Today in motorcycle history

          With seemingly dirt in his bones, one of the greatest motocross racers to ever come out of the state of California, Rick Joh...

        Motorcycle record holder Siddhartha Sankar Saikia is born in Jorhat, Assam, India.   An Indian Evel Knievel?  Jo...

     New Zealander Russell Wright sets a new World Land Speed Record of 184.83 mph at Swannanoa, Canterbury, New Zealand, straddl...

        Yamaha Motor Co. Ltd is founded.     Genichi Kawakami, then president of Nippon Gakki, develops the first Ya...

           The Art of the Motorcycle exhibit opens at the Solomon R.Guggenheim Museum in New York City.   The Art o...

                        The BSA Club of Perth, Australia, votes to suspend club activities due to the shortage of available fu...

  Evel Knievel, still feeling the results of a compressed vertebrae and broken knuckles suffered at Lakewood Speedway in A...