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Ascot Park Speedway: A Legend in Flat Track Motorcycle Racing

October 25, 2022

Though the last motorcycle crossed its finish line more than three decades ago, Ascot Park Speedway, located in Gardena, California, continues to live on as one of the most incredible flat track motorcycle racing venues in the sport’s history. To say that the track is merely legendary is akin to saying that Elvis Presley could carry a tune sufficiently enough.

Ascot Park Speedway made many careers. If you won at Ascot Park, you became part of the legend. Others became part of Ascot Park’s story for a more tragic reason, as many careers and lives were ended there, as well.

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Black Swan & The Coney Island Motorcycle Show

October 18, 2022

This year at the 2022 Wauseon Nationals AMCA meet there was a special show that had its first year at the event. Wauseon is all about honoring and keeping antique motorcycles alive and a part of vintage culture that has never been fully represented at the meet is the elaborately decorated vintage Harley Davidsons in the Coney Island motorcycle style

2022 AMA Vintage Motorcycle Days Ride In Bike Show

October 11, 2022

The Old Bike Barn crossroads bike show at Ama Vintage Motorcycle Days has been bringing the best of the best classic originals, points restorations, and even groundbreaking custom machines for many years now. Our 2022 show set the bar high as usual with some really great entries. The show got off to a rocky start with a little bit of wild July weather but the rains died down to let everyone enjoy the day and bring their best bikes to the crossroads once again.

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A Perpetual Need for Speed: The History of Kenny Roberts

October 04, 2022

At the age of 12, Kenny Roberts was much more into horseback riding and trotting around on ponies than riding bikes. However, once a friend dared him to hop on a mountain bike and take a spin, the horses went out to pasture.

Not long after his first venture on a bike, Roberts was often caught taking apart small engines around his house and trying to customize them for the bikes he wanted to race around on. It was all uphill from there for Kenny Roberts, and his legendary racing career began.

One of the Initial Best Kept Secrets in Motorcycles: The History of the CR250 Elsinore

September 27, 2022

In 1964, Soichiro Honda, owner of Honda Corp., made a very bold, public statement, “Honda will never build a two-stroke motorcycle.” Their reputation was built upon four-stroke engines during the period, and they were at the top of their game. Why fix something when it’s not broken?

Fortunately for Honda Corp, a couple of rogue engineers did not hold the same vision as Mr. Honda, and they clandestinely began to work on a two-stroke bike that would change the dirtbike world forever: the CR250 Elsinore.