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DREAM BIKES: Kevin and Mark make their top pics from the Mecum Las Vegas Motorcycle Auction
Mecum's 34th Annual Las Vegas Vintage & Antique Motorcycle Auction will feature 2,000 motorcycles! Bid live at the South Point Hotel & Casino or register to bid online or by phone, January 29-February 1, 2025. Check out the auction here: https://www.mecum.com/auctions/las-vegas-motorcycles-2025/
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Technical Editor Kevin Cameron and Editor-in-Chief Mark Hoyer pick their favorite motorcycles from the Mecum Las Vegas motorcycle auction. Actually, Kevin did a great job choosing historically significant designs, as he would! Mark, meanwhile, followed his heart with some choice four-cylinder two-strokes and an overhead-cam Norton, while completely missing the 1929 Harley-Davidson Model D just like his granddad used to own.
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HARLEY vs. TRIUMPH, the CALTECH WIND-TUNNEL, and the ACCIDENTAL birth of 750cc racing
Harley-Davidson's famous racing boss Dick O'Brien was looking in the 1960s to strike back at Triumph and its 500cc twins that were winning Daytona. With the help of star tuners Jerry Branch and Neil Keen, plus some clever work at the Caltech wind-tunnel, Harley came back with a race-winning flat-head 750 AND tested a strange prototype called the Midget that was even faster but is lost to history. Find out about the $60,000 Goodyear tires as Kevin Cameron and Mark Hoyer talk about this amazing story.
Lead-spread image from Cycle World's feature on the "Mysterious Midget" by historian and author Don Emde, Issue 1, 2020.
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Honda's AMAZING Grand Prix Racers of the 1960s—From Scooters to World Championships!
It went from You Meet the Nicest People to You Meet World Champions on a Honda in a very short span of time. In 1959, Honda was selling scooters in the U.S. Ten years later it was the CB750--and Honda's GP racing effort in those intervening years drove this change. Technical Editor Kevin Cameron talks with Editor-in-Chief Mark Hoyer about Honda's meteoric rise in Grand Prix racing during the 1960s and the technical innovations and revolutions that drove this success. Also, why Honda quit GP racing in the late 1960s. Listen to find out!
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GRAND PRIX GLORY: MV Agusta in World Championship racing from 1950s to the rise of the two-stroke!
MV Agusta four-stroke Grand Prix racers howling through their megaphone exhausts are legendary! Cycle World's Kevin Cameron and Mark Hoyer talk about MV from its first little modest little machine built in post-World War II Italy to world-dominating racing motorcycles that continued to compete into the 1970s. Sometimes slow to change and other times rapidly updating designs to stay competitive with upstart Honda's amazing multis of the 1960s, MV was a dominant force in GP racing until two-strokes took over in the world championship.
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The LONG, STRANGE trip for the American Sportbike: All about BUELL!
Rim brakes, under-engine exhausts, extreme frame geometry, Harley-Davidson engines—so much has happened with Erik Buell and the motorcycles he's made, from Buells and its closure by Harley-Davidson in 2009 to reborn EBR and its partnership with Hero Motorcycles only to close again. Technical Editor Kevin Cameron and Editor-in-Chief Mark Hoyer talk about Erik Buell the AMA Expert road racer in the 1970s and his move to build his own two-stroke Formula 750 race bike to take on the mighty Yamaha TZ750 in the 1980s and all the way up to the present day. Buell is responsible for real innovations and ultimately built an American sportbike competitive with the world's best.
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Join Technical Editor Kevin Cameron and Editor-in-Chief Mark Hoyer for the weekly Cycle World podcast for lively conversations about motorcycles and the people who build and ride them. Cameron’s legendary knowledge and ability to describe highly technical subjects in ways that are easy to understand allies with Hoyer’s massive testing background and hands-on work in the CW garage.
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