Welcome to WikiProject Motorcycling We are a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of Motorcycling. This is a child project of WikiProject Transport (For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject and the Guide to WikiProjects). Scope of the WikiProject The Motorcycling WikiProject concerns the creation, development, and organisation of all Wikipedia's articles about motorcycles and motorcycling (including biographies) of famous motorcyclists and motorcycling pioneers.
Goals - Get this project 'refreshed' in 2009
- Improve the accuracy and quality of all motorcycling articles
- Develop the collection of motorcycling images on Wikimedia Commons
- To finally sort out the Motorcycle and Motorcycling articles
Members Please add your name to the end of the list and indicate any areas of particular interest. (If you leave this project, or retire from Wikipedia, please move your name to the retired list). Make visible or invisible by clicking Show or Hide, respectively.
[edit] List of members Please feel free to add yourself here, at the end of the list, and indicate any areas of particular interest.
If you leave this project, or retire from Wikipedia, please move your name to the retired list below. Thanks. - Thermos (Motorcycle racing, road racing riding technique, motorcycle safety, Ducatis)
- Ww2censor (British motorcycle manufacturers, motorcycle racing, motorcycle racers)
- Seasalt (motorcycle manufacturers, motorcycle engineers and designers)
- izaakb (Italian motorcycles, motorcycle racing)
- Orsoni (Grand Prix motorcycle racing, motocross)
- Pi3832 (General technical info, '80s Honda V4s)
- Pickle (MX, Enduro, & Trials, off road in general, the UK, governing bodies/sports poltics, etc)
- Prolog (Enduro, Grand Prix motorcycle racing)
- Finbar Canavan (Canadian stuff relating to two wheels, the bikes I ride, off-road, Ducati)
- Trident13 (almost anything on 2wheels which touches the UK/Europe)
- Readro (Motorcycle racing, history of motorcycle racing)
- KTM Jared 683 (U.S. GNCCs, Enduros, Hare Scrambles, MX and KTM bikes)
- Hennesse (Henderson motorcycles)
- Roguegeek (free use image contributions, general make/model info w/ emphasis on sport bikes, Grand Prix racing info)
- JZH (future-classic Honda motorcycles, principally V4s; [1])
- Brianhe (misc, categorization)
- BMan1113VR (Sport bikes, Standards, vintage, cafe, check user page for pictures for projects)
- Willirennen, (motorcycle sport in Japan)
- Jsydave (Speedway Grand Prix and Grand Prix racing)
- Agljones (Isle of Man TT and Manx Grand Prix)
- Bennyboyz3000 (Motocross and off-road motorbiking)
- Timetrial (MotoGP, World Superbike, Isle of Man TT, Motorcycle Racers - professional writer with images available )
- AndrewDressel (Bike mechanic, theoretical and applied. Ride a bright yellow Moto Guzzi California Special)
- Laugh! Haven't done much here. If you need some help, you can try me though.
- Stéphane Thibault (Interwiki linking, Motorcycle TV shows)
- —Malber (talk • contribs) 18:19, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
- DenkMit (Interests mainly in pure road racing, both in Ireland and the Isle of Man. Photographer and reporter capable of supplying images)
- Old Guard (high-end motorcycles, especially American/sportbikes)
- ZiggySpeed (Japanese Production Bikes)
- Mmoyer (American biker trash with two Harleys; I am active in maintaining the Motorcycle club article)
- Number128 (All road racing, exotic and common sports bikes)
- Motacilla (Nortons and other old Brits. Old MZ and other central Europeans. Meguro and other 1930's-1950's Japanese. All Wankel-engined motorcycles.)
- Evb-wiki (2001 HD Sportster Hugger; 2002 HD Heritage Softail Classic)
- ChristopherMagoo (Scooters, typically Vespa, Lambretta, modern and vintage scooters of all types, added Harley Topper)
- Telempe (Sport touring bikes, organizations and Hondas)
- Enduro446 (Enduro Riding and Hare&Hounds Also Mechanical engineering of Enduro/Motocross bikes))
- Barang (Motocross and Enduro; photographer)
- Motorrad-67 (Shaft-driven motorcycles, BMWs, and vintage motorcycles; photography)
- Rally180 (Scooter mechanic. Vintage and modern scooters)
- Cs-wolves (anything with two wheels)
- Bumper12 (single cylinder/low displacement sportsbikes, motocycle safety equipment)
- Bdegroodt - Euro motorcycles (current and late 20th century) MotoGP, World Superbike
- Micky750k - Suzuki GSX-R related bikes, GSX-R 'fighters and Aprilia RS250s.
- Chris Ssk - World Superbike, World Supersport, MotoGP
- Hammer1980 - Speedway (historic, current British)
- retrodouggy - BMW K1, Suzuki GSXR, Pan European, Isle of Man TT, Advanced Motorcycling, Roadcraft, Instruction, Emergency Volunteer Service Rider, Institute of Advanced Motorists
- Humbleradio - Honda Motorcycles ( Super Cub Street) Tokyo, Japan. Personal bike featured on Honda website. Interest in Vintage Motorcycles as well - Indian, Ducatti, Triumph, Ariel, Royal Enfield. Interest in motorcycle media.
- Abhi Kalyan - Custom building Motorcycles, Owned Suzuki Shogun 104 cc,Yamaha 100/350 cc. Worked on most Indian Two wheelers, Blueprinting, CAD designing and Conversion
- Nathan Lee - Triumph motorcycles, anything else I can contribute to
- War - Harley-Davidson motorcycles, motorcycle clubs and culture.
- Peterh7 - Speedway (New Zealand historic)
- Nimbus227 - Yamaha RD two-strokes, Meriden Triumphs, general editing.
- McCart42
- TimTay - British Wikipedian who rides a BMW R1150GS, Honda CX500 sidecar outfit and emergency services Yamaha FJR1300 and ST1300 Pan European
- Herbwag - AMF and earlier Harley-D history plus some other early American makes.
- Ytak171- Yamaha Production racers. Ducati Supermono MV Agusta Motorcycles
- TheUnique - Italian motorcycles (specially Ducati), motorcycle racing (MotoGP and SBK)
- Wcwagner - Ducati STx Sport Touring motorcycles, specifically the ST3 variant.
- Thruxton - Rocket III (Sorting out all the British bike articles - see Category:British motorcycles and Category:British motorcycle pioneers)
- st1300a4 - ST1300A4 and Motorcycle Safety Advisor
- Todd Vierling - Unaffiliated safety gear advocate
- Astonzia - Touring bikes, Dual Purpose bikes
- Scooternik - Classic Italian scooters, mainly Vespa (P range fanatic!) and Lambretta, also founder of scooterboy-world, freelance scooter related jouranlist.
- RashersTierney - BMW F 650 GS '02 Slightly lapsed contributor to The Chain Gang, the best source on anything related to 'The Bavarian Thumper'.
- Waterden - Speedway
- Davidmill - Motorcyclist in Scotland.
- Trakesht- Currently working on Indian motorcycles
- Nash - Touring, Grand Prix motorcycle racing, old and prototype motorcycle
- Paste- 1970-1989 era large bikes.
- Tedder
- Frogger_nude- 1970's small capacity road race bikes, bucket racing, motorcycle racing
- Lg king - Vintage Japanese motorcycles, vintage racing
- H2RICK- Kawasaki and Suzuki two stroke street and offroad bikes from the 1960s and 1970s. Restorer and collector.
- Stuart.midgley - Riding for five years, on an Aprilia SR50 Factory Di-Tech scooter and bikes that I've hired on holidays.
- segiterrus - Yamaha Racing
- Dbratland 2006 Ducati Sport1000, 2004 Kawasaki Ninja 250, 2004 Yamaha Vino 125, and a 1965 Ducati 125 Bronco.
- Theblacksmith99 - Speedway
- Hbmallin - Electric_motorcycles_and_scooters
- Biker Biker - BMW Fan Boy but more importantly a lover of anything that has less than four wheels.
- Officially Mr X (talk) - (MotoGP, World Superbike, British Superbike, Supersport, Speedway seasons)
- Crazy Biker - Yamaha Fan. Hardcore biker, live them like 10 hours a day. Yamaha FZ1, FZ6, TVS Suzuki Victor, Apache
- Moto Master
- Pack44 Collector/rider of 60s, 70s and 80s Japanese, UK and Euro sport bikes (too many!) Speak fluent Japanese and avid researcher/curator.
- saltysailor - training, Metro 50, BMW R50
- DougJustDoug - Year 'round sport-tourer and commuter in the USA; racing fan; moto-blogger; member of numerous motorcycle orgs and communities; professional researcher.
Special Interest Groups Announcements - Promoting the project
 | This article is within the scope of WikiProject Motorcycling, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Motorcycling on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks. | |  ??? | This article has not yet received a rating on the project's quality scale. | | ??? | This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale. | | |  | This user is a member of WikiProject Motorcycling. | | [edit] Guidelines As part of the Motorcycling WikProject we should make sure that: - Facts in articles are referenced using in line citations
- Appropriate Categories are added
- The Template:Infobox Motorcycle should be added to motorcycle articles and completed in as much detail as possible
- Images should be linked from the Commons
- Motorcycle manufacturing companies should have the Template:Infobox Company added
[edit] Open tasks To do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Motorcycling: Please help with articles on this list or add the names of needed articles. This list is quite large so please make visible or invisible by clicking Show or Hide, respectively.
| Here are some tasks you can do: - Requests: The following pages have many redlinks that need articles written: The following are redlink pages that deserve your attention:
- Info needed on Armstrong chassis builders (CCM-Armstrong & Rotax-Armstrong).
- Bikes:
- Motorcycle Federations
- Companies/groups/org related to motorcycling
- Copyedit:
- Wikify:
- Merge:
- Cleanup:
* Honda Magna painful to the eyes, may need new articles for each model
- Expand:
- Stubs:
- Update:
- NPOV:
- Other:
The following articles are missing images
Translation requests:
| [edit] User boxes Add any of the following to your User page to show membership of the project, or your love of motorcycles: | WikiProject Motorcycling | | This user is a member of the Motorcycling WikiProject, a WikiProject which aims to develop and expand Wikipedia's coverage of motorcycles and motorcycling. Please feel free to join us. |  |  | I am a member of the Motorcycling WikiProject, a WikiProject which aims to develop and expand Wikipedia's coverage of motorcycles and motorcycling. Please feel free to join us. | | | This user is a member of WikiProject Motorcycling. |  | This user is a member of
WikiProject Motorcycling. | | | | Generic motorcycle | | | BMW | | | Ducati | |
[edit] Collaboration and review - Collaboration of the century?
- Peer review
- Assessment department
- Popular pages
[edit] Templates - Short motorcycle articles should be marked with this {{Motorcycle-stub}} stub template.
- All motorcycle related talk pages should have this template added {{Motorcycling}}.
- Members can use this tag {{Motorcycle member}} on their user page or talk page.
- Members may choose to use a Major and Notable motorcycle marque infobox in an article.
[edit] Categories Please use one of the following categories when writing a motorcycle related article, but check if a deeper subcategory would be more appropriate.
There are more categories and subcategories here but those listed below are the main ones. [edit] Resources | Frequently used magazines, formatted | | - American Motorcyclist (Westerville, Ohio: American Motorcyclist Association), ISSN 0277-9358
- Cycle World (Newport Beach, California: Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S.), ISSN 0011-4286
- Dealernews (Irvine, California: Advanstar Communications), ISSN 0893-2522
- Motorcycle.Com
- Motorcycle Consumer News (Irvine, California: Aviation News Corp), ISSN 1067-8697 1073-9408, 1067-8697
- Motorcycle Daily
- Motorcycle News
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- Motorcyclist (Source Interlink Media), ISSN 0027-2205
- Sport Rider (Los Angeles, California: Source Interlink Media), ISSN 1065-7649
- Ultimate MotorCycling (Moorpark, California: Coram Publishing), ISSN 1945-9580, http://www.ultimatemotorcycling.com/
| | | Motorcycle books: formatted citations | | - Brown, Roland; McDiarmid, Mac (2000), The Ultimate Motorcycle Encyclopedia: Harley-Davidson, Ducati, Triumph, Honda, Kawasaki and All the Great Marques, Anness Publishing, ISBN 1840388986, http://books.google.com/books?id=2SWQAAAACAAJ
- Brown, Roland (2004), History of the Motorcycle: From the first motorized bicycles to the powerful and sophisticated superbikes of today, Bath, UK: Parragon Publishing, ISBN 1405439521, http://books.google.com/books?id=Od6JNwAACAAJ
- Brown, Roland (2005), The ultimate history of fast motorcycles, Parragon, ISBN 1405454660
- Cameron, Kevin (1998), Sportbike Performance Handbook, Cyclepro Series, Motorbooks Workshop / MPI Pub. Co., ISBN 0760302294, http://books.google.com/books?id=7sgnQAAACAAJ
- Cocco, Gaetano (2004), Motorcycle Design and Technology, MotorBooks/MBI Publishing Company, pp. 52-53, ISBN 0760319901, http://books.google.com/books?id=Ydk0bgq2_3YC&pg=PA52
- Coombs, Matthew; Haynes, John; Shoemark, Pete (2002), Motorcycle Basics (2nd ed.), Haynes, ISBN 185960515X
- de Cet, Mirco (2001), The Complete Encyclopedia of Classic Motorcycles: informative text with over 750 color photographs (3rd ed.), Rebo, ISBN 903661497X, http://books.google.com/books?id=ki9XAAAACAAJ
- de Cet, Mirco (2002), The illustrated directory of motorcycles, MotorBooks/MBI Publishing Company, ISBN 0760314179, http://books.google.com/books?id=wNzyIcw2vxoC
- Duglin Kennedy, Shirley (2005), The Savvy Guide to Motorcycles, Indy Tech Publishing, ISBN 0790613166, http://books.google.com/books?id=kEX7Ncd3hO4C
- Falloon, Ian (2004), Standard Catalog of Ducati Motorcycles 1946-2005, Iola, WI: KP Books, pp. 11-12, ISBN 0873497147, http://books.google.com/books?id=kDcFAAAACAAJ
- Falloon, Ian; Taglioni, Fabio (FRW) (2006), The Ducati Story: Racing and Production Models from 1945 to Present Day (4th ed.), Haynes, ISBN 1844253228, http://books.google.com/books?id=6nE3HAAACAAJ
- Holmstrom, Darwin (2001), The Complete Idiot's Guide to Motorcycles (2nd ed.), Alpha Books, ISBN 0028642589, http://books.google.com/books?id=p9EyBoTaKy0C
- Hough, Richard Alexander; Setright, L.J.K. (1966), A history of the world's motorcycles, New York: Harper & Row, LCCN 66018583
- Setright, L.J.K. (1979), The Guinness book of motorcycling facts and feats, Guinness Superlatives, ISBN 0851122000
- Hough, David L. (2000), Proficient Motorcycling: The Ultimate Guide to Riding Well (2nd ed.), USA: BowTie Press, ISBN 1889540536, http://books.google.com/books?id=yeAIAIxS-cgC
- Hough, David L. (2003), More Proficient Motorcycling: The Ultimate Guide to Riding Well (2nd ed.), USA: BowTie Press, ISBN 1931993033, http://books.google.com/books?id=Z51FAQAACAAJ
- Joans, Barbara (2001), Bike Lust, Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, ISBN 0299173542, http://books.google.com/books?id=QEeaBjCKJvkC
- Ker, Rod (2007), Classic Japanese Motorcycle Guide, Sparkford, UK: Haynes Publishing, ISBN 184425335X
- Krens, Thomas; Drutt, Matthew, eds. (1998), The Art of the Motorcycle, Harry N. Abrams, ISBN 0810969122, http://books.google.com/books?id=J8pIJQAACAAJ
- Krens, Thomas; Guggenheim Museum Staff (2003), The Art of the Motorcycle, Harry N. Abrams, ISBN 0810969122, http://books.google.com/books?id=unkLAAAACAAJ
- Kresnak, Bill (2008), Motorcycling for Dummies, For Dummies, ISBN 0470245875, http://books.google.com/books?id=ZPgrJByqp4wC
- Osgerby, Bill (2005), Biker: Truth and Myth: How the Original Cowboy of the Road Became the Easy Rider of the Silver Screen, Globe Pequot, ISBN 1592288413, http://books.google.com/books?id=CqR1fG8x6ToC
- Packer, Jeremy (2008), Mobility without mayhem: safety, cars, and citizenship, Duke University Press, ISBN 0822339633, http://books.google.com/books?id=F0P8kvrs9iEC
- Pagé, Victor Wilfred (1924, 2004 reprint), Early Motorcycles: Construction, Operation and Repair, Dover Publications, ISBN 0486436713
- Harley-Davidson and philosophy: full-throttle Aristotle; Volume 18 of Popular culture and philosophy, Open Court Publishing, 2006, ISBN 081269595X, http://books.google.com/books?id=NrsfTreAPfwC
- Setright, L.J.K. (1979), The Guinness book of motorcycling facts and feats, Guinness Superlatives, ISBN 0851122000
- Stermer, Bill (2006), Streetbikes: Everything You Need to Know, MotorBooks/MBI Publishing Company, ISBN 0760323623, http://books.google.com/books?id=NMokiWY6E00C
- Thompson, Jon F.; Bonnello, Joe (1998), Ducati, MotorBooks/MBI Publishing Company, ISBN 0760303894, http://books.google.com/books?id=MtkGWwy13HMC&pg=PA80
- Walker, Mick (1997), Ducati Singles: All Two-And Four-Stroke Single-Cylinder Motorcycles, Including Mototrans - 1945 Onwards (2nd ed.), London: Osprey Pub Co, pp. 13-15,162, ISBN 1855327171, http://books.google.com/books?id=sRaCNAAACAAJ
- Walker, Mick (2002), Illustrated Ducati Buyer's Guide (3rd ed.), MotorBooks/MBI Publishing Company, ISBN 0760313091, http://books.google.com/books?id=PJ8ht7O8ccQC
- Walker, Mick (2003), Japanese Production Racing Motorcycles, Redline Books, ISBN 0954435702, http://books.google.com/books?id=TB2v4CR7K4kC&pg=RA1-PA134
- Walker, Mick (2006), Motorcycle: Evolution, Design, Passion, JHU Press, ISBN 0801885302, http://books.google.com/books?id=AHSlknpjrgAC
- Wallis, Michael; Clark, Marian (2004), Hogs on 66: Best Feed and Hangouts for Road Trips on Route 66, Council Oak Books, ISBN 1571781404, http://books.google.com/books?id=4b_qJyw-ZX8C
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