The following is alist of motorcycle manufacturers worldwide, sorted by extant/extinct status and by country. These are producers whose motorcycles are available to the public, including bothstreet legal as well asracetrack-only oroff-road-onlymotorcycles. The list of current manufacturers does not includebadge engineered bikes ormotorcycle customisers, but the list of defunct manufactures may include some of these if they are well remembered for their historical significance.
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This is a list of companies that formerly produced and sold motorcycles available to the public, including both street and race/off-road motorcycles. It also includes some former motorcycle producers of noted historical significance but which would today be classified asbadge engineered orcustomisers. It includes both companies that are defunct, those that still exist but no longer make motorcycles, and some that were acquired by other companies.
This is adynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help byediting the page to add missing items, with references toreliable sources.
^abThe Triumph brand has had two distinct eras, one as Triumph Engineering Company, then under BSA atMeriden, and the recent one as Triumph Motorcycles atHinckley, with ten years between the two.
^"Norton website". The Norton company closed in the UK in 1976. The company reopened in 1995 in Portland, Oregon, United States, manufacturing replacement parts and eventually new Norton models. The venture eventually required capital and was bought by Stuart Garner who intends to return production to the United Kingdom.
^ab"Vincent Motors". In 1928,Phil Vincent bought HRD and changed the name to Vincent HRD. In 1949, it was renamed Vincent. Production of Vincent stopped in 1955. In 1994, Bernard Li acquired the rights to the Vincent trademark, and in 1996 formed Vincent Motors, USA, which made five prototype motorcycles in 2002. The engine used in these motorcycles has since gone out of production and Li has since died. It is therefore not likely that series production will begin.
