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The American Motorcyclist Association ( AMA) is an American nonprofit organization of more than 200,000 motorcyclists that organizes numerous motorcycling activities and campaigns for motorcyclists' legal rights. Its mission statement is "to promote the motorcycling lifestyle and protect the future of motorcycling."
AHRMA (American Historic Racing Motorcycle Association) is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to preserving, restoring and competing on historic motorcycles. With over 3000 members, AHRMA is the leading vintage motorcycle racing group in North America and one of the largest in the world. The association's enthusiastic membership reflects ...
Originally known as the Confederates, this outlaw OMCG has 70-something chapters worldwide and is the largest in Australia. Rebels. 1968. Red Deer, Alberta, Canada. One of the four dominant outlaw motorcycle clubs in Alberta prior to 1997. [ 142] Red Devils Motorcycle Club. c. 2001. Karlstad, Värmland, Sweden.
J.C. "Pappy" Hoel founded the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in 1938. It's the world's most successful motorcycle rally, drawing 500,000+ annually to remote South Dakota.
American Flat Track is an American motorcycle racing series. [ 1] The racing series, founded and sanctioned by the American Motorcyclist Association (AMA) in 1954, originally encompassed five distinct forms of competitions including mile dirt track races, half-mile, short-track, TT steeplechase and road races. [ 2][ 3] The championship was the ...
United States, Canada and Europe. Membership. 11,000. Website. antiquemotorcycle.org. The Antique Motorcycle Club of America ( AMCA) was founded in 1954 in New England and is now one of the largest organizations of antique motorcycle enthusiasts in the world, with membership of over 12,000 in the United States, Australia, Canada, Europe and Japan.
The 1913 motorcycle championship races were moved to a dirt track because dirt was safer. [30] The national organization overseeing motorcycle racing banned all competitions on board tracks shorter than 1-mile (1.6 km) in 1919. [31] One by one, the manufacturers withdrew their support due to the negative publicity. [27]
Jay Springsteen. Jay Springsteen (born April 15, 1957 in Flint, Michigan) is an American former professional motorcycle dirt track racer. He began his professional racing career in 1975 by winning the American Motorcyclist Association (AMA) Rookie of the Year award. As a member of the Harley-Davidson factory race team, he went on to win three ...