
.71) Ner-A-Car
.72) New Hudson
.73) New Imperial
.74) NORTON

O
.75) OEC
.76) Ogar
.77) Olmo
.78) Olympique

P
.79) Paton
.80) Puch

R
.81) Raleigh
.82) Royal enfield

S
.83) Sanglas
.84) Sun
.85) Sunbeam
.86) Supreme
.87) Suzuki

T
.88) Tiger
.89) Titan
.90) TM
.91) Triton
.92) TOMOS
.93) Truimph

U
.94) Ural

V
.95) Velocette
.96) Vertamatti
.97) Vespa
.98) Victory
.99) Vincent
100) Vor

Y
101) Yamaha

Z
102) Zong Shen
103) Zundapp

If anyone adds anymore I'll friggin


what about regal raptor

[Dougie]

Nobody's mentioned the bike we ALL have at one time or another.......

The VICIOUS BASTARD as in "START ya Vicious Bastard!" :D :D


Why thank you,that IS my coat.

[teflon]

h dear, ive thought of more like NSU and Rudge and more. Still cant think of a Q though :D

QUASAR

but apparently its too short! Damn thing was about twelve feet longe, feet forward thing with a roof - so why the system should say that it was too short, I dont know!

[Borg]

What about regal raptor

is that a question or a statment ?

:)

[blackhack]

Stimpson Scorcher

[El_Mick]

NUT

Jesmond

Grindlay Peerless

Ivy

OSS

Vellosolex

Rudge

panther

Coventry Eagle

minerva

clyno

wilkinson

wooler

olivos

FN

Dot

Bat

LG

zenith

puch

Don't think any o these have been mentioned

[PILRCGeff]

Munch Mammut

[teflon]

OK, to sort the wheat from the chaff; we have, that can be confirmed as genuine manufacturers;

Adler
German champion of the two-stroke, who built an air cooled, piston ported parallel twin, that was the inspiration for the Japanese machines of the sixties, as well as many others including the Arial 'Arrow'.
AJS
AJ-Stevens. Eventually amalgumated into Matchless & Norton under AMC umbrella
Alldays and Onions
Early brittish maker
Aprillia
Itallian assembler using proprietry engines
Ariel
Also killed by being bought by BSA, after a healthy hammering at the hands of Triumph boss, Jack Sangster, and prodigy Edward Turner, who left them making a ctantankerouse square four....
Armstrong
Armourments company that bought CCM to sell the 'bombardier' to NATO. Built an interesting carbon framed 250 racer in the early eighjties based on disk valved rotax engine; believe gave Niel McKenzie his first 'Factory' ride.
Bat
Best After Test' - early sporting machines
Batavas
Dutch moped maker
Benelli
Italian marque who ripped off the Japanese, and beat Honda to making a road going 'six'1
Beta
Italian trial bike maker
Big Dog
American manufacturer of Harley based customs, of varying flavours.
BMW
Turned a ww1 Douglas dispatch bike engine through 90 degrees in 1921, and sold the resultant machine under the name 'Flink', before giving it thier own aircraft proppeller badge and spending the next eighty years developing the thing.
Boss Hoss
This isn't a motorcycle, this is a 350 chevvy engine with a wheel at either end.
BRITTEN
The most advanced garage built special EVER
Brough
Ther bikes George Brough's dad built
Brough Superior
The 'Rolls Royce' of motorcycles, but dont forget that his Dad, made bikes in his own right too, under the 'Brough' name.
BSA
To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer. BSA decided to buy a fancy computer system in the late sixties to control thier manufacturing operations. Trouble was that it kept ordering stuff they didn't want, until it had run up such a big overdraft that the bankers declared them insolvent - apparently no-one even noticed this until the bank 'phoned them up to ask if they realised that they wer umpteen million over thier revolving credit limit!
Buell
Harleys in smart cloths
Bultaco
Campaigned by Sammy Miller for years. Also built road bikes. Barry Shene learned to ride on one under guidance opf factory founder, and his first race bikes were Bultaco's.
Cagiva
Italian consolidation marque.
Calthorpe
Early brittish maker
Can-Am
A snow-mobile manufacturer, and the only motorcycle manufacturer from Canada. Owned a stake in Austrian engine maker 'Rotax', and aquired the rights to build the CCM military dispatch bike, as part of the deal to supply engines to Armstrong, a british armourments manufacturer who had bought CCM for that express purpose. A licence was apparently also granted to Harley Davidson, who assembled them in Milwakee under protest, to satisfy American DoD requirements that all military procurement for the American forces was at least 40% American made!
Cannondale
Independent American maker, built dirt bikes around Rotax engines, much like Can-Am - and infact might be related.
CCM
Clews Competition Machines - see also Armstrong, who bought them out and CCM, who they were in partnership with at one time. Basically, Alan Clews bought all the spares inventory of BSA C15 & B40 bits, when the factory closed down in 1972, and built a special, which he started to sell. The armed forces were using B40's as dispatch bikes, and approached Clews for spare support and in the abscence of any viable alternative british manufacturer, asked him to develop a successor for it. As he'd run out of beeza bvits for his scrables bikes, he'd started using Austiran Rotax engines, hence the 'Bombardier' was born - an adapted competition BSA B40 frame with a 500cc Rotax OHC single in it. Lacking funds for seriel production, he was introduced to Armstrong, who made a lot of military equipment, and had the money to buy him out and tool up for production. Deal saw Rotax gain a licence to manufacture the same bike, that they passed to Canadian Snow-Mobile maker 'Can-Am', who part owned them. A further licence was granted to Harley Davidson, to molify the Americans who wanted thier forced to have bikes built in the USA, but needed it to be the same bike that the rest of the NATO forces were using for 'pool spares'.
Clyno
Early british maker
Corgi
The little Parachutable bike
Cotton
Made some racy singles in britain
Coventry Eagle
One of many Coventry bicycle makers that added proprietry engines to make motorbikes, a bit like Triumph did. There were dozens of companies that were called Coventry - 'something'. 'Climax' being one of them, making forklifts and grand prix engines! Coventry B&D were interesting, though, they built bikes in the 1920's using sleeve valve engines.
Curtis V8
Early American pioneer famouse for fitting a V8 aeroplane engine into a motorbike frame!
CZ
Checkoslovakian maker of two strokes, incorporated into Jawa when invaded by soviets. Sold eventualy to Cagiva
Derbi
Spanish moped maker
DKW
Das Kline Wonder - the little marvel, was originally a portable type writer, you know. Built a loverly little piston ported two stroke in the 1930's, that was licenced to any-one and every one after WW2, most popularly as the BSA 'Bantum', but just about every one made one, including Harley Davidson, but it was when they gave it to the Japanese thatthe troubles started. Mean while, back in East Germany, the factory was renamed 'MZ' and Walter Kaden carried on developing the thing, refining the science of 'porting' and inventing the expansion chamber exhaust.
Dnieper
Russian built BMW R66/R77 hybrid made using the tooling appropriated by the occupying forces at the end of WW2. Not to be confused with the Ural, that is essentialy the same thing. Apparently they are VERY different, and if you are unfortunate enough to meet an owner, they will elaborate at length on them, both between the russian, and chineese variants and the original BMW's!
DOT
Devoid of Trouble, or his little girls christian name? Will we ever know?
Douglas
After BMW nicked thier engine ideas, nicked them back, and went bust!
Ducati
Italian excentricity
Dunelt
small british maker
Excelsior
One in England, on in america
Fantic
Italian off roaders and screaming mopeds
FN
Belgian 'BSA' made interesting 'four' a bit like a Nimbus
Francis Barnet
Cute commuters
Gas gas
Italian Trials bikes
Gilera
Sublime singles and an exotic 'four' before MV bought it.
Greeves
Originaly villiers powered dirt bikes with intreguing moulton designed suspension. Eventualy made their own engines. Have started manufacture again - complete bikes can be bought new, but main catalogue is for spares for the classics.
Grindlay Peerless
English side car maker that made a few whole bikes too with proprietry engines
Harley Davidson
Early American pioneer, who apparently closed thier R&D dept after the wall st crash, and never re-opened it. Bought Armacchi in the 1960's
Henderson
American pioneer of the 'four'.
Hesketh
Lord Heskets's hobby company to build a modern'Vincent'
Honda
Worlds larges bike manufacturer. Did you know though, that in 1986, they listed more motorcycles in thier range, under 100cc's than all the other major manufacturers did models of ANY capacity, put together?!? How many different ways are there to make a moped!!!
Hongdou
Korean built honda's under licence, I think
Husaberg
Sweedish dirt bikes, founded by a bunch of redundant Husqvarna engineers when they were made redundant by that company's aquesition by Cagiva
Husqvarna
Sweedish dirt bikes
Hyosung
Korean manufacturer making Yamaha and Suzuki's under licence, or very good copies there-of
Indian
American pioneer, a bit like Harley, who the Yanks keep hoping will have a Bloor Triumph type pheonix revival.
Italjet
Famouse for kid size scramblers.
Ivy
English maker using jap engines
James
Dont know where the 'famous' bit comes from. An ad slogan from the '50's perhaps? Two stroke singles using Villiers engines, made in brum.

Cont......

[teflon]

JAP
Hmmm. Most famouse for engines, but I suppose they DID make SOME motorbikes a hundred years ago!
Jawa
Czecoslovakian importer of JAP engines, that went on to build its own engines, and then whole motorbikes
Jesmond
They were around for eight years before WW1! WTF is looking for these obscurities?
Kawasaki
They build ships you know?!
KTM
Austrian dirt bikes
Kymco
Tywanese moped maker
Lambretta
Scooters that at least had both wheels in the same axis!
Laverda
Italian combine harvester manufacturer, that like MV Agusta built motorbikes for a hobby. Tripples sound nice though!
Levis
Yes, quite successful english maker, built some interesting multi-port two strokes before WW2. Also think that there was an American Levis, that possibly predated them, but cant find reference to that one at the mo.
Maico
German manufacturer of two strokes, like Zundap, that came to prominence with enduro machines of striking resembelence to east german rival MZ's.
Matchless
Early british pioneer, eventually incorporated into AMC with AJS & Norton.
Minerva
Think they only ever made engines. OK, no, like JAP they did make the odd whole motorbike
Montesa
Montesa, it only has one 's' Spanish Trial bikes, now owned by Honda.
Morini
Excentric italian manufacturer of a sporting, inline v-twin, with Heron combustion chambers, that dispite being a push rod four stroke, could cut it with the Jap stink wheel s in the seventies, especially in the twisties.
Motobi
Two stroke Binelli's
Moto-Guzzi
Amazing what you can do with a fire pump engine, innit? & Do you say 'Guzy' or 'Gootzie'?
Munch Mammut
Mad german who built a featherbed style frame around an NSU car engine, and went bancrupt, before turning his atension to doing silly things with Gixers
MV Augusta
Count Augusta's hobby, when he wasn't making helicopters.
MZ
East German DKW factory - churned out rudimentary two stroke commuters, but with the genius of Walter Kaaden, built some hugely successful racers that paved the way for two stroke domination
Ner-A-Car
Alfred Scott had a hand in this. Powered by an Austin 7 car engine, it was a sort of part trike, park outfit, anomoly
New Hudson
English pioneer
New Imperial
English pioneer
Nimbus
Danish manufacturer, built charming in-line four for many decades
Norman
Bleeding eck! Yes, they made villiars powered things, but FFS this company was so small they were taken over by Raliegh!
NORTON
Feather beds and the Manx.
NSU
German; some noteable racers in 1950's & 60's
NUT
Newcastle Upon Tyne - used Jap engines
O K Supreme
small british maker
OEC
Some obscure british manufacturer not very famouse for a wiered 'duplex steering frame'?!?
Ogar
(Czecholslovakian) - yes they were - they made one bike - a 350cc single cyclinder two stroke a bit like an MZ
Olivos
English. Used a blackburn engine, made for 1921 only! Who's finding these?
Olmo
(Italian) - yes, made a 35cc and 48cc moped. I don’t think this should be allowed as that isn't realy big enough to qualify as a motorcycle, is it?
Olympique
(French) - yes
Ossa
Spanish Trial bike maker, like Montesa and Bultaco
Phelon & Moore / Panther
Sloper singles of advanced design in 1920's that soldiered on into the 1960's with evenless development than Harley applied.
Puch
Austrian maker of mopeds.
QUASAR
Feet forward thing with a roof
Raleigh
Most famouse for the 'chopper' bycycle and then the 'grifter', but they did make some mopeds I seem to recall..
Regal
Early british pioneer
Rover
Invented the 'safety cycle' in the 1880's - the first bicycle with equal sized wheels, a diamond frame and a chain drive. Briefly made motorbikes in the pioneering era, before concentrating on cars. Pioneered the Frank Whittles gas turbines in the 1950's & 60's, before being amalgamated into British Leyland, where the gas turbine licences were all given to Rolls Royce aero-engines. Business progressively run into the ground for the next thirty years, and now dead. Pleas let it RIP!
Royal Enfield
Now made in Indai
Rudge
Nice racing singles
Sanglas
, made in spain i think. Correct. Along with Montesa, Ossa, Bultaco and a couple of others.
Sherco
Modern Spanish Trials bike, with some link to Bultaco
SOS
tiny manufacturer building with villiers engines
Sucker Punch Sallys
OK I'll believe you - guess they are a bit like 'Big Dog's.
Sun
another maker utilising villiers engines
Sunbeam
Eventually kiled by being bought by BSA.
Suzuki
Japanese company that would never have gone any where were it not for Ernst Degnar selling them all of Walter Kaaden & MZ's secrets - dont knock MZ, without them there would never have been a Hyabusa!
The Flying Merkel
Another American Pioneer, famouse for fire breathing 'ported' board racers. Engines had slots in the bottom of the barrel like a two stroke, supposedly to aid exhaust expulsion.
Tiger
An american company who made one motorcycle for one year! Some-one has been scouring the books!
Titan
Short lived Austrian manufacturer of the 1930's - some one scored the journals to find THIS marque!
TM
Obscure italian maker of leightweights
TOMOS
According to the dictionary, slovenian manufacturer making Puch's under licence. Not sure though if they are the same company that made the TOMOS sold in woolies - I have an idea from somewhere that that machine was actually a Batavas, made under licence somewhere else and tha the badging was a marketing ploy - but I COULD be wrong
Truimph
Another early pioneer founded by two germans to make bicycles in Coventry.
Ural
Russian built BMW R66/R77 hybrid made using the tooling appropriated by the occupying forces at the end of WW2. Not to be confused with the Dnieper, that is essentialy the same thing. Apparently they are VERY different, and if you are unfortunate enough to meet an owner, they will elaborate at length on them, both between the russian, and chineese variants and the original BMW's!
Velocette
Hall Green Birmingham. I worked on the site of their old factory for five years - facilities manager, reconed that every time they had to did a hole they found motorbike bits, burried when they bulldozed the place. It's next to the dog track, you know.
Velo-solex
French front wheel drive moped, as seen in every good black and white film noire, outside a café, being ridden by some tart in a tight pulover, outside a pavement café - has the engine on the forks over the front wheel that it drives by friction. Now being built in Hungary, apparently.
Vertimatti
Italina enduro/supermotards
Vespa
daft scooter that doesn't even have the wheels folowing the same track.
Victory
One in USA and one in Italy
Vincent
Stevenage Superbikes.
Wilkinson
Same people that make razor blades also made a four cylinder M/C in the early 1900's..
Wooler
remarkeably long lived company making machines with eccentric engines
Yamaha
How a company can get from making 'ethnic' reed musical instruments to motorcycles as a 'logical' business development, is beyond me.
zenith
british maker famouse for variable ratio belt drive and badge that had their logo behind bars when their gearing system was banned by ACU
Zong Shen
One of the MANY new chinese marques springing up from 'joint ventures' to make cheap stuff
Zundapp
German equivilent of BSA made everything from DKW two stroke singles like BSA's Bantum, right up to big BMW style flat twins. Survived to the mid eighties, by which time most machines were small two strokes, that lacked appeal of Japanese competition.

[teflon]

In the no-no and not so sure catagory we have:-

AJP
Cant find any reference. Can find AJR, or AJ-Robertson? Early british maker using JAP engines?
Associated Motor Cycles
You can only have this one if you DONT mean Matchless/AJS, as that AMC only owned them, it wasn't a marque in its own right. There was however a short lived AMC in America, during WW1, but whether the A stood for 'Associated' or 'American' is in dispute.
Bourget
Can find Bouchet & Bougery, both short lived early french pioneers, but you'd be scraping the barrel to find either!
Chevallier
Cannot find a single reference.
Elf
No reference. Few similar, but hey, not what's been entered.
Fior
Cannot find a single reference.
Kramit
No - I cant find any reference to them. A few similar, but sorry, no cigar. I think your making them up!
LG
Well they seem to make everything else, don’t they, but I think they draw the line at M/Cs becouse I cant find any reference to one.
Mocheck Harrier
Hmmm. I know that Mocheck was one of London's biggest dealers in the late seventies and early eighties - so I wont dismiss it, but I cant find any reference to a bike with that name, but, the 'Harrier' bit makes me think of something created by Norman Hyde from Norton parts?
Monjuic
Oblique reference to Laverda?
Moto Roma
Hmm stick 'Moto' infront of an italian place name as yes you do stand a good chance that it was once a motorbike maker, but in this case, I cant find one!
Moto Villa
Cannot find a single reference.
OSS
no reference found.
Paton
no reference found.
Paton 500
Cannot find a single reference.
Shuttleworth Snap
Err. yes, but I think that this only existed in the mind of George Formby fans!
Stimpson Scorcher
no reference found.
Supreme
OK Supreme, but no simply Supreme
suzhondaki
I'm not going to say anything
Triton
Sorry, no you cant have that one, not a marque in it's own right. apparently the rights to the name have been in dispute for thirty years, but you can have Dresda, as Dave Degans reportedly was declared a 'manufacturer' by companied ouse in order to get homologation status for Tritons in racing!
VICIOUS BASTARD
Yes - quite
Vor
No reference found, but still looking. Isn't this a weird danish thing that sat about five people in line, infront of the driver or something?

[UKRobKLR650]

Vor
No reference found, but still looking. Isn't this a weird danish thing that sat about five people in line, infront of the driver or something?
They make supermotos, not sure on the engine they use though. :D

[Bassman]

Here you go mate... google em and there are loads of links to Bourget bikes..

www.bourgets.com

:D

[teflon]

Yup, still checking out he not so sure makes; mean while, surprised no one has mentioned:-

Bimota
Exotically crafted italian exotica using proprietry engines
Bridgestone
Yes, the Japanese tyre maker - made a neat Suzuki style 350 in the early '60's
Scott
Advanced water cooled two strokes designed by Alfred Scot and built in Shipley Yorkshire for many years. First motorcycle with a kick-start and telescopic forks amongst other things
Silk
1970's attempt to revive the Scott, using a Spondon frame and up to date cycle parts
Krauser/Kriedler
Most famouse for hard luggage, but did build a lot of very successful lieghtweight racers, and coach built BMW's with thier own frames, bit like Bimotas
Flink
The original marque that BWM motorcycles were sold under.
Hilderbrant & Wolfmuller
The worlds FIRST production motorcycle - how could you NOT know this one and call your self bikers! German thing with two cylinders, the con rods acting directly on the rear wheel, and the pistons returned by thick rubber straps! OK, well it wasn't exactly a huge success, so I suppose that you're forgiven! Actually the machine responsible for Triumph making motorcycles though. apparently they were asked to be the UK importers, and thier chief engineer took on look at it, and reckoned it was a no hoper and he could design something better - so he did, wheich eventually lead to the Speed twin, etc etc etc.
Hodaka
Early Japanese marque, that sold exclusively in America. Many Americans actually think that it’s the same company as 'Honda' and that he name was 'westernised' by the marketing people when they launched the 'you meet the nicest people on a Honda ad campaign. They're wrong.
Amazonas
Brizilian thing with a VW beetle engine
Bohmerland
Actually, not surprised this one hasn't been mentioned. Was looking for the thing that I thought might be the Von. Found it. It's not Danish, its Checkoslovakian, and its not called a Von, its caled a Bohmerland, and it is just plain wiered.

[teflon]

Update

Vor-Vertimatti
Italina enduro/supermotards Solves that one. Vor & Vertimatti are the same thing.

Now, I've found:-
Bourget
Off the shelf customs, housing pretty stock Screamin Eagle kitted Harley motors.

So they are like
Sucker Punch Sallys
&
Big Dog

Ie; they are turn key customs or 'kit bikes'

So, kind of makes me wonder whether ANY of them should qualify for the list; if they do, then we also need to include:-

Hyde
Norman Hyde, trumpet empresario, offers complete café racer specials using featherbed copy frames or his own Harrier frame, built around original or remanufactured bonaville or trident motors. Figured if we are allowing the American turn key customs like the Big Dog or Bourget, these must qualify too
Harris
Well, the Harris Brothers have been making the Magnum Kit for many many years, and will build a complete example if you pay them enough, so if we're including the American turn key customs - guess these qualify too.
Spondon
OK - so they are a frame maker, but like Harris, Hyde, Krauser, if we're counting the American turn key customs, these must count too.
Moto-Martin
Kit bikes, like Harris and Spondon or Krauser, or the American turn key customs. Made a nice kit around a Honda CBX 'Six' motor, I seem to remember.
Dresda
Dave Degan's Tritons. Has a better claim to being a manufacturer than a lot of special builders, as he got himself registered as a 'manufacturer' at companies house and the HM inland revinue in order to race Tritons as proddy bikes in the sixties
Rickman
Bit like a British Krauser, best remebered for cheap plastic top boxes and big ugly fairings on despatch hounds, but they started out making special frames for dirt bikes, originally around BSA or Triumph twin motors, although they later did versions using BSA B40 singles, as well as diversifying to make racing frames for the track and cafe racers, using a whole veriety of UJM engines in the seventies. BUT; they did offer a complete bike, using Enfield constallation engines, that was something to do with the Clymer Indians, and thier demise. Whether they were built for Clymar to be sold as Indians, but were left with the bikes unsold when Indian went bust, or if Indian's demise was how they got the motors, is something the books never agree on - BUT, they did make a batch of complete bikes, so I reckon they qualify to go in the list!

And possibly a few more; but I suppose you could put Krauser and Bimota into the same catagory, and if you were REALLY pedantic, a whole load of 'classic' marques that used proprietry JAP, MAG, or Villiers engines, and almost ALL of the veteran marques who built machines using minerva or de-deon engines.

Which brings me to:-
Stimpson Scorcher
OK - found this one, seems to be a mini based three wheeler, with two wheels up front. In a quandry now. 'Cos if I accept this as a real 'motorcycle' marque, then the whole gammut has to be opened up to all the three wheelers and trikes, like the Grinnel Scorpion, Bond Bug, Morgan, Berkley, etc etc etc.

So, I dont think it ought to be accepted, simply becouse a line HAS to be drawn somewhere, and the defanition of a 'Motorcycle' is a vehicle with a single track, and it opens up a whole new can of worms and we'l be arguing over all those stupid three wheel rickshaw things they have in the far east and the three wheeled 'pick-ups' and vans they have on the continent, made by Innocenti and people, as well as 'cycle cars' that have four wheels and a motorbike engine, and then we'll be getting REALLY stupid, becouse an R1 has a bigger engine than a smart car, and well, MOST cars have an engine smaller than a BOSS HOSS!

So, got to take the Ner-A-Car out, I reckon

Which all leaves me wit a dilemah over:-
Chevallier
Hm. Not sure. Only reference I can find is to an obscure Frenchman who made a small number of special racing frames for TZ Yams. But as he only made a very tiny number of frames, and not whole bikes, I'm inclined to let his one slip, other wise we might as well include the Shutleworth Snap, a the bike they used in the film had to have been 'made' by some-one, then of course, we'd have to include the carbon fibre framed thing from 'Silver Dream Racer' - of which there were actually five built, and at least one of them DID have a Carbon fibre frame, aparently!

[El_Mick]

jus a couple more

Ambassador
Alcyon
ABC
ACE
Autowheel
Bianchi
Chater Lea early 1900s
Clevland early 1900s
De-Deon 1890s
Dunelt 1920s
Emble 1917
Flying Merkel 1919
Frances Barnet
Garelli
Grigg 1922
Holden 1897
Horex Regina
Humber early 1900s
Itom
Kreidler
Laurin&Klement
Malaguti
McEvoy 1927
Megola 1925
Militaire early 1900s
Monark 1920 1973 using sachs engine
Mondial 1950s
Motosachsochi 1905/1953
New Henley
New Scale 1920s
Norman
P&M 1912/1928 scooter in 1968
Peugot
Pheonix 1904
Pierce 1911
Parkyns Bateman 1881 steam trike
Pope pic but no details
Premier 1911/1912
Quadrant 1901/1924
Rex 1906/1927
Riley 1899/1904
Rumi 1950s
Sertum 1920s/30s
Simplex 1905/1931
Singer 1901/1914
Stafford Pup 1920
Van Veen 1971
Vauxhall 1922
Victoria 1904/1955
Werner 1902
Yale 1912

AJW 1976 (prototype)

[Friar Tuck]

The Mocheck Harrier was Honda 400/4 special in luvverly bright orange! I know coz I had one for 3 thremonths from brand new virtually, until some dumb trucker reversed over it, whilst I had parked it in a layby to go for a jimmy, or a tom tit, or a cuppa or summat! So long ago now, Oh memories! I wish I could!

[Worjorj]

I can't find a reference, but wasn't there a Simpson motorcycle manufacturer in UK?
I believe they made for the army, and it had/has a kick start on the left hand side. (That's army design for you)

[teflon]

I can't find a reference, but wasn't there a Simpson motorcycle manufacturer in UK?
I believe they made for the army, and it had/has a kick start on the left hand side. (That's army design for you)

I've done some checking, becouse I remember a step-thru pedelless moped that was badged a 'Simpson' that I thought was related to the Woolies Tomos, and I thought was Checkoslovakian.

Any way Simson (no P), apparently was an East German maker, who originally built a BMW derived single - I presume pretty much like the 350ish single that BMW themselves made in that era; Ie normal boxer twin with the pots on the side blanked off and one of them stuck vertically on top of the crank case instead. - Reference then sugests that they later specialised in making sub 100cc two strokes, and mopeds; which would mean that they are likely to be the same as the ones I associated with the Tomos.

The Mocheck Harrier was Honda 400/4 special in luvverly bright orange! I know coz I had one for 3 thremonths from brand new

Ah, right; OK then. So the question is, was it a 'marque'? If it was a dealer special, was it a suficient departure from the stock 400/4 to be a different bike, and did they make enough of them to be a propper maker? Should we stick this one in the same bracket as the Chevallier, or Paton? Yes they made 'bikes', but not really enough to be recognised as a 'manufacturer'.

There's a whole ruck of specials makers that could take this off at a real tangent, and they are all in a sort of grey area; I mean, people like Harris; Spondon; Hyde; Egli; Galina; Tigcraft; Moto-Martin etc, could all be considered bike 'makers', but at what point do they become a 'manufacturer'?

Would be inclined to include the more prominant ones, that build kit bikes or turn key specials, for the road, but I dont know, bit of a can of worms.....

SWM Marques under 'S' seem a bit thin, so thought I'd add this one to the list. Italian Trials bike maker from the '80's - I had a model of one as a kid!

[El_Mick]

Simson made 50cc 4 gear 2 stroke "mopeds" ,recognised as 16 yr old legal ,they could reach 50mph+ have got 2 in the garden

[El_Mick]

Royal Ruby around 1918 made in bolton ended 1933
Diamond wolverhampton 1912 /1928
McKenzie Coventry 1921/1924
Dresch 1929 / 1939
Lea Francis 1912 used 31/4 hp jap engine
Motopedale 1933 98cc french

[firebike]

is that a question or a statment ?

:)


thats was a statment


statment

[UKRobKLR650]

Simson made 50cc 4 gear 2 stroke "mopeds" ,recognised as 16 yr old legal ,they could reach 50mph+ have got 2 in the garden
I had a mate killed on one of them. It didnt quite acclerate fast enough and he embeded his head in a Commer van grill. Quite messy by all accounts. We were orrible little fuckers back then cause we thought we could do better and went to the place where he was killed to see who had the quickest bike and see if we would have survived. I suppose life was cheap back then.

[Jimbob]

The Fior was a 500cc GP machine from the eighties campaigned by one Marco Gentile until his untimely death aboard a 500cc Honda GP triple engined Go-kart.

I think it used a Yamaha in-line four TZ motor.

[El_Mick]

Bown autocycles
Dreadnought around 1910 built by Harrold (oily) Carslake
Haleson Steam powered
La Nef 1904
Leon Bolee 1898
Mobobic 1949/1965 Spanish
Radco 1915
Rex 1929 (350 acme)
Reynal autocycles
Sinclair Goddard power pak for cycles

[Borg]

The Fior was a 500cc GP machine from the eighties campaigned by one Marco Gentile until his untimely death aboard a 500cc Honda GP triple engined Go-kart.

I think it used a Yamaha in-line four TZ motor.


what was that 12 cylinder 50cc thing called that was around at the same time

[critch]

confederate motorcycles
wraith-very weird
hellcat- oooooohhhhh ive come over all funny i so soddin want one of them :D

[Jimbob]

The Paton was a 500cc GP machine from the Pattoni family.
It was raced up until the mid-nineties I think.
Phil Read rides a restored 60s version in classic races.