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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Ace Motocross

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Modena, New York

ESTABLISHED 1969

Did you know that ACE MOTOCROSS is the oldest track in the Metropolitan Sports Committee? Its history goes back to the 1940's when the current location was an oiled flat track run by the EXCALIBUR Motorcycle Club.
Ace Motocross is located in Modena, New York.. Ace Motocross, Inc. is a non profit, club run track.

1976 (From Left) Rocky Cassone & (Ace Prez) John Barton

This picture was sent in by the Behrens family. Pictured is "Grandpa Behrens"on an oiled "flat track" at ACE in 1974. He is taking the win on a 175 Penton in this picture.

Don MacShane raced the MSC from the late 1950s till 1969 when he moved overseas (he was 46 at the time).He was #199 AM and then 319 EXP.Running a limited Scrambles sched (he loved Trials and Enduros too) He was always near the top of the points. (Ran out of House of Triumph with Whitey Loud and Fennell). Don passed away in May of 2005.

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Big D Cycle

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Founded by Jack Wilson and Pete Dalio in 1963, Big D Cycle has been setting records and winning races for over 40 years. Originally the shop was located in Oak Cliff, Texas. Jack understood how to build race winning bikes for famous riders such as Gary Nixon, John Minono, Johnny Allen, Mike Kidd, and others.


He built over 60 world speed record setting motorcycles, and countless road racers and dirt trackers. Jack was a no nonsense kind of guy, with a true passion for motorcycles. In 1975 his no BS approach had scared off all his potential riders for Bonneville, so Jack piloted a big bore 1000cc Trident to a 192.34MPH record at the age of 48.

ARIEL SQUARE FOUR

This is just one example how amazing of a man Jack was. Jack Wilson passed away in May of 2000; his contributions to motorcycling world will be admired forever.






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Vintage motorcycle On-line

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Via : Vintage motorcycle On-line

John J. Cerilli has been an active motorcycle enthusiast and rider for over 40 years. He has owned and ridden over 25 motorcycles including: Japanese, Italian, German, British, and of course, four “Big Twin” Harley Davidson’s. He currently rides a 2007 Harley Davidson FLHR 96 cubic inch Road King and a 1983 Moto Guzzi 850 Le Mans-III.


John has ridden throughout the continental United States, Mexico, Canada, and Europe. In 1982, with two other friends, on a 1976 BMW R75/6, he completed the infamous “Great Escape Tour”, covering 22,000 miles of the USA and Canada in 9 months. In 2004-2005, John lived, worked in Aachen, Germany, and rode a 1993 Triumph Trident 900 throughout the beautiful North Rhineland Westphalia region, including Belgium and the Netherlands.



Nolan Woodbury began his motorcycling journey in 1977, when at the age of 17 he purchased from a family friend a 1969 Moto Guzzi V700. Since then, Woodbury has owned a succession of European, Japanese and British-made motorcycles. The youngest member of an active motorcycling family, Nolan followed his father and three older brothers; Neil, Nick and Nathan down a lifelong two-wheeled path.



Born in Cherokee, Iowa, Leo and Joy Woodbury moved Nolan and the other boys from the Midwest to Arizona in January of 1966, where they established Cherokee Tool Company three years later. Nolan grew to appreciate and admire all things mechanical, and just as ex-racers make ideal road test pilots, his background in the machine tool industry gives Nolan a perspective from ‘the other side of the coin’.






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Texas Vintage Racing Club

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Picture courtesy of : Craig Knight

Talking about " serious " guys, you will find here one of the best social vintage motorcycle network on the web.
The pictures, videos and events are simply amazing, so if you're a Texas rider ( ... and not only Texas )please take time to visit this great website by clicking : TVRC you wont be disapointed.

Picture courtesy of : David Maclaskey

The very first TVRC race was October, 1988. Since then it's been Old Dudes, Old Bikes (both getting older!), Old Stories, and New Fun!


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United States Vintage Motocross

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Today i found this website and the only thing i can say is that those guys have the spirit, the only one as they say, " The two primary guiding principles are to keep it simple and to keep it fun. The rules are few and the smiles will be plenty and the best part is you only have to be a member of the human race to participate. Come along for the ride. You'll be glad you did."



The United States Vintage Motocross series is a culmination of all that is good about vintage motocross in America. The sport started about 20 years ago and has continued to grow and evolve. A major component in its growth and health has been the independent regional clubs and organizations that have been able to "define" vintage racing in their own unique styles. It is that "local flavor" that is the essence of this national series.



The USVMX National Series brings together one race from each of the established independent scenes and clubs across America. The race in Texas will be a real "bigger is better" Texan affair, while the gorgeous Great Pacific Northwest will host an event with a natural ambiance that is not to be missed. Throw in Southern California, the Arizona desert, the loamy soil of Missouri or Illinois, Budd's Creek Maryland and Hi Point Raceway and you can quickly see that every venue will be a road trip worth taking.




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