Classic British Motorcycle Socks
Description: Enfield Cycle Co. Ltd., like many early motorcycle manufacturers, has its origins in bicycles, but it also supplied firearms parts to the British government’s Royal Small Arms Factory which is likely the source of their 'made like a gun' tagline. It created its brand name simply by combining the rather impressive-sounding 'Royal' and the name of the town in which the factory was located - Enfield, England. Their first motorcycle was essentially one of their existing production bicycles with an engine bolted to the front downtube that was produced in 1901. The company went on to create numerous models over the years, but one of the most notable ones holds the title as the longest-lived production motorcycle design in history - the Bullet.
Description: The original Triumph Bonneville was a 650 cc parallel-twin motorcycle manufactured by Triumph Engineering and later by Norton Villiers Triumph between 1959 and 1974. It was based on the company's Triumph Tiger T110 and was fitted with the Tiger's optional twin 1 3/16 in Amal monobloc carburettors as standard.
Description: Bobber bike against a British flag. The design features a British made motorcycle and Union Jack. The single seat bobber range motorcycle is arguably among the best cruiser motorcycles of the world in 2020. You can't go wrong with Triumph Bobber TFC, neither the actual muscle bike nor the artwork.
Description: AJS was the name used for cars and motorcycles made by the Wolverhampton, England, company A. J. Stevens & Co. Ltd, from 1909 to 1931, by then holding 117 motorcycle world records. After the firm was sold, the name continued to be used by Matchless, Associated Motorcycles and Norton-Villiers on four-stroke motorcycles till 1969, and since the name's resale in 1974, on lightweight, two-stroke scramblers and today on small-capacity roadsters and cruisers.
Description: Birmingham Small Arms Co. Ltd. (BSA) was a major British industrial combine, a group of businesses manufacturing military and sporting firearms; bicycles; motorcycles; cars; buses and bodies; steel; iron castings; hand, power, and machine tools; coal cleaning and handling plants; sintered metals; and hard chrome process. After the Second World War, BSA did not manage its business well, and a government-organized rescue operation in 1973 led to a takeover of BSA's operations. The few business areas that survived this process disappeared into the ownership of other businesses.
Description: By the late 1960s, Trumpets had become a familiar sight on American drag strips, where their lightweight construction and powerful parallel-twin engines made them ideal platforms for serious competition. Racers heavily modified Bonneville and Tiger-based engines with high-compression pistons, hotter cams, enlarged carburetors, specialized exhausts, and increasingly exotic fuels, often installing them in stripped-down, purpose-built drag frames. These British-powered machines competed in everything from relatively conventional classes to wild twin-engine dragsters capable of tremendous speeds during an era when British motorcycles battled American iron and increasingly powerful Japanese machines for drag-strip supremacy.
