In History

The Trailblazers held its 71st annual banquet on Saturday, April 11th at the Carson Center in Carson, CA. The club has a long and rich history of motorcycling in Southern California, dating as far back as 1936 when A.F. Van Order put out the call for racers of the early boardtrack racing era to get […]

    As one of England’s oldest motorcycle companies, BSA grew out of a consortium of firearms manufacturers who first expanded into bicycles, then into the fledgling “motor bicycle” market by fitting a stronger frame with a Belgian-made Minerva engine.            That was 1905. By 1910 Birmingham Small Arms was building

    They called him “Wild Bill” and he was one of the best to race the 2nd generation American resurgence of those wild 500cc, alcohol powered, brakeless beasts we call Speedway Motorcycles.                                    

  For many years, the local Sturgis newspaper (Meade County Times) put out a special edition newspaper after each Sturgis Motorcycle Rally.  Looking through the archives at the Sturgis Motorcycle Museum & Hall of Fame, we found a stack of these special editions from various years starting in 1984.  Each edition was a full newspaper

    The Indian Papoose motor scooter was developed after World War II and was based on an earlier motor scooter called the Welbike, which was actually built for the British Army.  The Welbikes were designed to fit into a standard parachute airdrop container 51 inches long, 15 inches high, and 12 inches wide.   

It has become something of lore, something to talk about, something that still today is remembered by many. It was the day the Hells Angels came to Porterville. But, it is not that the Hells Angels converged on the town of only 8,000 residents at the time. It is that Porterville stood up to the

People ride for all sorts of reasons – transportation, relaxation, just pure fun. It’s probably been true to some extent from the advent of motorcycling. But you have to imagine that in 1914 and 1915, it must have been more about transportation and maybe about fun than it was about relaxation. Ah, but there was

  Sturgis Motorcycle Museum and Hall of Fame recently acquired another treasure to add to its diverse collection of motorcycles.       Dave Barr traveled from his home in Bodfish, California with his children, Luke and Jillian, to enjoy a road trip while transporting his 1996 Harley-Davidson Sportster 883 to Sturgis, SD.     In

I’ve known Bob Clift for a decade and we recently hung out at his Las Vegas home. He was the friend of a friend who worked Las Vegas casinos in sales as a VP. He’s perfect for the sales world, good-looking, sharp-witted, and a fast talker. But there’s another grease-stained edge to Nevada Bob, and

  When you’re looking for a motorcycle today, you will most likely take yourself off to one or more local motorcycle dealers, look at what they have on the showroom floor, maybe take one or two for a test ride, then make your purchase. Today, part of the process might be doing a little initial