• Greeves Motorcycles was a British motorcycle manufacturer founded by Bert Greeves which produced a range of road machines, and later competition mounts...
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  • lists the motorcycles produced by the British motorcycle manufacturer Greeves Motorcycles Ltd. List of Ariel motorcycles List of BSA motorcycles List of...
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  • Look up Greeves or greeves in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Greeves may refer to: Greeves (motorcycles), British motorcycle manufacturer Greeves (surname)...
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  • Bert Greeves MBE (born Oscar Bertram Greeves, 5 June 1906 – 15 July 1993) was a British engineer who founded Invacar Ltd in 1942 and Greeves motor cycles...
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    programme The NHS: A People's History with Alex Brooker. Bath chair Greeves Motorcycles Invalid carriage SMZ cyclecar (a similar vehicles in the USSR) List...
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  • Competition Motorcycles Hesketh Motorcycles HRD Motorcycles Métisse Norton Scomadi Triumph Vincent Motorcycles Wasp Motorcycles Alligator ARCH Motorcycle Boss...
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    are supported through its external skin. On motorcycles they are used almost exclusively on racing motorcycles. French industrialist and engineer Georges...
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    Anzani (category Motorcycle engine manufacturers)
    motorcycle engines in some models. British Anzani's best known products were motorcycle, lawnmower and outboard engines. Cotton, Tandon and Greeves motorcycles...
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  • motocross championships in 1960 and 1961 riding two-stroke engined Greeves motorcycles. The European championship was considered to be the world championship...
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    power the motorcycle. List of motorcycles by type of engine Wikimedia Commons has media related to Diesel motorcycles. "Sommer - Motorradmanufaktur -"...
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    two-stroke motorcycles came into their own. Companies such as Husqvarna from Sweden, CZ from the former Czechoslovakia, Bultaco from Spain and Greeves from...
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    Reg Pridmore (category English motorcycle racers)
    Championship riding a BMW motorcycle at a time when BMWs were considered to be outdated touring motorcycles rather than proper racing motorcycles. In 2002, he was...
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    a tower and spire. In 1951 the parish had a population of 6 482. Greeves motorcycles were produced in a purpose-built factory at Thundersley from 1953...
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    with a Greeves by Chas Mortimer. He won the 250 cc class at the Stars of Tomorrow meeting at Mallory Park, England on 3 July 1966 riding a Greeves. He first...
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  • as seen in projects such as the Bimota Tesi, and Vyrus motorcycles. Scott produced a motorcycle with telescopic forks in 1908, and would continue to use...
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    Royal Enfield (England) (category Defunct motorcycle manufacturers of the United Kingdom)
    Enfield Cycle Company Limited of Redditch, Worcestershire, England, sold motorcycles, bicycles, lawnmowers and stationary engines which it manufactured. Enfield...
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    internationally in Grand Prix road racing. In 1963, Pesonen loaned his Greeves motorcycle to Mikkola so that he could enter his first race in which he crashed...
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    Swingarm (category Motorcycle suspension technology)
    each direction was against coiled springs. Some manufacturers, such as Greeves, used swingarm designs for the front forks, which were more robust than...
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    that their motorcycle development would stop and that he should seek employment elsewhere. After he had arranged a test ride with the Greeves factory, he...
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    Peter Williams (motorcyclist) (category British motorcycle racers)
    but scored a third place in Lightweight 250 cc category riding an Orpin Greeves Silverstone. Williams entered selected Grand Prix races from 1966. He also...
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    to riding a Greeves and, won six races to finish second in the 250cc Belgian motocross national championship. He rode the 250cc Greeves to five victories...
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    John Banks (motorcyclist) (category Motorcycle trials riders)
    a successful builder from Bury St Edmunds. His first motorcycle was a Greeves trials motorcycle that he bought from Dave Bickers, the 1960 and 1961 European...
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  • Eldon, journalist (born 1970); murdered in Somalia 15 July – Bert Greeves, motorcycle pioneer (born 1906) 18 July – Michael Winstanley, Baron Winstanley...
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  • Chas Mortimer (category British motorcycle racers)
    consisting of RDS Greeves 250s, a Bultaco 125 and an Aermacchi 350. He competed for most of his career as a privateer riding Yamaha motorcycles. When Mortimer...
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    After a one-year absence from competition, Goss returned riding a 197 cc Greeves Hawkstone provided by the factory distributor for the West Country of England...
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  • Norman Hossack (category British motorcycle designers)
    Hossack learned to ride motorcycles at a young age on the uncluttered roads of Rhodesia. His first bikes were a BSA Bantam, a Greeves scrambler and a Ducati...
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    finish in the other classes and again in the 1965 races when riding a 250cc Greeves with 350 and 500 Nortons. Cooper was famously known as 'Mooneyes'. He initially...
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    Championship and FIM X-Trial World Championship are the most prestigious motorcycle trials tournaments of the world, organised by the Fédération Internationale...
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  • Don Smith (motorcyclist) (category British motorcycle racers)
    on Franke, taking his factory Greeves to wins in Switzerland and Belgium and taking back the title. Smith left the Greeves camp at the end of 1967 and switched...
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    Villiers 36A/37A 246 cc engine with iron barrel or at a higher cost, a Greeves light-alloy cylinder, and a Miller magneto. The frames were easily distinguishable...
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