The Van Veen OCR1000 was a rotary-powered engineering flex and one of the rarest motorcycles ever made. And now, it can be ...
One of just 38 Van Veen OCR1000s ever built, this unrestored unicorn might be the rarest road bike to head to auction in 2026 ...
Like many teenagers in 1980s Australia, I was a willing participant in the Japanese rotary-engined street racer phase that swept the country at the time. Hell, there was even a magazine called Fast ...
The rotary-powered Hercules W-2000 motorcycle is real. I know this, because I saw one with my own eyes at Merks Motor Museum in Nuernberg, Germany, and I'm now fundamentally changed because of it. You ...
The Wankel rotary engine recipe has been tried on motorcycles in the past too, with the Suzuki RE5 being the most known example. As it happened in the car industry, the setup wasn’t efficient enough ...
After the slow-motion trainwreck that was the demise of the British motorcycle industry in the 1970s, only the beleaguered Meriden Co-Op (reduced to practically cottage industry-levels of Triumph ...
The folks behind the SilentHawk ‘stealth’ motorcycle have shared some additional information about their innovative Special Forces machine, which is entering a Phase II trial funded by the Defense ...