Museum - Fort Smith Arkansas Motorcycle Hall of Fame

Got this little jewel running this week .

"In 1972, Corona Raceway put a bounty on me. If anybody could beat me, they would get a $50 bonus. The entire Yamaha team came out to beat me, but they couldn’t. What happened that day was the Yamaha team manager walked out in front of me on the racetrack. My dad told him to get off the track, and the guy threw a beer at my dad. My dad cold-cocked him. He was lying across the track, and the next time I came around, I had to dodge his body." -Rex Staten

Great article from easy rider on how to put finger grooves on your buck 110

Benelli 1955 -This 1950s engineering jewel is the Benelli Leoncino or, to translate, 'Little Lion'. The dinky 125cc revved to a dizzy 18,000 rpm to make its slightly less dizzy 12bhp. It also featured a four-speed gearbox and nifty valve adjustment (rockers on eccentrics). But how beautifully proportioned are those neatly arranged gears to drive the single overhead camshaft? Work of art. But, weirdly, the same bottom end could carry either a two-stroke or four-stroke top end, giving the manufacturer two bites at the apple. The two-stroke is less pretty...