The Modern Classics is about the idea of celebrating the motorcycles that created not only the current crop of machines, but the current crop of enthusiasts. These are the bikes that won on Sunday and sold on Monday. These are the bikes that didn't mind leaking a little oil in the '60s, competed in the horsepower wars of the '70s, and cradled the two-strokes that were ridden to extinction in the '80s. Whether at the local dirt oval or the grand prix courses of Italy, these are the bikes that made racing legends out of local home-town heroes.

These are the bikes that made you a motorcyclist!