About me

Hi! Iā€™m Sergei, and youā€™re reading my website about motorcycle logos. Iā€™m a web designer by trade and a motorcyclist at heart. And also, a self-taught amateur mechanic.

My website is the result of this combination of interests. Here, Iā€™ve gathered all the motorcycle logos I could find and described their history as well as the history of their manufactures. If you happen to know a logo thatā€™s still not on this website, youā€™re welcome to send it to me, and Iā€™ll publish it.

While I have been a motorcyclist for about a couple of decades, my obsession started much earlier. I guess I was somewhere between seven and nine years old when I first saw Bruce Brownā€™s movie ā€œOn Any Sunday.ā€ Or, to be precise, just the final 10 or 15 minutes of the movie.

I was at my friendā€™s house. We were switching from one channel or another until we came across something fascinatingā€¦ I can hardly remember any details of the movie ā€œOn Any Sundayā€ itself ā€“ just an inseparable mix of the sun, bikes on the road and bikes ā€œin flight,ā€ and all sorts of trails ā€“ desert trails, mountain trails, trails along the seasideā€¦ And happy people in helmets. There was something totally cool in everything they were doing. And they possessed a ā€œsuperheroā€ ability to ā€œflyā€ above the ground.

I grew up on a distant farm in Iowa, and my family didnā€™t travel much. In fact, that was the first time I had seen motorcycle stunts and rallies that close.

Mmotorcycles became my hobby immediately. My friends shared my enthusiasm, so we visited a lot of rallies together and were continually discussing the topic. Then, eventually, I became a proud motorcycle owner. When at college, it wasnā€™t uncommon for me to travel around the US and even abroad to visit a rally.

Today, I often spend weekends with friends who share my interest. In my free time, I like to work with my Yamaha VMax in the garage introducing all sorts of upgrades to it. Of course, Iā€™m far from a professional engineer or mechanic, but the books Iā€™ve read and the time spent ā€œupgradingā€ this and other bikes have given me some understanding of mechanical repair.

What has always interested me as a designer was the brand identities of motorcycle makes and models. So, eventually, I decided to make up a collection of motorcycle logos of all times and from all countries. This website is the result of this work. While the collection is already quite an extensive one, I guess, there exist logos that are still not here. Feel free to contact me if you know such a logo!