Trends come and go, but tradition is everlasting, and you’d be surprised just how long scrambler motorcycles have been around. The term harkens back to the earliest days of motorcycle racing when competition was an A-to-B affair, and there were too few paved roads to limit competition to tarmac only—a scramble, as they’d come to be…
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The American International Motorcycle Expo might not be the first place you’d expect to find us, as the event has a whole lot more to do with what’s on dealer floors than the custom scene. That’s not the whole story though, because besides rubbing elbows with industry partners and parts manufacturers, we also had a…
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Trends come and go, but tradition is everlasting, and you’d be surprised just how long scrambler motorcycles have been around. The term harkens back to the earliest days of motorcycle racing when competition was an A-to-B affair, and there were too few paved roads to limit competition to tarmac only—a scramble, as they’d come to…
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In 1937 Alfonso Marini ventured off from his partner, Mario Mazzetti and the MM brand, to start his own motorcycle company. Morini had been building and repairing bikes in Northern Italy since he was a teen and spent time in the 8th Motorcycles Unit stationed in Padova, Italy during World War I. Over the course…
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Pepo Rosell’s work is easy to spot, and we mean that as a compliment. If it looks fast, has a killer livery…
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Just outside Barcelona is a small workshop called Ad Hoc Cafe Racers with a story we can all relate to. It’s run…
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In Italian, “Settebello” is idiom for “seven of diamonds”. And this little 175cc Moto Morini is a real diamond, packing a surprising…
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I get a lot of requests to feature certain classic motorcycles, and the same bikes tend to pop up. Top of the…
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One of the saddest stories of recent times is the demise of Moto Morini. The Scrambler remains one of my all-time favorite…
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