Vintage motorcycle photos

Stars such as Tom Cruise, Jay Leno and Josh Hutcherson love their bikes, while FX's "Sons of Anarchy" is getting credit for boosting U.S. sales that were hit hard by the recession.

Riding Vintage article on "Portraits of American Bikers: Life in the 1960s", a collection of photographs taken by Jim Miteff of the Outlaws Motorcycle Club in the late 1960's.

Ann Margaret in 'The Swinger' from: Return of the wild one: How Triumph motorbikes became cool again Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1205710/Return-wild-How-Triumph-motorbikes-cool-again.html#ixzz1tCbljsb0

When you think of motorcycles and the people who ride them, often a specific image comes to mind. Does that image look like any of the motorcyclists pictured below? Women ride motorcycles across the planet. They ride dirt bikes, sport bikes, cruisers, dual sports and trials bikes.

Old Skool

In 1964, Soichiro Honda, owner of Honda Corp., made a very bold, public statement, “Honda will never build a two-stroke motorcycle.” Their reputation was built upon four-stroke engines during the period, and they were at the top of their game. Why fix something when it’s not broken? Fortunately for Honda Corp, a couple of rogue engineers did not hold the same vision as Mr. Honda, and they clandestinely began to work on a two-stroke bike that would change the dirtbike world forever: the CR250…