" Images Magneto Photography for Influx Dick Smith is widely known for his knowledge of all things Triumph. Having rebuilt his first engine at the tender age of eleven, he went on to work in the factories of BSA and Norton. "
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SR 500: Poetry in motion
" More creative niceness from California here, namely Long Beach's Lossa Engineering. There's a real sense of drama to this short by Ricki Bedenbaugh. The beautiful noise of the big single and the orchestration of the soundtrack is cut together in "
Harley Davidson Soars
" Rain. Lots of rain. At night. Soaked through, 50-odd miles from my destination and on a lonely road in the middle of bleak West Country moorland. My headlamp was pointing anywhere but at the road, mainly because it was "
Royal Enfield: handmade culture
" Whatever you feel about retro culture in general - and the various obsessions car and bike heads have about all things vintage, you have to admire the craftsmanship represented in this video. It's evident that not all Royal Enfield production "
The Art of Andy Jenkins…
" Andy Jenkins draws bikes and cars nicely. But the other four wheeled vehicles he is interested in are skateboards. He was, after all the Art Director and founder member of Girl Skateboards. Andy also digs the print medium, his self-published "
When two worlds collide…
" We're not sure if there is any concrete connection between bike and skate culture. Both share the fixation on rolling through the landscape, but, of course, with vastly different emphasis. But in California - that melting plot of all things "
The Ubiquity of Belstaff
" Now we kind of dig the whole Belstaff thing. Because over all other ways of wearing motorcycle gear, the classic lines of the brand's products are probably the least offensive. You can ride a motorbike in a Belstaff, be protected "
Guy Martin Onboard
" image via TT3D Ok, so we know the TT was a couple of weeks back and that we all know, at least intellectually, how mad TT riders really have to be. But: we've never seen anything that etches out "
Internationalist!
"words and pictures Liz Seabrook Andy Watkins is a self-confessed motorbike geek. In his basement garage in Bristol sit five beauties: a 1937 Ariel, a Hailwood Ducati replica, a ’66 Harley patiently awaiting attention, a Norton 650 and the apple of his eye, "
Dress up and Drag!
" We approach the whole bike thing as a bit of a giggle. What's not to love - in a boyish, stupid sense of fun kind of way - about riding on a bike with an engine? Sometime there seems to "
Go Little Honda
" Of all the odes to bike culture that have ever emerged across the media platforms, the Beach Boy-penned sixties hit Little Honda by the Hondells is one of the least expected. You might normally associate west coast petroliste cool with "
Godspeed Redux
" Received a very welcome dispatch this morning from CICERO DEGUZMAN JR- bringing news of new collaborations, new books and a very nice new blog format for his very delectable series of pictures that document vintage choppers, their builders, workspaces and "
Friday Bike Crush #3
" We've been obsessed with this bike for months. It's basically , a stripped-down Honda Dominator with the street tracker treatment - that amounts to a a sliced off rear subframe, a big headlight, some nice little extras and loads of extraneous "