Motorcycle manufacturers - past & present

[RodB]

Hey all,

 

Somebody I worked with once told me that there was a motorcycle manufacturer (past or present) representing every letter of the alphabet

Lets see if it's true.

Example: B should be super easy = BMW.

There may be more than one manufacturer per letter. We can always come back to a letter to add another manufacturer.

 

Let me start with:

A = Aprilia

 

[Roadwolf]

Bimota...

 

BMW is too easy

[chrisd]

Crocker

[RodB]

Here's another B = Benelli

[racer7]

D Douglas or Ducati

E Excelsior (several)or Enfield

F Fisher

G Gilera

H- duh....

 

Someone else's turn

[Mrs. Caddis]

Indian

[RodB]

...and another B = Buell

[RodB]

H is difficult, but here's one = Hyosung

[StuGotz]

J

 

 

Jawa

 

 

MB>

[Motodan]

Here ya go....a bunch.

 

http://neworleanswebsites.com/cat/au/mm/mm.html

[notacop]

Motodan has successfully put an appropriate end to this thread.

Well done. I only offer this as Kudos.

[Paul Mihalka]

The list has many letters, bu important brands come to mind:

M Matchless

N Nimbus - NSU

P Pannonia (important to me )

V Velocette

Z Zündapp

[philbytx]

Motodan's link is a very incomplete list!

I reckon Paul and I could come up with way more, provided our synapses were firing nicely

 

Immediately out of the memory banks came :

Douglas

Francis Barnett

James

Rudge

as I had ridden bikes of all four marques.

 

However, check out THIS LIST of purely BRITISH motorycle manufacturers. Scary innit....

[RodB]

Here ya go....a bunch.

 

http://neworleanswebsites.com/cat/au/mm/mm.html

 

Thank you, why bother exercising a few brain cells when we have Google.

What was I thinking?

[4wheeldog]

H is difficult, but here's one = Hyosung

 

What is so difficult about Horex, that fine old German brand, soon to be made by VW?

[Paul Mihalka]

Another H - Horex

 

Some classics: B - Brough Superior, V - Vincent

[Paul Mihalka]

Some more good British names:

A AJS

B BSA

M Matchless

N Norton

P Panther

S Scott

 

( No Google used)

[Green RT]

Unless I missed them, we are still lacking entries for "I" and "Q".

[bayoubengal]

Indian?

[bayoubengal]

Quantya

 

Lifted from bikes.com

 

Electric.

[Jerry Johnston]

M for Motobeta an Italian 2 stroke. I bought one in the late 60's. Didn't keep it long.

[beemerman2k]

No one remembers Husquavarna? Spelling might be off. Anyone remember the Van Veen rotary engine motorcycle?

[EffBee]

Demm (Eye-talian). Their 4-stroke 50cc was the first bike I ever rode that you had to shift (even if it was a handgrip shifter). We owned one for about a year.

[Norm 88]

Ace

Cleveland

Dayton

Flying Merkel

Henderson

[BerndM]

Another couple of "H"s

 

HARLEY-Davidson (Duh)

Hodaka

[bayoubengal]

How about the Steen or the Gemini?