Hejira motorcycles were produced from 1981 at Stony Stratford, Buckinghamshire.
This small firm built racing machines using a 250cc two-stroke single cylinder Rotax engine. They developed a twin-spar frame that linked headstock and rear-fork pivot directly, and from which the engine unit hung.
By 1986 single and twin versions in various sizes were available. They had also produced a machine with the fuel tank under the engine, with a prototype hub-centre design.
Although the design was good, lack of finances meant that the project could not be fully developed.
There has also been a Ducati-engined machine raced under the Mick Walker Motorcycles banner.
Sources: Graces Guide, love-wrexham.com, et al
Notes:
1. This machine has a pair of tittles. (The dot that sits above the lowercase letter "i" and the letter "j" is called a "tittle.")
2. James Marchment writes: "HEJIRA, alternative spelling HEGIRA is Arabic, Al Hijrah "The departure" of the Prophet in 622AD from Mecca to "The City" (al medinah, since made that city's name, Medina), "hajara" is a verb "to go away, leave" etc, important enough to mark the beginning of the Islamic Calendar (years don't match ours because based on primitive astronomy. A bike called HEGIRA suggests escape to the country."
Mon Nov 05 2012
jons at hejiraracing.co.uk
Just a short message to say that Hejira is still in business and has been since 1970. Attached are a few of the bikes. More info is available.
hejiraracing.co.uk
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