BRIDGESTONE MOTORCYCLES

Model years: 1952–1973
Displacements: 350cc, 175cc, 100cc, 90cc, 60cc, 50cc
Origin: Japan (all parts & bikes), USA (late-model bikes)

While many of today's motorcyclists learned to ride on a Bridgestone, the bikes themselves are now fairly uncommon, though not extremely rare. These WWW pages, established Aug 1995, are an archive of information about Bridgestone motorcycles. Your contributions are welcome.

Recent updates:
06 May 2018 - Added Rockford history article
16 Aug 2017 - Added OCR'd PDFs of Australian sales brochures and magazine articles; huge thanks to Ray Kinch for the original scans!

Content hosted here:

Where to get Bridgestone parts
1967 Bridgestone Catalog by Rockford Motors
c. 1968 Bridgestone 90 Sport sales brochure from Australia (PDF)
c. 1968 Bridgestone 100 Sport sales brochure from Australia (PDF)
Articles and info about Bridgestone motorcycles:
- Bridgestone Cycles - A Potted History by Graham Weeks
- 1967 Bridgestone 175 Hurricane Scrambler Road Test from Cycle magazine
- Bridgestone 350 article from Japanese Classics magazine
- Sins of Omission Bridgestone 100/175/350 article from Classic Motorcycling magazine (PDF)
- The Mini Twin Bridgestone 175 article from Old Bike Australasia magazine (PDF)
Bridgestone Frame and Engine Serial Numbers
About the Bridgestone Registry
The Rockford Motors History - rescued from Jim Trader's old website

Links to other Bridgestone-related resources:

Scott Noga's Bridgestone Motorcycle Pages with service manuals, parts catalogs, articles, brochures & photos
Gary Toomer's Bridgestone & Yamaha Motorcycles with some nice photos
netbikes Australia has some Bridgestone content
Kanai's Bridgestone Roadracers with some nice photos

If you want to connect with other Bridgestone enthusiasts online, you should consider joining and posting to the following forums:

Richard's Relics - Bridgestone Motorcycle Parts - Bridgestone restoration guru Richard Clark's web forum with over 1000 Bridgestone enthusiasts
VJMC Mailing List - Since 1995, email-based discussion among 500 subscribers, discussing all vintage Japanese marques
Yahoo! Groups: Bridgestone - Another email-based discussion list, with over 800 members

The owner/creator of this site is Mike Brown. Any technical questions, opinions on the value of your bike, parts requests, etc. should go to Richard Clark, the foremost authority on Bridgestone motorcycles. Use his forum (Richard's Relics; see link above) or his contact information on the "Where to get Bridgestone parts" page of this site.