Today in motorcycle history

     Motorcycle riders finally get their own Virgin Lady.   Dr. Marco Re, a chemist from Castellazzo Bormida, and ...

        Harold 'Frank' Milton Arthur, international Speedway racer and promoter is born in Lismore, New South Wales, Austral...

        On a seemingly cloudless, but cool, Sunday afternoon in Deming, New Mexico, Evel Knievel makes his final jump riding a Norton. ...

            Jim Morrison is arrested during a concert at New Haven, Connecticut. ...

  Gladiator Cycle Company introduces it's first motorcycle.    Gladiator Cycle Company, a French bicycle manufactu...

  Australian Speedway 'Legend' Jack Biggs is killed when he crashes his 500cc JAP machine on Bendigo's (Victoria) Golden Ci...

             Ernest Richard George Earles applies for a patent for his leading link fork.  Filed under "Motor Cycle Front Whee...