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Wasp Motorcycles is a motorcycle and sidecar manufacturer based in Berwick St James, near Salisbury, England, that specialises in building competition solo and sidecar machines for motocross, trials and sidecar grasstrack , as well as the Wasp 3 Wheel Freedom for disabled riders.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Wasp 3 Wheel Freedom )〕 Wasp first saw racing success in 1971, when it won the European Championship.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Wasp Motorcycles )〕 Wasp sidecars have been the winning chassis eight times in the FIM Sidecarcross European and World Championship.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title= Sidecar-Cross racing World Champions History of the sport )〕 In 1972, all of the top eight places in the European Championship were riding Wasp outfits.〔 ==History== Wasp was founded in 1968 by engineer and off-road motorcyclist Robin 'Robbie' Rhind-Tutt, who was originally employed by the Ministry of Defence as an engineering apprentice at Boscombe Down.〔 He designed and built a number of off-road motorcycle frames which he used in motocross competitions. Other competitors were interested in Rhind-Tutt's frames and commissioned him to build specialist frames, so he decided to form Wasp Motorcycles Ltd. The company changed its name to Wasp Engineering Ltd in 1997, but continues to trade under the name of Wasp Motorcycles.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Robbie Rhind-Tutt and Wasp )〕 A Wasp/BSA motocross sidecar outfit ridden by former world motocross champion Dave Bickers was used in the 1979 World War II film ''Escape to Athena'', disguised to look like a German military BMW R75. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wasp Motorcycles」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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