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April Issue Trivia! Challenge yourself and try to guess the answers without looking them up. Enter to win an Olympia Seattle Jacket Retail value of $299 SPONSORED BY OLYMPIA DISTRIBUTED BY MOTOVAN This trivia deadline April 20, 2026
1: Name the motorcycle jumper who famously recreated Evel Knievel’s jump of 22 cars at the 2015 Sturgis rally using the same motorcycle: Knievel’s 1972 Harley-Davidson XR750.(Required)
2: In 2013, a new electric motorcycle concept was unveiled — the models known as the PES1 and PED1 — promising an EV launch in 2015, although, after over a decade we have yet to see the concept come to fruition. Name the motorcycle brand that promised these EV models.(Required)
3: In 2022, a rider attempted to break 200 mph in Elvington, U.K., on the rotary-engine powered Crighton CR700W. Although this racer reached 188.347 mph and broke the record for large rotary-engine bikes, which was 172 mph, he was unable to make his goal of 200 mph. Name the rider.(Required)
4: What year did Triumph Motorcycles release the first Triumph Tiger, making it one of the longest-running model names in motorcycle history?(Required)
5: In 1979, Jupiter’s Travels was released. It arguably became the most famous chronicle of world motorcycle travel to be published. Who was the author?(Required)
6: The full-face motorcycle helmet didn’t exist before 1963. What American brand created the first full-face helmet?(Required)
7: Harley-Davidson found themselves in financial trouble in the 1960s, and in 1969, the company was sold to an American company that was, at the time, famous for manufacturing bowling balls. The company was eventually purchased back by H-D executives in 1981. What brand had owned the company during this time?(Required)
8: In 1903, rider George A. Wyman crossed the United States by motorcycle. This was the first time anyone had crossed the U.S. on a motorcycle from San Francisco to New York City, on a 200 cc, 1.25 hp “California” motorcycle. How many days did it take him to cross the country?(Required)
9: Triumph started by bolting J.A. Prestwich (JAP) engines and Fafnir engines into its frames. It wasn’t until what year that Triumph began creating their own engines for production?(Required)
10: Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme or FIM (originally the FICM) was originally founded in the rooms of the restaurant Ledoyen in Paris, before lying dormant for years and becoming active again in 1912. What year was the original FIM established?(Required)

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