What is "motorcycles"

Usage examples of "motorcycles".

But ever since the end of World War II the West Coast has been plagued by gangs of young wild men on motorcycles, roaming the highways in groups of ten to thirty and stopping whenever they get thirsty or road-cramped to suck up some beer and make noise.

AMA claims to speak for all decent motorcyclists, yet its fifty thousand or so members rode less than five percent of the 1,500,000 motorcycles registered in the United States in 1965.

Just because we like to ride motorcycles, the cops give us trouble everywhere we go.

Angels -- sometimes accompanied by the young children of a member or by the unmarried females who hang out with the club -- often rent a dilapidated house on the edge of a town, where they swap girls, drugs and motorcycles with equal abandon.

He told them to turn around and get out or they would be arrested and their motorcycles impounded, chained together six at a time, and drug off.

He had even heard stories about motorcycles being driven in and out the front door.

Some practice burglary, and others strip cars, steal motorcycles or work erratically as pimps.

Angel was born, it was lost in the history of some obscure southern California military base until Hollywood made it famous and also created the image of wild men on motorcycles -- an image that was later adopted and drastically modified by a new breed of outcasts that not even Hollywood could conceive of until they appeared, in the flesh, on California highways.

There was absolutely no precedent, in the years after World War II, for large gangs of hoodlums on motorcycles, reveling in violence, worshiping mobility and thinking nothing of riding five hundred miles on a weekend.

There is no status in the middle, and people who are serious enough about motorcycles to join an AMA club will not take rejection lightly.

Registration records describe the vehicle as a black 1957 Ariel Cyclone motorcycle, a model that resembles Triumph motorcycles of the same era.

Why would anyone leave three motorcycles, apparently functional, out here in the middle of nowhere?

He was barely out of sight before more motorcycles appeared at the top of the hill.

Most of the motorcycles were equipped with riding pegs for the drivers to rest their boots on for comfort, but a couple of the Harleys had floorboards to accommodate passengers.

In triumph, the old man gave a shout in Latin as the beast began to fall behind the motorcycles, and then receded into the distance.