TLDR: Sons of Speed Update | March 2026 Events | TW200 | Colorado High Country Loop

Hey riders,

Getting back from Daytona Bike Week, I would like to thank Billy Lane, for allowing me to cover the event. (see story below) The racers and builders I met will forever change my perspective of antique motorcycles and what they are capable of.

I would also like to make a massive shout out to Kayla Yaakov who became the first woman to podium the Daytona 200 at only 18 years old, and she did it in style grabbing third in the final turn after a huge battle.

But the Daytona 200 held not only one ground breaking woman this year, Ella Dreher became the youngest rider ever to compete in the Daytona 200. Both of these amazing women did it on the International Women’s weekend and I could not think of a better way to celebrate.

-Zach, publisher of American Moto Co.

There are motorcycles that impress you with speed, technology, or sheer mechanical ambition. And then there are motorcycles that could easily be mistaken as a tractor.

The Yamaha TW200 belongs firmly in the second group. Read more….

Some rides are famous because of a single stretch of road…but some become legendary because of what happens when you start linking them together.

Colorado is the second kind. Read more…

The Sons of Speed race happens in a strange corner of motorcycle culture.

The premise? - Old motorcycles. No front brakes. An oval track. Riders in open-face helmets and leathers lining up on machines that look like they rolled straight out of a black-and-white photograph.

And if you walk through the pits long enough, you start to realize the race is less about winning than it is about the strange gravity that pulls certain people toward old motorcycles. Read more…

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Keep the shiny side up.

– The American Moto Co. Team