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Article requests :
- Origin and disparities in technological advancements & infrastructure compared to automobile safety sector
- Social, economical and political aspects of safety work done by motorcycling organizations
- Greenhorn Enduro
- Motorcycle assassination [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]
- Monobloc brake caliper
- Motorcycle shaft drive (redirect)
- Radial brake caliper[12]
- Sara Liberte photographer and custom motorcycle builder
- Ross Langlitz of Portland, OR, motorcycle racer and designer of the Columbia jacket
- Jack McCormack (motorcycling) first national sales manager for American Honda, then Suzuki, and founder of American Eagle Motorcycles (1967-1970).[13][14][15][16]
- extreme enduro
- Dick O'Brien Harley-Davidson racing team manager 1957-1983[17]
- SC-Project, High profile motorsport exhaust maker, especially MotoGP/Superbike
- Supermoto World Championship
- Supermoto of Nations
- Freestyle Motocross World Championship
The following pages have many redlinks that need articles written:
- List of Grand Prix motorcycle racers
- List of Motocross riders
- List of Grand Prix motorcycles (also include expanding articles already linked)
- List of motorcycle manufacturers
- List of FIM affiliated federations
- List of Speedway Grand Prix riders(also include expanding articles already linked)
- Transatlantic Trophy, UK versus USA short circuit challenge
- Info needed on Armstrong chassis builders (CCM-Armstrong & Rotax-Armstrong).
- Bikes:
  - Aprilia RS 660
  - Bimota Tesi series
  - Butler Petrol-Cycle (Edward Butler (inventor))
  - Captain America (motorcycle) (redirect) (Easy Rider chopper). This could also be expanded into a bio of Clifford Vaughs[18][19][20], see also history of black power movement, SNCC, etc. I'd write Captain America (motorcycle) first, then spawn Clifford Vaughs article later.
  - CRP Energica (an italian electric motorcycle)
  - Curtiss Motorcycle Equipment Co (Glenn Curtiss)
  - Ducati Superleggera (add to Panigale article)
  - Harley-Davidson Model B
  - Honda CB92 Benly 1958
  - Honda Dream 1949. dab page needs work; other pages need work
  - Kawasaki GPZ750 Turbo Verify if it belongs on List of fastest production motorcycles, update navboxes
  - Kawasaki Vulcan 500 LTD 2009 Kawasaki Vulcan 500 LTD motorcycle
  - Kawasaki J 300
  - Kawasaki ZX-10R Verify if it belongs on List of fastest production motorcycles, update navboxes
  - Moto Guzzi MGS-01
  - Moto Guzzi V7/Ambassador/Eldorado/850 Probably redirect all these to a single-page history of this series. Main articles on each one later, if desired.
  - Motorcycle streamliner
  - Norton Scrambler (needs own page not redirect)
  - Pope (motorcycle) company and all models
  - Thomas steam bicycle
  - Vins Duecinquanta
  - Werner Motocyclette
  - Yamaha RD series - specific models or generally as a whole
  - Yamaha YZF-R7 (2022 bike) with statement explaining not to be confused with 1999 YZF-R7
- Motorcycle Clubs and Federations
  - Iron Pigs Motorcycle Club (RE: Seattle police officer Ronald Smith, Sturgis shooting)
  - Vietnam Veterans Motorcycle Club
- Companies related to motorcycling
  - Johnson Motors US Triumph distributor founded by Bill Johnson at the Motorcycle Hall of Fame. Johnson Motors Inc. Clothing is non-notable and unsourced; it should redirect to Johnson Motors.
  - Motus Motorcycles US manufacturer of Motus MST.
  - Arlen Ness Enterprises(Company) US manufacturer of Arlen Ness.
- Motorcycle Magazines
  - Dirt Rider magazine
Cleanup :
- Talk:Motorcycle#Re-sort contents with Motorcycling article Move social/motorcycles+people content to Motorcycling, keep only machine/inanimate content on Motorcycle
- Big-bang firing order
- Template:Honda Offroad Motorcycles and related models such as the CR series. Is model code the clearest nomenclature to use?
- Leslie Graham
- Loh Boon Siew has refs, needs footnotes
- Malaguti
- Matchless need information moved to more appropriate articles
- Montesa Honda
- Snaefell mountain course article or section may need a complete rewrite
- Trail braking Could be a Good Article with very little work.
- Type 97 Motorcycle
- Ulster Grand Prix
- Velocette
- Wire wheels: Wire wheels#On motorcycles says only main article: Motorcycle construction#Wheels, but that is not a main article, it is a subsection. Bicycle wheel is a better article, but none of these 3 actually explains how spokes support the wheel pre-stressed w/compression.
Copyedit :
Expand :
- AGV (helmet manufacturer)
- Alpinestars
- Arai (company)
- Arlen Ness
- Arrow (motorcycle part manufacturer)
- Bell Sports (helmet manufacturer)
- Britten V1000 (High importance)
- Brembo
- BSA Gold Star
- Cagiva GP500
- Cagiva Mito
- CZ Motorcycles
- Cory Ness
- Crocker Motorcycles
- Cycle World
- Derbi
- Derbi GPR125
- DKW
- Endurocross
- Freddie Frith
- Gilera
- Hurt Report
- Indian Prince
- Indian Scout (motorcycle) (High importance)
- Indian Single series. (High importance)
- Jimmie Guthrie
- Ernst Jakob Henne
- Kawasaki GPZ900R
- Kawasaki Z1
- Keihin Corporation
- Kick Start (TV series)
- Kreidler
- List of 2007 motorcycling champions
- Marchesini
- Meguro Manufacturing Company
- Mondial Piega 1000
- Motobécane
- MotoCzysz
- Motorcycle brakes (High importance)
- Motorcyclist (magazine)
- Öhlins
- Ossa
- Ray Pickrell
- Schuberth Helme GmbH
- Shoei
- Showa Corporation
- Snell Memorial Foundation
- Steering damper
- Temple Riders
- Vincent Black Shadow (High importance)
- William A. Davidson
- Yamaha (expand racing history)
- Yamaha FZR1000
- Zach Ness
- Zündapp (motocross & ISDT bikes need expansion)
Merge :
NPOV :
Stubs : * See Category:Motorcycle stubs
Update :
Wikify :
Other : Commons photo cleanup:
- Please identify and categorize: Category:Unidentified motorcycles
The following articles are missing images
- Most stubs require images
Translation requests:
- Italian: Paton
- Italian: Sertum
- Japanese: みづほ自動車製作所
- Japanese: 目黒製作所
- Japanese: 宮田工業
- Italian/Spanish: Benelli BN 302 from this source [21]
- Italian/Deutsch BMW C 400 from this source [22]