The original Cyclone Motorcycle made its mark by doing very well on the board track racing circuits of 1910s through the 1920s. These early motorcycles were originally manufactured by Joerns Motor Manufacturing Company from 1912 through 1917, and ran a 996cc 45 degree V-Twin SOHC, 45 horsepower engine. Joerns Motor Co. sold the original Cyclone for $350. These iconic motorcycles were often painted in canary-yellow, however they were also available in dark blue.

Originally designed by engineer Andrew Strand, the early Cyclone engine was one of the most powerful and fastest power plants in the game, capable of over 160km/h top speed, although the engine lubrication was crude, and it was fragile over long-distance races of 150 km or more - which were popular on the board tracks of the era. 

The Cyclone’s original 996cc power plant’s overhead cams were driven by a vertical shaft with beveled-gear ends, and the cylinder-head had a hemispherical head combustion chamber. All internal bearings on the engine of Cyclone Motorcycles were self-aligning rollers, in an era when many motorcycle engines still used plain bushes on shafts.

The original Cyclone's demise came in 1917, when the Joerns Motor Co. determined that they could not compete with lower cost competitors. The Cyclone’s design was sold to Ignaz Schwinn of the Excelsior Motor Co. and a few Excelsior SOHC racers based on the Cyclone’s engine were built, but it was found Excelsior's Big Valve F-head (inlet-over-exhaust) racer could be made faster and more reliable, and the SOHC project was finally dropped in 1922.

Now, more than a century after its vanishing, the revival of this iconic motorcycle aims to stay true to the nostalgia of the early motorcycle era by reimagining the vintage style of the Cyclone Motorcycle while utilizing modern technology...