"Brough Superior might be one of the most venerated bike brands in the history of motorcycling. But is the brand’s reboot just another high-end custom house taking the mickey with the prices it charges for a build? When the "
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Zen and the Art of Motorcyle Maintenance
"In 1974, Robert Pirsig finally published Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. It had been rejected 121 times. It’s a classic of hip literature, though at the surface it seems pretty square. The book was not really about Zen Buddhism, "
Analog über Digital!
"Do you remember a time when your vehicle didn’t answer you back? A time when you got in, turned the key and all you heard was the sound of the engine? No beeps? No buzzes? No rings to admonish "
Mick Ofield Art
"You may have come across Mick Ofield’s work in the lovely Sideburn mag. Mick is the artist who draws these lovely schematic blueprints in the best 'Ride Fast, Turn Left' magazine in the world. But in an idle moment "
Springsteen: The Boss (of flat track).
"We don’t claim to be aficionados of AMA racing, far from it. Our only knowledge of AMA racing is from a bunch of images and films. But every time we discover a fresh batch of AMA stuff, particularly from "
Dr. Oliver Sacks
"In August last year the world lost one of its great thinkers in the neurologist Oliver Sacks. He was well known for his insightful and best-selling books, for being the real-life version of the character played by De Niro in "
Friday Bike Crush: Custom W- uhini.
"images via DEUS It's a while since we posted a custom build Bike Crush. But sick of the mud and the wet of this English El Niño winter, we were musing and dreaming of dry Californian landscapes, when we "
Why Harley-Davidson?
"Few brands on the planet, in the entire history of commerce, have such a strong identity as Harley-Davidson. But for all that strength of identity, the brand has an amazingly diverse and multi-layered aspect. For some, all that noise and "
Ray Drea: Running in the Harley Family?
"That distinctive Harley styling had long remained a family affair. For fifty years Willie G Gibson (below) – a direct descendent of the Davidson founding partners - had his hand and eye on pretty much everything that came out of those "
Hawgholic: Harley Goes Kabuki and Knievel
"Somewhere deep in the south of Tokyo is a tiny little workshop that is forever Milwaukee. Hawgholics is the passion child of Gaku – one of the nicest fellahs you’re likely to meet and purveyor of some of the most "
Harley-Davidson Expert – Charlie Stockwell of Warr’s
"My first encounter with Harley-Davidson came in the early nineties when I was just a kid. My older sister’s boyfriend, who worked for Harley, would come round to pick up my sister on a variety of machines. Right from "
Yamaha Brand Loyalty & Kenny Roberts
"Brand loyalty is a curious thing. And with Yamaha, there are a few twists in the tale. I was obsessed with Barry Sheene as a kid - many of us of a certain vintage were. But the evil genius to "
Mooneyes: Speed, Stillness and Power
"Mooneyes is all about colour. Flame jobs and metal flake. Soaring make-up jobs. Glistening candy apple. Chrome polished to within an inch of its life. It might be a careworn cliché, or you may never have heard it before. "