AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame
Where Heroes Live On
Inducted 1999
One of America's top motorcycle race promoters.
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 1999
World Road Racing Champion
1974 Daytona 200 Winner
Categories :
RoadRacing
Inducted 1999
Winner of four AMA Grand Nationals
Winner of 1981 Suzuka eight-hour endurance race.
Categories :
Dirt-Track
RoadRacing
Inducted 1999
1950s World Speed Record Holder
Categories :
Specialty Competition
Inducted 2003
Promoted the Houston Astrodome dirt track races that for many years were the kickoff for the AMA racing season.
Pioneer of AMA Supercross events including Houston Astrodome and Pontiac Silverdome.
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 1998
Western states distributor for Indian and BSA.
Sponsored many top AMA professional racers.
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 1998
1955 AMA Grand National Champion.
1955, '59, '60 Daytona 200 Winner.
Categories :
Dirt-Track
RoadRacing
Inducted 1999
AMA National Racer, Tuner, Dealer, Sponsor
Categories :
Dirt-Track
RoadRacing
Inducted 1998
1940s AMA National Dirt Track Racing Champion
Categories :
Dirt-Track
Inducted 1998
AMA National Hillclimb Champion 1947-1950
Winner of 1938 AMA Pacific Coast Championship
Categories :
Dirt-Track
RoadRacing
Specialty Competition
Inducted 1998
1920s Indian Hillclimb Racer
Categories :
Specialty Competition
Inducted 1998
Indian Race Department Manager.
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 1998
Pioneering motorcycle racer
City-to-city run record holder
Categories :
RoadRacing
Specialty Competition
Inducted 1999
Dirt Track Tuner.
Engine Developer.
Categories :
Dirt-Track
Inducted 2001
Third American to ride the International Six Days Trial
Southern California off-road racer of the 1950s and 1960s
Many-time winner of off-road events on Catalina Island.
Categories :
Off-Road
Inducted 1999
Motorcycle stuntman of the 1930s-1960s
"Globe of Death" Rider
Categories :
Specialty Competition
Inducted 1998
Race announcer.
Promoter.
Club organizer.
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 1999
AMA Board of Trustees Chairman.
Publisher
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 1999
1980s AMA Motocross & Supercross Champion.
1983 AMA Pro Athlete of the Year.
Categories :
Motocross & Supercross
Inducted 1999
Pioneering U.S. motocrosser.
Designer of Supercross tracks.
Categories :
Motocross & Supercross
Inducted 1999
Winner of seven consecutive U.S. enduro championships.
Helped found Motorcycle Hall of Fame Museum.
Categories :
Off-Road
Inducted 1998
Pioneering racer.
Cross-country record holder.
Categories :
Specialty Competition
Inducted 1999
First American to win a road racing world championship. Winner of 1977 Daytona 200
Categories :
RoadRacing
Inducted 2001
Five-time AMA Formula One Champion and all-time series wins leader. 27 AMA National wins (F1 & Superbike), a top contender in 1980s AMA Superbike racing and first three-time Suzuka 8 Hour winner. 16 AMA National wins and a top contender in 1980s AMA Superbike racing.
Categories :
RoadRacing
Inducted 2014
Founder, Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum
Founder, Barber Motorsports Park
Philanthropist
Categories :
RoadRacing
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 2001
Factory Suzuki rider and off-road star of the 1980s.
1980-'82 AMA 125cc and 1981 AMA Supercross champion.
Member of 1983 winning Motocross des Nations team.
Categories :
Motocross & Supercross
Inducted 2000
A double amputee who rode a Harley-Davidson around the world.
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 2000
Seven-time U.S. speedway champion
Categories :
Specialty Competition
Inducted 2009
Founder of Bates Motor Scooter Service
Entity grew into Bates Manufacturing Co. then Bates Industries, which produced the popular and ubiquitous Bates Leathers.
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 2000
1991 250cc and 500cc Motocross National champion
1991 Supercross champion
Two-time motocross world champion
Road racer
Categories :
Motocross & Supercross
Inducted 2008
Part of the team of executives who helped to resurrect the Harley-Davidson Motor Company in the 1980s
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 2007
AMA Grand National racer for Harley-Davidson in the 1970s
Categories :
Dirt-Track
Inducted 1998
Member of the famed "Indian Wrecking Crew".
Last rider to win an AMA Grand National race on an Indian.
Categories :
Dirt-Track
Inducted 2001
Son of famous race tuner Bill Bell and top off-road star in his own right.
Won the 1980 Supercross title
Categories :
Motocross & Supercross
Inducted 2000
1920s board-track racer, Hillclimber, 24-hour world-record holder, Three-Flags Run record holder, Cross-country competitor with Baker and Remaley
Categories :
Specialty Competition
Inducted 2005
Legendary builder and tuner for four-time Grand National Champion Carroll Resweber and other racers
Categories :
Design & Engineering
Inducted 2000
Founder of New England's oldest and largest Honda/Suzuki dealership.
Longtime sponsor of race teams and riders.
Categories :
Dirt-Track
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 2003
Longtime ambassador for motorcycling.
Won inaugural AMA Sidecar Road Racing Championship.
Developed and sold Bingham sidecars.
Known as "Mr. Sidecar".
Categories :
RoadRacing
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 2001
This Baja legend has ridden all 33 Baja 1000s, 27 Baja 500s, 17 Tecate 500 Enduros, and two ISDTs.
Dealer in Escondido still prepping race bikes.
Categories :
Off-Road
Inducted 2000
Winner of America's first 500cc national championship motocross race in 1972
Motocross school instructor
Categories :
Motocross & Supercross
Inducted 2004
Five-time New England Scrambles Champion, mid 1960s and 1970s. Designer and manufacturer of motorcycle tools. Long-time contributing editor for Cycle World, Cycle Sport; engineer and designer.
Categories :
Design & Engineering
Off-Road
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 2000
Winner of 8 dirt-track nationals
Top-10 ranking 1981-1986
1985 Grand National Championship runnerup
Categories :
Dirt-Track
Inducted 1998
Founder of the International Brotherhood of Motorcycle Campers.
Author of articles and books about traveling and camping by motorcycle.
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 1999
Winner of 10 AMA national hillclimb titles.
Categories :
Specialty Competition
Inducted 2010
Founder, Boyesen Engineering
Legendary two-stroke tuner
Inducted in 2010
Categories :
Design & Engineering
RoadRacing
Motocross & Supercross
Off-Road
Inducted 2005
Famed tuner whose work in air flow improved numerous racing engines
Categories :
Design & Engineering
Inducted 1998
Winner of 15 AMA nationals from 1952 to 1960.
Categories :
Dirt-Track
Inducted 2000
Land-speed record holder and journalist
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Specialty Competition
Inducted 1998
1972 AMA Grand National Champion
Categories :
Dirt-Track
RoadRacing
Inducted 1998
1920s Class A Racing Champion.
Categories :
Dirt-Track
Inducted 2001
Trials competitor for 50 years.
Three-time Southern California champion.
Enduro, hare and hound, ice-racing competitor.
Categories :
Specialty Competition
Inducted 2002
Founder of Women in the Wind.
Uniting, educating and promoting the positive image of women in motorcycling.
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 1999
Creator of Classic Motorcycle Film, "On Any Sunday"
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 2001
Former Cycle magazine editor.
Former executive for Johnson Motors Triumph, BSA Inc., Suzuki.
Became a respected industry consultant.
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 2004
Eight-time National Hillclimb Champion, 1938 through 1951. Built his own engines, made heads, cast cylinders, designed and built frames.
Categories :
Specialty Competition
Inducted 1999
Greenhorn Enduro Winner, Land Speed Record Holder
Categories :
Off-Road
Specialty Competition
Inducted 1998
1940s, '50s Hillclimb Champion.
Categories :
Specialty Competition
Inducted 2019
1980s Became state coordinator for ABATE of Colorado
Helped expand ABATE of Colorado membership from 200 to 2,000
1992 Joined board of directors of Motorcycle Rights Foundation
1995 Worked with AMA, MRF and state SMROs on national helmet repeal
2018 Inducted into Motorcycle Riders Foundation Freedom Fighters Hall of Fame
Categories :
Inducted 2002
Sportbike designer and engineer.
Chairman and Chief Technical Officer of Buell Motorcycle Company.
Categories :
Design & Engineering
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 1996
“Old #91” dominated Midwest short-track from 1949 to 1963.
Won eight consecutive state dirt track championships.
Categories :
Dirt-Track
Inducted 2002
Division Manager, Research and Design for Yamaha Motors Corp. U.S.A.
Developed and introduced 36 models to the world market.
Categories :
Design & Engineering
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 2004
1947 Class A National Hillclimb Champion, 1952 Open Class C Hillclimb Champion, 1955 Big Bear Grand Prix winner. Motorcycle dealer.
Categories :
Specialty Competition
Inducted 1999
Winner of eight consecutive AMA National Enduro Championships.
Winner of eight consecutive ISDT Gold Medals.
Categories :
Off-Road
Inducted 1998
1910s, '20s Class A Racing Champion
Categories :
Dirt-Track
Inducted 2012
Under the leadership of Rod Bush, KTM grew from a small European alternative into an off-road racing powerhouse.
Categories :
Inducted 1998
1938, '39 Daytona 200 winner
Categories :
Dirt-Track
Inducted 2001
U.S. Senator fighting for motorcyclist rights on the national level.
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Leadership & Rights
Inducted 2013
Most successful AMA Motocros/AMA Supercross Champion ever
Known as the G.O.A.T—the Greatest Of All Time
Known for being successful on wide-ranging machinery
Earned a combined 150 pro overall wins. He notched 72 AMA MX overalls, 48 AMA Supercross main events, 26 AMA Motocross Lites overalls and 12 AMA Supercross Lites main events.
He is the only rider in AMA Motocross with an undefeated season at the sport's top level, a feat he accomplished an astounding three times, in 2002, 2004, and 2005.
Categories :
Motocross & Supercross
Inducted 2004
Seven-time AMA Grand National Flat Track Champion.
2003 AMA Pro Athlete of the Year.
1985 AMA Rookie of the Year.
Motorcycle land speed record holder.
Categories :
Dirt-Track
Specialty Competition
Inducted 1999
Grand Prix Tuner
1969 250cc World Road Racing Champion
Categories :
RoadRacing
Inducted 2001
Motorcycle restorer, promoter and former board member of the Antique Motorcycle Club of America.
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 2001
Engineer at the Indian Motocycle Company in the 1930s and 1940s.
Played a key role in the design of many new models.
Categories :
Design & Engineering
Inducted 2019
2007 AMA Sportsman of the Year
11 National Championship Event Wins
2011, 2012 and 2013 AMA National Hare and Hound Championships
2012 Won Baja San Felipe 250, a race on Mexico’s Baja Peninsula organized by SCORE
2013 Won Desafio Ruta 40 Rally in Argentina, a round of the FIM Cross-Country Rally World Championship Series
2006 Was a member of the ISDE U.S. Junior Trophy Team that won its category at the FIM International Six Days Enduro in Taupo, New Zealand.
Categories :
Inducted 1998
Two-time AMA Class C Champion in the 1930s
First-ever AMA National Class C Champion
Amateur hillclimb champion
Categories :
Dirt-Track
RoadRacing
Specialty Competition
Inducted 2010
Competed against greatest motorcycle racers of all-time.
Won 1973 San Jose, Calif., half-mile.
Categories :
Dirt-Track
Inducted 2005
Flat-track racer in the 1950s; helped establish Honda's U.S. dealer network; executive at BSA and later K&N
Categories :
Dirt-Track
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 1999
Top motocross racer of the 1980s.
Categories :
Motocross & Supercross
Inducted 2006
Three-time AMA Superbike Champion.
One of four riders to win the AMA Grand Slam by winning a national on mile, half-mile, short-track, TT and road race courses.
Categories :
Dirt-Track
RoadRacing
Inducted 1998
1947-'49 AMA Grand National Champion
Categories :
Dirt-Track
Inducted 2006
International representative for Harley-Davidson.
Expanded the company's sales in Japan and elsewhere around the world.
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 2005
Dominant motorcycle drag racer of the 1970s, inventor of the famous Norton "Hogslayer"
Categories :
Specialty Competition
Inducted 1998
1910s, '20s Class A Racing Champion
Categories :
Dirt-Track
Inducted 2012
Road-racing tuner for world champions.
Categories :
Inducted 2001
With wife, Sharon, he turned a small West Coast publication into the weekly Cycle News, which serves the sport to this day.
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 2000
With husband, Chuck, she turned a small West Coast publication into the weekly Cycle News, which serves the sport to this day.
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 1998
Cycle Magazine Publisher; dealer and racer in the 1920s.
Class A Racer.
Promoter.
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 2008
Engineer, motorcycle dealer, racer and industry executive
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 1998
First Secretary of AMA, 1924
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 2016
Created C&J Frames that have been raced to countless AMA Grand National victories and championships since 1970
Categories :
Inducted 2010
Three-time AMA Roadracing Sidecar Champion.
Land-speed record holder in sidecar divisions.
Categories :
RoadRacing
Inducted 2010
Founded the Blue Ribbon Coalition
Defended off-road riding rights in the Western United States
Instrumental in passage of federal Recreational Trails Program
Categories :
Leadership & Rights
Inducted 1999
Drag-Racing Champion
Engine Developer
Categories :
Specialty Competition
Inducted 2000
Speedway champion, racebike tuner, industry executive
Tuner
Triumph factory mechanic
Vice president of Birmingham Small Arms in '60s and '70s
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Specialty Competition
Inducted 1998
Engineer, Designer for Indian Motocycle Co. and Excelsior-Henderson Motorcycles
Categories :
Design & Engineering
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 2004
1979 and 1980 AMA Superbike Champion. Eight AMA Superbike race wins. Member of two winning Suzuka Eight-Hour endurance race teams.
Categories :
RoadRacing
Inducted 2000
Founder of High Point Raceway, Steel City Raceway and Loretta Lynn Nationals.
Considered founder of arenacross.
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 2000
Inventor and founder of Corbin, the top motorcycle seat manufacturer in the world.
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 2000
Penton rider in the 1960s & '70s.
Helped develop the Penton motorcycle.
10-time ISDT team member.
Categories :
Off-Road
Inducted 1998
Founder of Crocker Motorcycles
Categories :
Design & Engineering
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 2018
Winner of 1982 AMA Grand National Enduro Championship
Played key role in U.S. team’s second-place finish at 1982 International Six Days Enduro
Winner of 1984 AMA Grand National Enduro Championship
1984 AMA Athlete of the Year
Categories :
Off-Road
Inducted 1996
Motorcycle rights activist, lobbyist for the Motorcycle Riders Foundation, former AMA Board member.
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 1998
Motorcycle Builder
Aviation Pioneer
Categories :
Design & Engineering
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 2006
Race car driver and official who founded the Colorado 500 off-road motorcycle event that supports charities and preserves off-road riding areas
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 2002
U.S. motocross pioneer in late 1960s
Categories :
Motocross & Supercross
Inducted 1998
Co-founder, Harley-Davidson Motor Co., 1903
Categories :
Design & Engineering
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 1998
Co-founder, Harley-Davidson Motor Co., 1903
Categories :
Design & Engineering
Inducted 1998
Co-founder, Harley-Davidson Motor Co., 1903
Categories :
Design & Engineering
Inducted 1999
Harley-Davidson Motor Co. Designer
Categories :
Design & Engineering
Inducted 1999
President, Harley-Davidson Motor Co.
Categories :
Design & Engineering
Inducted 2018
Hollywood stuntman with 280 film credits
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 1998
Winner of the first AMA-sanctioned race
Categories :
Dirt-Track
Ambassadors & Industry
Specialty Competition
Inducted 2012
1990 AMA Supercross 125cc West Region Champion
AMA National Enduro Champion in 1995, 1999
AMA National Hare & Hound Champion, 1997,1998, 2002.
Categories :
Inducted 2002
Thirty-two career AMA Grand National victories
Five-time champion of MARS Racing Series
Philanthropist working with Racing for Kids.
Categories :
Dirt-Track
Inducted 1999
Five-Time Motocross World Champion
Trans-AMA Champion
Motocross des Nations Champion
Categories :
Motocross & Supercross
Inducted 2001
AMA and Paradama Board member, ‘Cycle World’ Vice President and Editorial Director. National Director of racing and manufacturing for Yankee and Ossa.
Categories :
Motocross & Supercross
Off-Road
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 1999
Racer, Harley-Davidson Dealer, Distributor
Categories :
Dirt-Track
RoadRacing
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 2001
Successful dirt-track racer in the 1950s and '60s.
Tuned for Mark Brelsford and many other top riders.
Current team owner.
Categories :
Dirt-Track
Inducted 1998
1900s Board Track Champion
1915 Indianapolis 500 Winner
Categories :
Specialty Competition
Inducted 1998
1900s Board Track Champion
Categories :
Dirt-Track
Inducted 1999
AMA Motocross Pioneer
Categories :
Motocross & Supercross
Inducted 2002
Set world speed records in 1953 and 1955.
Vincent dealer and road racer in the 1950s.
Categories :
RoadRacing
Specialty Competition
Inducted 1999
1975-'77 AMA National Motocross Champion
1977 AMA Pro Athlete of the Year
Categories :
Motocross & Supercross
Inducted 2002
"The Wheelie King" best known stunt motorcyclist in the 1980s & 1990s.
His world record for the longest continuous wheelie of 145 miles stood for over 8 years.
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Specialty Competition
Inducted 1999
1950s-'60s AMA Dirt Track Racer.
Categories :
Dirt-Track
Inducted 1998
Early sidecar racing champion.
Founder of the first Honda dealership east of the Mississippi.
Categories :
Dirt-Track
Ambassadors & Industry
Specialty Competition
Inducted 2004
Pioneer and Founder of the Motor Maids of America, the oldest motorcycling organization for women in North America. Motorcycle rider and enthusiast throughout her life.
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 2016
One of the winningest AMA Superbike racers in history, AMA Superbike Champions in 1995, won the Daytona 200 five times, won five AMA Supersport titles and two AMA Formula Xtreme titles, took home 86 career AMA wins.
Categories :
Inducted 1999
1970s AMA Road Racer
Categories :
RoadRacing
Inducted 2004
Major investor and former President of the Indian Motocycle Company in the post-Depression years from 1929 through 1945.
Saved the company from financial ruin.
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 1999
Pioneer U.S. Motocross Promoter.
Categories :
Motocross & Supercross
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 1998
1946 AMA National Champion
Categories :
Dirt-Track
Inducted 2018
Tuner for Honda factory flat track team that won three straight AMA Grand National Championships
Tuner for Honda team that won 1988 AMA Superbike title
Categories :
Dirt-Track
Inducted 1999
Organized 1973 International Six Day Trial in USA
Categories :
Inducted 1998
1940s AMA Dirt Track Racing Champion
Categories :
Dirt-Track
Inducted 1998
1950s AMA Grand National Racer
Categories :
RoadRacing
Inducted 2009
Champion of off-road motorcyclists' rights
Categories :
Off-Road
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 1999
Motocross Pioneer, dealer, Hollywood stunt rider.
International Six Day Trials Gold Medalist.
Movie Stuntman.
Categories :
Off-Road
Ambassadors & Industry
Specialty Competition
Inducted 2001
Won numerous off-road events, including Baja, Catalina and Greenhorn Enduro.
1964 and '66 ISDT Gold Medal winner.
Later, a motorcycle journalist.
Categories :
Off-Road
Ambassadors & Industry
Specialty Competition
Inducted 1998
1979 AMA Grand National Champion
Categories :
Dirt-Track
Inducted 1998
1920s Speedway Racing Champion
Categories :
Specialty Competition
Inducted 2012
AMA Supercross 250cc National champion, 1975
Categories :
Inducted 2010
Top roadracer of the 1970s.
1977 AMA 250cc Roadracing Champion.
Categories :
RoadRacing
Inducted 1999
1972 Daytona 200 Winner.
Publisher.
Categories :
RoadRacing
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 1998
1948 Daytona 200 Winner.
Categories :
Dirt-Track
Off-Road
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 2004
Three AMA Motocross Championships, one AMA Supercross Championship. 1999 US Open of Supercross winner, 37 National victories, member of six Motocross des Nations teams 1992 through 1997.
Categories :
Motocross & Supercross
Inducted 2017
Founded Flying Machine Factory (FMF) in 1973
Developed "Q" series exhausts for two-stroke and four-stroke engines
Categories :
Inducted 2003
First woman to compete in FIM World Championship Trials event.
Top rider in Women’s World Cup Trials competition.
Motorcycle stunt rider in over 200 movies and television programs.
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Specialty Competition
Inducted 2001
1957 & '58 Peoria TT National winner.
Ranked in top six in points 1956-'57.
Categories :
Dirt-Track
Inducted 2002
Motorcycle rights activist for four decades. Executive Director of ABATE of Indiana, founder of Motorcycle Riders Foundation, and Movin’ on Motorcycle School.
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 2000
Three-time AMA 250cc Grand Prix road-race national champion and winner of 29 AMA nationals
Categories :
RoadRacing
Inducted 2012
Women's National Motocross champion in 1976 and 1977.
Categories :
Inducted 2002
Racer, tuner, dealer and life-long motorcycle enthusiast.
Winner of the 1953 Laconia 100-mile National Championship road race.
Categories :
RoadRacing
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 1998
Off-road racer.
Land Speed Record Steward.
Manufacturer.
Distributor.
Categories :
Off-Road
Ambassadors & Industry
Specialty Competition
Inducted 2000
Motorcycling ambassador providing positive exposure for the sport. Made the road trip famous in “Easy Rider.”
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 1999
International Motorcycling Ambassador
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 2009
Bob Fox founded Fox Racing Shox.
The Fox AirShox is recognized as one of the industry's most significant suspension innovations.
Categories :
Design & Engineering
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 2011
Turned Parts Unlimited into a worldwide force in motorcycle parts distribution.
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 2009
Started Fox Racing.
Popularized the Fox Head logo.
A pioneer in casual and protective gear.
Categories :
Design & Engineering
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 2000
Continues with his father's work of making Daytona one of the most prestigious tracks in the world.
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 2000
Promoted post-World War II Daytona 200.
Turned it into one of the world's most prestigious motorcycle events.
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 2016
Improved existing Powerplus engine; Created the Indian Scout and Indian Chief; Standout among first British motorcycle racers
Categories :
Inducted 1998
1920s Class A Racing Champion
Categories :
Dirt-Track
RoadRacing
Inducted 2002
"Mr. ISDT/ISDE" multi gold medal winner, national Enduro winner and motorcycle performance product developer.
Categories :
Off-Road
Inducted 1998
1940s land speed record holder
Categories :
Specialty Competition
Inducted 1999
1950s AMA Pro Racer, Race Official
Categories :
Dirt-Track
RoadRacing
Inducted 1998
1951 Jack Pine Enduro Champion, Race Official
Categories :
Off-Road
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 2004
Winner of 1956 Daytona 200 and over 100 dirt-track, road-race and TT races. Helped organize speedway-racing revival in U.S.
Categories :
RoadRacing
Inducted 1997
Developer of Two Wheel Trauma and Accident Scene Management classes.
Provides emergency medical training to responders to motorcycle accidents.
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 1996
Co-founder of 'Harley Women' Magazine.
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 2000
1977-79 125cc motocross national champion.
1981, '83, '85 500cc motocross national champion.
50 motocross national wins.
Categories :
Motocross & Supercross
Inducted 1999
Winner of five AMA Nationals from 1952-1955
Winner of 1953 Daytona 200
Categories :
Dirt-Track
RoadRacing
Inducted 1998
1980, '83 AMA Grand National Champion
Categories :
Dirt-Track
Inducted 1998
1910s Class A Racing Champion
Categories :
Dirt-Track
Inducted 1998
1910s Class A Racing Champion
Categories :
Dirt-Track
Inducted 1998
Three-time AMA Grand National Champion
1993 AMA Athlete of the Year
Categories :
Dirt-Track
RoadRacing
Inducted 1998
1910s Board Track Champion
Categories :
Specialty Competition
Inducted 2007
Former editor at Cycle and Motorcyclist.
Author.
Organizer of Greenhorn Enduro.
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 2010
Founded JT Racing USA.
Supported many of the greatest MXers of all-time.
Categories :
Motocross & Supercross
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 1999
1950s, '60s AMA Dirt Track Racing Champion
Categories :
Dirt-Track
Inducted 2000
1964 500cc American Grand Prix winner at Daytona.
Categories :
RoadRacing
Inducted 2016
• 15-time Baja 1000 winner
• Three-time Baja 500 winner
• Four-time AMA Golden Wrench Award winner
• Six-time Motocross of Nations mechanic (world title each year)
• Factory motocross mechanic 10 years
• Pike’s Peak Hill Climb champion
• Class 40 champion Baja 2000
• Class 50 champion, Baja 1000
Categories :
Inducted 2000
Multi-time 250cc motocross world champion.
Helped introduce motocross to American riders
Categories :
Motocross & Supercross
Inducted 2000
Broke Wells Bennett's 24-hour endurance record in the late 1930s.
Three-Flags Run record setter.
Categories :
Specialty Competition
Inducted 2013
Five-time AMA Hare and Hound National Champion
SCORE Baja 1000 and 500 overall winner.
Categories :
Off-Road
Inducted 2000
Versatile racer who excelled at road race, TT, and flat track.
First winner of Daytona 250cc class.
Categories :
Dirt-Track
RoadRacing
Inducted 1999
1976, '78, '79 AMA Motocross Champion
1977-'79 AMA Supercross Champion
1978 Pro Athlete of the Year
Categories :
Motocross & Supercross
Inducted 1999
Racer, Team Manager, Tuner
Categories :
RoadRacing
Inducted 2008
Three-Time ISDE Medalist, Five-Time Baja 500/1000 Overall Motorcycle Champion, Dakar Rally Finisher
Categories :
Off-Road
Inducted 1998
Co-founder, Harley-Davidson Motor Co., 1903
Categories :
Design & Engineering
Inducted 2000
First American to compete and medal in ISDE at 1913 event on the Isle of Man
Categories :
Off-Road
Inducted 2009
73 AMA National race wins
Seven-time AMA National Enduro Champion
13-time ISDE gold medalist, two-time silver medalist
Categories :
Off-Road
Inducted 2018
First recipient of AMA Horizon Award
1999 AMA Flat Track Rookie of the Year
Winner of 2002 Daytona 200
Winner of 2002 AMA Superbike Championship
Winner of 2006 MotoGP World Championship
Categories :
RoadRacing
Inducted 1998
1950 AMA Grand National Champion
Categories :
Dirt-Track
Inducted 1998
Co-founder and Chief Engineer of the Indian Motocycle Co.
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 2003
Co-Founder of Webco performance equipment company. Promoter of motorcycling sport and business in 1950s, '60s, '70s. President of Motorcycle Industry Council in 1972.
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 1998
Co-Founder of the Indian Motocycle Company.
Championship bicycle racer.
Categories :
Design & Engineering
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 1998
Co-founder, Henderson Motorcycle Co.
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 1998
Co-founder, Henderson Motorcycle Co., 1911
Categories :
Design & Engineering
Inducted 2007
First American to win a 500cc World Grand Prix road race; was battling with Kenny Roberts for the world championship when a crash prematurely ended his career
Categories :
RoadRacing
Inducted 2005
Three-time AMA motocross champion, first to win the title on a four-stroke in the modern era.
Top racer in the AMA Supermoto Championship.
Categories :
Motocross & Supercross
Inducted 1998
1910s, '20s Class A Racing Champion
Categories :
Dirt-Track
RoadRacing
Inducted 2000
First American factory-sponsored motocross rider
Categories :
Motocross & Supercross
Inducted 1998
Member of the famed "Indian Wrecking Crew".
Won the inaugural race of the first AMA Grand National Championship series.
Categories :
Dirt-Track
Inducted 1998
Indian Race Department Manager
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 1990
Accomplished Harley-Davidson drag racer. IDBA third place 1979, second place 1980, first place 1981.
Categories :
Specialty Competition
Inducted 1998
1937 Springfield Mile Champion
Categories :
Dirt-Track
Inducted 2014
Dozens of national championships as a tuner
Dominated drag racing building bikes for Terry Vance
Co-founded Vance & Hines
Categories :
Design & Engineering
RoadRacing
Specialty Competition
Inducted 1998
Co-founder, Antique Motorcycle Club of America
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 1998
Founder of the Sturgis Black Hills Classic.
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 1991
The first lady of the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 2000
Co-founder of Honda Motor Company
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 1998
AMA Competition Director, 1946–'74
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 2009
Leading rider-training advocate.
Longtime journalist.
Author of "Proficient Motorcycling".
Categories :
Leadership & Rights
Inducted 2000
Three-time AMA Motocross champion, winner of 32 nationals.
Categories :
Motocross & Supercross
Inducted 1998
1940s, '50s AMA Dirt Track Racing Champion
Categories :
Dirt-Track
Inducted 2008
Longtime race announcer
Radio and television host
The original "Voice of Supercross"
Co-writer and co-producer of "On any Sunday II"
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 2001
Co-founder of ‘Road Rider’ magazine, AMA Trustee, and one of the first Americans to ride a motorcycle into Russia.
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 2007
Award-winning author.
Leader of the groundbreaking "Hurt Report" study of motorcycle crashes.
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 1997
Historic motorcycle club began in 1936.
Has been an AMA chartered club since 1937.
Categories :
Inducted 1998
1910s Dirt Track and Board Track Racing Champion.
Categories :
Dirt-Track
Inducted 2005
Triumph importer largely responsible for the company's success in the United States.
Brought innovative business practices to the industry.
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 2016
First overall in the 1979 Baja 500; also first in the solo rider class. First overall at the Baja 1000 in 1978, 1979, 1980 and 1982. Won class in the Baja 1000 from 2001 through 2007. Won silver medal in the 1980 International Six Days Trial. Won gold medal in 1981 International Six Days Enduro.
Categories :
Inducted 1999
1984, '86, '87, '88 AMA motocross champion, 1986, '88 Supercross champion
1986, '88 AMA Supercross Champion
1986, '87 AMA Pro Athlete of the Year
Categories :
Motocross & Supercross
Inducted 2000
1972-74 motocross national champion.
Categories :
Motocross & Supercross
Inducted 1998
1920s, '30s racer; successful dealer, parts distributor.
Aftermarket Parts Distributor.
Categories :
Dirt-Track
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 1998
Class A Racing Champion
Categories :
Dirt-Track
RoadRacing
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 2016
10 AMA Grand National Champinoship wins, 32 podium finishes between 1980 and 1995, finished in the top 10 in 11 consecutive seasons and scoared Grand National point in 21 consecutive seasons.
Categories :
Inducted 2015
National wins in all four dirt-track disciplines
Categories :
Inducted 2001
Tuner for many top road-racers.
With Freddie Spencer aboard, his machines won the 1985 250cc and 500cc World Road Racing Championships.
Categories :
Design & Engineering
RoadRacing
Inducted 2002
Publisher of many magazines such as, ‘American Iron,’ ‘Thunder Alley,’ ‘Motorcycle Tour & Cruiser’ ‘Hottest Custom Iron,’ ‘90 Years of Harley-Davidson.’
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 2014
1975 FIM 500cc Motocross World Champion
1973 AMA 500cc National Motocross Champion
Three-time Holland National Champion
Categories :
Motocross & Supercross
Inducted 1998
1937 National Speedway Champion
Categories :
Inducted 2000
1960s and '70s dirt-track racer; contributed to advances in chassis and engine design as a tuner
Part of the original "BSA Wrecking Crew"
Categories :
Dirt-Track
Inducted 2018
Five AMA Grand National Championship Series wins
Categories :
Dirt-Track
Inducted 1999
AMA Board of Trustees Chairman.
Distributor, Racer
Categories :
Dirt-Track
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 1998
1981 AMA Grand National Champion, Promoter
Categories :
Dirt-Track
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 2007
Four-time AMA National Motocross champion
Categories :
Motocross & Supercross
Inducted 1998
Three-time Daytona 200 winner.
AMA National Motocross promoter.
Categories :
Dirt-Track
RoadRacing
Inducted 1999
Motorcycle Stuntman.
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Specialty Competition
Inducted 2015
1987-89 AMA 250 Grand Prix Champion
1990 250cc World Champion
1997 World Superbike Champion
Categories :
Inducted 1998
Motorcycle Ambassador.
"Motorcyclin' Grandma"
First Woman AMA Trustee.
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 1998
Winner of the first Daytona 200.
Categories :
Dirt-Track
Inducted 2002
Ambassador for motorcycle racing.
Successful TT and road racer in the 1950s.
Categories :
Dirt-Track
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 2003
Executive Secretary of the AMA in the 1950s and 1960s. Following a stint with NASCAR, he was brought back to lead the AMA in the mid-1970s. Helped launch the creation of the American Motorcycle Heritage Foundation.
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 2003
1950 AMA National Enduro Champion.
Three-time winner of the Greenhorn Enduro.
Class A Enduro Pacific Coast Championship winner in 1948, '50, '51, '52.
Categories :
Off-Road
Inducted 1999
1972 AMA National Motocross Champion.
First American to win the 500cc World MX Championship.
Categories :
Motocross & Supercross
Inducted 2003
Ambassador of road riding.
“Million Mile Al” was the quintessential motorcycle rider who lived to ride and rode to live.
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 1998
Speedway Racing Champion
Categories :
Specialty Competition
Inducted 2000
1979 500cc motocross national champion.
Member of first U.S. winning Motocross des Nations team.
250cc motocross world champion.
Categories :
Motocross & Supercross
Inducted 2014
1993 AMA 500 National Motocross Champion
1994 AMA 250 National Motocross Champion
2000 Supercross World Championship
Categories :
Motocross & Supercross
Inducted 2002
Motocross and ISDT/ISDE gold medal winner.
Among the first Swedish motocrossers to make his mark in the U.S.
First Husqvarna factory rider in America.
Categories :
Motocross & Supercross
Inducted 1999
1984, '86, '88, '89 500cc World Road Racing Champion.
1981, '82 AMA Superbike Champion.
1984 AMA Pro Athlete of the Year.
Categories :
Dirt-Track
RoadRacing
Inducted 1998
1969 AMA Grand National Champion
Categories :
Dirt-Track
RoadRacing
Inducted 1998
Three-Time Big Bear Enduro Winner, Dealer, Sponsor
Categories :
Off-Road
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 2019
Won 26 AMA Supercross/Pro Motocross races
Won 1985 AMA 125cc National Motocross Championship
Categories :
Inducted 2000
Television star.
Motorcycling ambassador.
Enthusiast.
Collector.
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 1998
Six-Time Jack Pine Enduro Winner
Categories :
Off-Road
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 1998
1954, '56, '57 AMA Grand National Champion
Categories :
Dirt-Track
RoadRacing
Inducted 1998
Triumph Tuner, Dealer
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 1998
1930s-'40s AMA Hillclimb Champion
Categories :
Specialty Competition
Inducted 2000
Racer
Engineer
Categories :
Motocross & Supercross
Off-Road
Inducted 2001
Ex-speedway racer who found great success in movie stunt work in the 1930s and '40s.
Member of traveling stunt show.
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Specialty Competition
Inducted 2017
Five time AMA hare Scrambles National Champion
Nine-time Grand National Cross Country Series Champion
1982 top American at International Six Days Enduro
1982 AMA Amatuer Athlete of the Year
Categories :
Inducted 1998
1920s Class A Racing Champion.
Categories :
Dirt-Track
Inducted 1999
Dirt Track's Steel Shoe Maker
Categories :
Dirt-Track
Inducted 2016
Categories :
Inducted 2002
Motorcycle race photographer for 39 years. Took over 435,000 photos and printed over 1 million pictures for racers, fans and publications.
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 2001
Worked at Penton Imports and announced races in the 1970s and '80s.
Later moved onto television with "MotoWorld" and Speedvision
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 2000
1978 AMA 250cc Grand Prix champion, finished in top 10 in 11 of his 13 seasons in Grand Prix World Championship
Three-time winner of Monterey national road race, 13 500cc world championship road-race victories
Categories :
RoadRacing
Inducted 2004
Fine art painter whose work portrays the essence of the motorcycle lifestyle for a generation of riders.
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 1998
Two-time AMA Grand National Champion.
Winner, 1970 Daytona 200.
Competed at a national level in dirt track, motocross and road racing.
1995 AMA Dud Perkins Award Winner.
Categories :
Dirt-Track
RoadRacing
Inducted 2006
Builder of innovative streamliners that have set motorcycle land speed world records.
Categories :
Specialty Competition
Inducted 1998
Three-time AMA Grand National Champion
Categories :
Dirt-Track
Inducted 2002
Lifelong motorcycle enthusiast, racer, Indian and Moto Guzzi dealer.
Hillclimber from 1924 to 1988. Continues to ride into his 100's.
Categories :
Dirt-Track
Ambassadors & Industry
Specialty Competition
Inducted 2009
Built and managed teams in multiple disciplines.
One of the most successful team managers in history.
Keen eye for talent discovered eventual World Champions.
Categories :
Dirt-Track
RoadRacing
Motocross & Supercross
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 1998
1941, '50 Daytona 200 Winner
Categories :
Dirt-Track
Inducted 2015
Categories :
Inducted 2002
President of the Antique Motorcycle Club of America, AMHF Board Member, dedicated to collecting, restoring, riding and preserving antique motorcycles.
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 2001
Achieved 19 National Drag Bike Championships. Global manufacturer and distributor of the Overkill Engine and parts for nitromethane-powered Harley drag bikes.
Categories :
Specialty Competition
Inducted 2000
First American gold medalist in 1949 ISDE
Scrambles competitor in England
Road-racer
Dealer
Categories :
RoadRacing
Off-Road
Inducted 2013
Co-founder of K&N Engineering with fellow Hall of Famer Ken Johnson, an industry leader in motorcycle air filters.
Sponsored more than 100 racers, including 30 national-level riders
Started the now-longest-running Yamaha dealership in the U.S.
Runs K&N Motorcycles in Tulsa, Okla., with his family
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 2018
Among the first women to race motorcycles in U.S. motocross and road racing
Public speaker and mentor to motorcyclists
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 2003
Brought to AMA Supercross a previously unseen level of showmanship. Seven AMA Supercross Championships, Two World Supercross Championships, One AMA Motocross Championship.
Categories :
Motocross & Supercross
Inducted 1999
Motorcycle Drill Team Pioneer
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 2001
Winner of Catalina Grand Prix Open and 250cc classes the same year.
Greenhorn Enduro winner.
AFM #1 500cc three years.
Categories :
Off-Road
Inducted 2004
Successful road racer in the 1960s and 1970s. Winner of the first AMA Superbike race at Daytona, member of the Transatlantic Match Races team, originated the World Superbike Championship in Europe.
Categories :
RoadRacing
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 1999
Actor, Motorcycle Enthusiast, Off-Road Racer
Categories :
Off-Road
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 2001
1984-86 AMA Superbike Champion, 1988-89 World Superbike Champion.
1988-'89 World Superbike Champion.
20 career AMA Superbike National wins.
Categories :
RoadRacing
Inducted 1998
Founder of Merkel Motorcycles, engineer
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 2006
Four-time World Grand Prix motocross champion.
Categories :
Motocross & Supercross
Inducted 1998
1940s, '50s AMA TT Champion
Categories :
Off-Road
Inducted 1998
Pioneer road rider and race organizer.
Categories :
Dirt-Track
Inducted 2007
Nine-time ISDT gold medal winner; British trials champion 11 consecutive years; designer of trials motorcycles; founder of Sammy Miller Motorcycle Museum
Categories :
Off-Road
Inducted 1998
1930s U.S. Speedway Racing Champion
Categories :
Specialty Competition
Inducted 1998
1937 World Speedway Racing Champion.
America's First World Champion.
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Specialty Competition
Inducted 1999
BSA Off-Road & Motocross Racer
Categories :
Motocross & Supercross
Off-Road
Inducted 1998
Eight-time AMA Hillclimb Champion during his 40-year racing career.
Categories :
Specialty Competition
Inducted 2017
1985 AMA 125 West Coast Supercross Champion
28 individual moto wins in the 125 and 250 classes
Finished second in 1990 and 1991 in the 125 class, and 1992 in the 250 class
Three German national championships
1994 FIM 125cc World Motocross Champion
Co-founded Road 2 Recovery Charity
Categories :
Inducted 1998
Advertising Director, BSA Motorcycle Co.
Co-founder, Antique Motorcycle Club of America.
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 2004
Career spanning three decades; dirt-track racer from 1972 to 1999. Upon retirement he was ranked tenth on the all-time AMA Grand National win list, and fourth-ranked in half-mile victories. Currently operations manager for AMA Flat Track.
Categories :
Dirt-Track
Inducted 1999
World-famous motorcycle stunt pioneer
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 1999
1960s AMA TT Racer.
Hollywood and TV stunt rider.
Categories :
Dirt-Track
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 2000
ISDE medalist.
Enduro rider.
Dealer.
Categories :
Off-Road
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 2006
Set land-speed records on his home-built Indian Scout.
His story was the basis of the movie "The World's Fastest Indian".
Categories :
Specialty Competition
Inducted 1998
1940s AMA Hillclimb Champion
Categories :
Specialty Competition
Inducted 2014
Tuner for multiple AMA Superbike championship teams
Tuner for 125cc AMA Motocross championship team
Top engine builder since the 1970s
Categories :
Design & Engineering
RoadRacing
Specialty Competition
Inducted 2006
Set new standards in motorcycle journalism as editor of Cycle magazine.
Helped popularize the new Superbike class in the 70s with his famous Ducati, "Old Blue".
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 1992
Master custom bike builder.
Pioneer in the motorcycle customizing industry.
Categories :
Design & Engineering
Inducted 1999
Motorcyclist rights activist.
Leader and lobbyist for ABATE of South Dakota.
Categories :
Leadership & Rights
Inducted 1999
1960s AMA Road Racer
Categories :
RoadRacing
Inducted 2005
Versatile racer of the 1940s and 1950s, competing in off-road, trials, road racing and flat-track; motorcycle dealer
Categories :
Dirt-Track
RoadRacing
Off-Road
Inducted 1999
1960s AMA Grand National Racer.
Categories :
Dirt-Track
Inducted 1998
1967 and 1968 AMA Grand National Champion.
Categories :
Dirt-Track
RoadRacing
Inducted 2000
Harley-Davidson racing team manager in the 1960s.
Categories :
Dirt-Track
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 2010
Top AMA District 37 desert racer
Multi-time Baja winner -- victories span four decades
Long-time manager of American Honda’s off-road race team
Lead developer of Honda CRF off-road race bikes
Inducted in 2010
Categories :
Off-Road
Inducted 2000
1983 AMA 125cc motocross national champion, member of four U.S. Motocross des Nations-winning teams
1984 250cc AMA Supercross champion
Member of four winning Motocross des Nations teams 1981, '82, '84, '86
Categories :
Motocross & Supercross
Inducted 2009
Won five AMA Grand National Championship events.
Innovator of the Yamaha 750.
One of the most-respected racers in the paddock.
Categories :
Dirt-Track
Inducted 1998
1930s, '40s Hillclimb Champion
Categories :
Specialty Competition
Inducted 2015
Founded J&P Cycles
Founded the National Motorcycle Museum
Categories :
Inducted 2003
Nine-time AMA Grand National Champion, all-time record 94 Grand National Championship race wins, including 55 AMA National Mile wins, 35 AMA Half-Mile wins. Three-time winner of AMA Pro Athlete of the Year.
Categories :
Dirt-Track
Inducted 2007
First American to win two Motocross GP world titles; multi-time Italian national MX champ
Categories :
Motocross & Supercross
Inducted 2001
Founder/publisher of Cycle World magazine. He changed the way motorcycle magazines covered the sport.
Co-founded Saddleback Park in Southern California.
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 1998
1910s, '20s Class A Racing Champion
Categories :
Dirt-Track
RoadRacing
Specialty Competition
Inducted 2001
Successful sidecar racer in scrambles and Bonneville speed trials. Today, he is one of the most respected restorers of antique motorcycles.
Categories :
Off-Road
Specialty Competition
Inducted 2001
Famous drag racer and top-speed competitor aboard his Harley-Davidson Sportsters, including the famous "Turnip Eater"
First non-streamliner to go over 200 mph at Bonneville.
Categories :
Specialty Competition
Inducted 2010
- Team owner and tuner.
- Founder of Pro Circuit.
- Managed dozens of national championship teams.
- Youth amateur racing champion.
Categories :
Motocross & Supercross
Inducted 1999
1980s Speedway World Champion, Actor
Categories :
Specialty Competition
Inducted 2003
Five-time AMA "Flagman of the Year".
Worked for nearly five decades as a race track official starter.
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 1999
Twelve-Time International Six Day Trials Competitor.
Categories :
Design & Engineering
Off-Road
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 1998
Founder of Penton Motorcycles and Hi-Point
Categories :
Inducted 2000
Winning ISDE rider with several medals
Penton development pioneer
Performance product designer
Categories :
Off-Road
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 2003
Custom motorcycle builder.
Developer of Perewitz Signature Series custom parts and accessories.
Categories :
Design & Engineering
Inducted 1998
Hillclimb champion.
Race team manager.
Dealer.
Sponsor.
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Specialty Competition
Inducted 1998
1910s Class A Racing Champion
Categories :
Dirt-Track
Inducted 2011
Motocross promoter extraordinaire.
Categories :
Motocross & Supercross
Inducted 1998
Class A Racing Champion, Land Speed Record Holder, Hillclimb Champion
Categories :
Dirt-Track
RoadRacing
Specialty Competition
Inducted 1999
Desert and Off-Road Racer, Motocross Pioneer
Categories :
Motocross & Supercross
Off-Road
Inducted 1998
1950s AMA TT Racer
Categories :
Dirt-Track
Inducted 1998
1920s, '30s hillclimb and endurance racer; dealer, promoter
Early Importer of European Motorcycles
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Specialty Competition
Inducted 2011
AMA 600cc Supersport champion
750cc Supersport champion
AMA SuperBike champion
World SuperBike champion
World endurance racing champion
Categories :
RoadRacing
Inducted 1999
International motocross champion
Categories :
Motocross & Supercross
Inducted 2008
Eleven AMA Grand National wins on mile, half-mile and short track courses.
Categories :
Dirt-Track
Inducted 1993
Drag racing’s Father of the Funnybike, designer of the wheelie bar and developer of the two-speed automatic transmission for drag racers.
Categories :
Specialty Competition
Inducted 2002
AMA Superbike National Champion in 1976, 1977 and 1978.
Founder of CLASS motorcycle schools.
Categories :
RoadRacing
Inducted 1999
1990-'92 500cc World Road Racing Champion
1983, '87 AMA Superbike Champion
Categories :
RoadRacing
Inducted 2001
Top 1960s and '70s Midwest dirt-track racer. Ranked third in AMA Grand National points in 1964. Winner of five AMA Nationals.
Categories :
Dirt-Track
Inducted 1999
1968, '69 Daytona 200 Winner.
Land Speed Record Holder.
Categories :
Dirt-Track
RoadRacing
Inducted 2001
Legendary custom motorcycle designer, owner of Uncle Bunt’s Chop Shop and in-house designer for Custom Chrome.
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 1998
1930s AMA Hillclimb Champion.
Categories :
Specialty Competition
Inducted 1998
Three-time Daytona 200 winner
First to win at Daytona International Speedway
Winner of the only Daytona 200 run in the rain
Categories :
RoadRacing
Inducted 2013
AMA Formula 1 Champion in 1986
AMA Pro Twins Champion in 1989
Known for being successful on wide-ranging machinery
Categories :
RoadRacing
Inducted 1998
Four-time AMA Grand National Champion
Categories :
Dirt-Track
Inducted 1998
1930s AMA National Hillclimb Champion.
Categories :
Specialty Competition
Inducted 2001
Versatile 1960s and '70s dirt-track star.
Won six AMA Nationals during the 1970 season alone.
Categories :
Dirt-Track
Inducted 2003
National spokesman and V.P. of the Office of Public Affairs for the now-defunct Indian Motorcycle Company
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 2007
British motocross racers who later built a successful business building custom frames for motocross, street, and road race bikes.
Categories :
Design & Engineering
Off-Road
Inducted 2000
Six-time motocross world champion
Trans-AMA competitor
Categories :
Motocross & Supercross
Inducted 1999
Desert and Off-Road Racer
Categories :
Off-Road
Ambassadors & Industry
Specialty Competition
Inducted 1998
First American to win a World 500 Grand Prix title
Three time Daytona 200 winner
Categories :
Dirt-Track
RoadRacing
Inducted 1998
AMA Enduro Champion.
Co-founder of Motor Maids.
Pioneer among women riders.
Motor Maids Co-Founder.
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 1998
Jack Pine Enduro Winner.
Class C Racer.
Sponsor.
Dealer.
Categories :
Off-Road
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 1999
Race Announcer, Journalist
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 1999
1960s Grand National Racer.
Land Speed Record Holder.
Categories :
Dirt-Track
Inducted 1999
1980s Enduro and Off-Road Racer
Categories :
Off-Road
Inducted 1998
1970 AMA Grand National Champion.
1975 Daytona 200 Winner.
Categories :
Dirt-Track
RoadRacing
Inducted 2002
American inventor and transportation pioneer who built a steam-powered motorcycle in 1869.
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 2000
Roving Editor for ‘Easyriders’ magazine for 27 years, monthly column “Rips Run.”
Founder of Rip’s B.A.D. Ride charity run in support of finding a cure for diabetes.
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 2005
Five-time Daytona 200 winner known as "Mr. Daytona;" 1992 AMA Superbike champion; 1993 World Superbike champion; Suzuka Eight Hour endurance winner
Categories :
RoadRacing
Inducted 2004
Founder/Owner of Performance Machine, designer of Performance Machine disk brakes and innovator of custom and racing wheels.
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 2004
Owner of DomiRacer distributor of vintage British and European motorcycle parts. Created an ordering system that became an industry standard.
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 2011
Part of the motorcycle design boom that occurred in the United States between 1905 and 1915.
Categories :
Design & Engineering
Inducted 2011
Moto-journalist who influenced generations
Played a part in Ducati's first Superbike win in America.
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 2002
Two-Time World Motocross Champion.
1986 125cc Western Supercross Champion.
Categories :
Motocross & Supercross
Inducted 2000
First American world trials champion in 1979.
Instructor and world-wide ambassador of trials.
1978 national trials champion.
Categories :
Specialty Competition
Inducted 2001
Six-time NHRA National Pro Stock Champion.
45 NHRA National event wins in 23-year racing career.
Categories :
Inducted 1999
1993 500cc World Road Racing Champion
1988 Daytona 200 Winner
Categories :
RoadRacing
Inducted 1998
Founder, Schwinn Bicycle Co.
Owner of Excelsior and Henderson Brands.
Categories :
Design & Engineering
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 1998
1975 AMA Grand National Champion.
Categories :
Dirt-Track
Inducted 2000
Winner of 17 dirt-track Nationals.
Factory Honda rider.
Top-10 ranking 1974-81, ’84.
Categories :
Dirt-Track
Inducted 1993
Motor Maids President for 12 years, Motor Maids officer since 1952. Dedicated ambassador of the sport.
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 1998
1985-'87 AMA Grand National Champion.
1988 AMA Superbike Champion.
1986, '87 AMA Pro Athlete of the Year.
Categories :
Dirt-Track
RoadRacing
Inducted 1998
1930s-'50s Engine Builder, Sponsor
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 2002
The "Flying Pig Farmer" won the Daytona 200 in 1979 and 1981 as a privateer racing against factory teams.
Categories :
RoadRacing
Inducted 2012
Bike restorer extraordinaire
Categories :
Inducted 1995
Custom motorcycle builder focusing on making beautiful and functional custom bikes.
Categories :
Design & Engineering
Inducted 1999
AMA Secretary, 1928-'58
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 1995
Motorcycle dealer since 1940.
Race sponsor and past president of the Chief Blackhawk Chapter of the Antique Motorcycle Club.
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 2000
1964-65 500cc world motocross champion
Former executive director of the American Historic Racing Motorcycle Association (AHRMA)
Categories :
Specialty Competition
Inducted 1998
Off-Road Racing Champion
Star of "On Any Sunday"
Categories :
Off-Road
Inducted 2000
1974-75 125cc motocross national champion
1977 500cc motocross national champion
Motocross grand prix and Trans-AMA competitor
Categories :
Motocross & Supercross
Inducted 2015
Championships in GNCC, AMA National Hare Scrambles and AMA National Reliability Enduros
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Inducted 1994
Founder S&S Cycle.
Leader in the development and production of high-performance V-Twin engines and aftermarket motorcycle parts.
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Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 2006
Flat-track racer with five national wins at Peoria; long-time dealer in Illinois
Categories :
Dirt-Track
Inducted 2003
Co-founder of 'Harley Women' magazine.
Author of many magazine articles, columns and a children's book on motorcycling.
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 1999
1983, '85 500cc World Road Racing Champion.
1985 250cc World Road Racing Champion.
1985 Daytona 200 Winner.
1983, '85 AMA Pro Athlete of the Year.
Categories :
Dirt-Track
RoadRacing
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 1998
1947 Daytona 200 Winner
Categories :
RoadRacing
Inducted 2003
Three-time AMA Grand National Champion with over 40 National Championship flat track race wins.
Categories :
Dirt-Track
Inducted 2000
Six-time AMA motocross and Supercross champion, leader of winning U.S. Motocross des Nations teams.
Categories :
Motocross & Supercross
Inducted 2017
Made first documentary that was produced by Dolby Stereo
Produced and direct more than 50 TV special on motorcycling and motorsports
Created the first film using a camera mounted on a motorcycle
Apart of the first live broadcast from a motorcycle in competition
Designed and built the first fully functional motorcycle sidecar camera vehicles
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Inducted 2007
Five-time national hillclimb champion in the 1920s, at the height of hillclimb's popularity
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Specialty Competition
Inducted 2002
Founder of Fort Wayne Motorcycle Safety School.
Headed Police One Motorcycle Training school.
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Leadership & Rights
Inducted 2002
In the 1940s, "The Motorcycle Queen of Miami" broke down barriers for women and African American motorcyclists.
Completed eight solo cross-country tours and served as a civilian motorcycle dispatch rider for the U.S. Army during World War II.
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 2014
AMA Grand National Cross Country Champion (1990, 1991, 1992, 1996, 1997)
AMA National Hare Scrambles Champion (1990, 1991, 1993, 1995)
Categories :
Off-Road
Inducted 1998
1940 Daytona 200 Winner
Categories :
Dirt-Track
Inducted 1999
1960s AMA Dirt Track Racer, Distributor
Categories :
Dirt-Track
Inducted 1998
1910s Class A Racing Champion
Won 1914 FAM 300-Mile National Championship race in Savannah, Ga.
Categories :
Dirt-Track
RoadRacing
Inducted 2015
Played a significant role in Harley-Davidson's revival in the 1980s and '90s
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Inducted 2001
Legendary race tuner. In the 1960s, his rider, Elliott Schultz, dominated Ascot. Later sponsored Wayne Rainey and Eddie Lawson.
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 2004
Long-time successful AMA Flat Track racer and ambassador of the sport.
Categories :
Dirt-Track
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 2008
1962 and 1963 500cc World Motocross Champion. Member of Sweden's championship-winning Motocross of Nations team in 1961 and 1962.
Categories :
Motocross & Supercross
Inducted 1995
Motorcycle dealers since 1938 and long-standing officers of the Pueblo Motorcycle Club.
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 2003
The last Class A National Champion.
Won 9 AMA National titles from 1933 to 1938.
Categories :
Dirt-Track
Inducted 2016
been a member of the Motor Maids and the AMA since 1946, she has ridden nearly 700,000 miles
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Inducted 2013
Founders of the Ride For Kids fundraising rides.
Founders of the Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation
Helped raise tens of millions to search for a cure to pediatric brain tumors
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Inducted 2000
Father of modern-day drag racing.
Eight-time drag-racing champion.
First rider to top 200, 210, 220 and 230 m.p.h.
Still holds record of 6.06 seconds at 235 m.p.h.
Categories :
Specialty Competition
Inducted 2001
Won the inaugural Superbowl of Motocross race at age 16
Winner of 11 AMA Nationals
Categories :
Motocross & Supercross
Inducted 2005
Originator of televised "Superbikers" competition, precursor to Supermoto.
Promoter of motocross and road race events and co-founder of Motor Cycle Weekly.
Categories :
Dirt-Track
Ambassadors & Industry
Specialty Competition
Inducted 1998
Member of the famed "Indian Wrecking Crew".
Winner of the last single-day AMA Grand National Championship in 1953.
Categories :
Dirt-Track
Inducted 2003
Swept the 250cc Trophee des Nations &
500cc Motocross des Nations
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Inducted 1998
1930s AMA Hillclimb Champion
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Specialty Competition
Inducted 1998
1930s-'50s AMA Hillclimb Champion
Categories :
Specialty Competition
Inducted 2007
Five-time ISDT gold medal winner.
Motorcyclist magazine All-Star Award recipient.
Cycle News columnist.
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Off-Road
Inducted 2017
1983 and 1984 WERA National Endurance Champion
1996 WERA National Challenge Series 125cc Grand Prix Champion
Co-founded and manager of Team Hammer
Founded and publisher of Roadracing World & Motorcycle Technology magazine
Founded Roadracing World Action Fund charity
Served on AMA Board of Directors
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Inducted 2009
Founded Works Performance Products.
Pioneer in suspension technology.
Products used in off-road, all-terrain vehicles and aerospace application.
Categories :
Design & Engineering
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 1999
1960s AMA TT Racer, aftermarket parts businessman
Categories :
Dirt-Track
Inducted 1998
Racer
Historian
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Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 2002
1916 cross-country ride proved to the U.S. military that women were fit to serve as dispatch riders.
Were the first women to make the transcontinental journey on two solo motorcycles.
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 1999
Drag Racing Champion, Manufacturer, Team Owner
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Ambassadors & Industry
Specialty Competition
Inducted 1999
Land Speed Record Holder, Road Racer, Dealer
Categories :
Dirt-Track
RoadRacing
Specialty Competition
Inducted 1999
Fairing and Motorcycle Designer, Innovator, Racer
Categories :
Design & Engineering
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 2019
Founded Colorado’s Rocky Mountain Trials Association
Founded North American Trials Council
2005 Inducted into NATC Hall of Fame
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Inducted 2007
President of the California Off-Road Vehicle Association, which he greatly expanded.
Lifelong activist for off-road riders.
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Ambassadors & Industry
Leadership & Rights
Inducted 1998
1910s, '20s Class A Racing Champion.
Categories :
Dirt-Track
Inducted 1998
1910s, '20s Class A Racing Champion
Categories :
Dirt-Track
RoadRacing
Specialty Competition
Inducted 2019
1970 Opened Dale's Hogs at age 18
1974 Started Harley-Davidson dealership in Mount Vernon, Ill.
1999 Relocated dealership to Maggie Valley, N.C.
2002 Opened Dale’s Wheels through Time Museum
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Inducted 2003
Motorcycle adventurer and author who founded Easy Motorcycle Riding Schools, Inc. and published a training manual of same name. First Vice President of Women's International Motorcycle Association.
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Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 1998
1930s AMA Class A Racing Champion
Categories :
Dirt-Track
RoadRacing
Inducted 2004
Motorcycle enthusiast helping the antique sport thrive and grow through ‘Walneck’s Cycle Trader’ magazine.
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Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 2003
Midwestern dealer.
Event promoter largely responsible for success of the AMA-sanctioned Peoria TT.
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 1999
1984, '85, '88-'90 AMA Motocross Champion
1985, '87 AMA Supercross Champion
Categories :
Motocross & Supercross
Specialty Competition
Inducted 1998
1940s, '50s Class C Racing Champion
Categories :
Dirt-Track
Off-Road
Inducted 1999
1974, '75 AMA Motocross Champion
1976 AMA Supercross Champion
Categories :
Motocross & Supercross
Inducted 1998
1910s, '20s Class A Racing Champion
Categories :
Dirt-Track
RoadRacing
Inducted 2000
Legendary Harley-Davidson tuner.
130 wins and 13 Grand National Championships.
Categories :
Dirt-Track
Inducted 2001
1963 Daytona 200 winner
Finished 1963 ranked third in AMA Grand National points.
1965 winner of Loudon, Indianapolis and Springfield Nationals.
Categories :
Dirt-Track
RoadRacing
Inducted 2014
Founder, White Brothers Cycle Specialties in 1975
AMA National No. 80 from 1974-76
World Vet MX Senior Champion in 1990
Founder, World 4-Stroke Championship and World Vet MX Championship
Founder, owner and curator of Early Years of Motocross Museum
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 1998
Racer.
Dealer.
Sponsor.
AMA Official.
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 2012
Roadrace starter for decades
Categories :
Dirt-Track
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 2001
Dealer, tuner, sponsor in AMA Class C races.
Epecially well-known for his role in numerous Bonneville speed records.
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Specialty Competition
Inducted 2004
Over 50 years of active involvement, leadership and excellence in motorcycling. Recipient of the AMA Bessie Stringfield award, Golden Life Member of the Motor Maids, AMHF Board Member.
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 2006
Former dirt track racer, long-time dealer, supporter of numerous racers and ambassador for the sport
Categories :
Dirt-Track
Ambassadors & Industry
Inducted 1999
Jack Pine Enduro Winner
International Six Day Trials Competitor
Categories :
Off-Road
Inducted 2001
Superbikers champion, winner of AMA Motocross Nationals, Supercross and Road Race events
1982 AMA Pro Athlete of the Year
Pioneered Christian Ministry for Pros
Categories :
RoadRacing
Motocross & Supercross
Inducted 1998
Cross-Country Record Holder, Engineer, Hillclimber
Categories :
Dirt-Track
Specialty Competition
Inducted 2000
The first to cross the United States on a motorcycle in 1903 on a 90cc California.
Categories :
Ambassadors & Industry
Specialty Competition
Inducted 2000
Tuner, product designer and developer
Categories :
Design & Engineering
Inducted 1999
AMA President, 1981-99
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Inducted 2000
Wisconsin state senator and motorcyclist rights advocate at the state level.
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Ambassadors & Industry