The first motorcycles, called Motorrad, came off the production line of the German engineers Hildebrand and Wolfmüller in 1894. In Britain, the first off-road motorcycle event, then called ‘scrambling,’ was run in 1924 at Camberly, Surry. ‘Scrambling’ races became very popular throughout Great Britain, with teams competing from Britain’s motorcycle manufacturers: Rudge, Matchless, the A. [...]
Whether you’ve been riding for years or you’re getting on a bike for the first time, you need to observe certain safety precautions to ensure that you have fun and come out the other end in one piece. This is especially important for those interested in motocross because of the extreme nature of the sport. [...]
Even extreme sports nuts may not have heard of this one. Although the origins of motoball are a bit murky, one thing is certain; it may just be the craziest sport you ever saw. Supposedly originating in France in the 1920s or 30s, motoball rose to some notoriety in Russia during the late 80s, no [...]