We all know that work on electric cars and alternative-fuel vehicles really ramped up during the Seventies and early Eighties as a response to the gas crises, but one of the largest investments in hy...
Frank Westfall riding his 1912 Henderson 4. Photos courtesy Motorcycle Cannonball. On September 10, 90 vintage motorcycles, ranging in age from 100 to 106 years old left Atlantic City, New Jersey wit...
Reader Greg Beaulieu forwarded this website that captures the golden age of American Motels, each a different example of mid-century architectural design and tourist trap aesthetic. They’re catalogue...
Bill Rodencal astride his 1915 Harley-Davidson, getting back into the action. Photos courtesy Motorcycle Cannonball and The Vintagent. But why should we be surprised? Previous semi-annual Motorcycle ...
Photos courtesy Motorcycle Film Festival. The 2016 edition of the Motorcycle Film Festival takes place in Brooklyn, New York from September 14 to 17, with screenings of narrative, documentary and exp...
Jason Wilson on set. Photos courtesy The Discovery Channel. Following the airing of Harley and the Davidsons, The Discovery Channel is debuting a new motorcycle-build show entitled Sacred Steel Bikes...
Jason Wilson on set. Photos courtesy The Discovery Channel. Following the airing of Harley and the Davidsons, The Discovery Channel is debuting a new motorcycle-build show entitled Sacred Steel Bikes...
After living and traveling in a VW Bus, an International Travelall must seem like a mansion in comparison. We’ll find out how it works as the Schulte family takes their vintage Travelall with a roof-...
Michiel Huisman, as William Davidson, astride a Harley-Davidson replica built by Alex Wheeler and crew. Photos courtesy of the Discovery Channel. Following up on our phone interview with Bug Hall fro...
By William Hall. Photos by the author. A new summer-long exhibit at Milwaukee’s Harley-Davidson Museum showcases vintage drag cars and motorcycles and celebrates drag racing pop culture from the 1950...
Bug Hall as Arthur Davidson in the upcoming Harley and the Davidsons . Photos courtesy Discovery Channel. Earlier this week, we had the chance to conduct an extensive phone interview with actor Bug H...
Brittney Olson, one of the first women to participate in The Race of Gentlemen and an owner of 20th Century Racing, is co-sponsoring a three-day fund-raising event in Sturgis, South Dakota, to benefi...
1951 Indian Chief Roadmaster. Photo by Dawn Deppi. Motorcyclists tend to be a divided tribe, with loyalties often split by brand, style or even decade of manufacture. Opening on August 20, the Simeon...
Since starting this series in 2014, we’ve received more than a few requests to broaden our horizons and include motorcycles in the $5,000 Challenge. As someone who once counted a bike as his only mot...
Screen grab from Harley and the Davidsons trailer. Filming has been completed and the Discovery Channel has already released the dates, September 5-7, that the three-part, six-hour miniseries Harley ...
Cliff Vaughs. Photo courtesy the Motorcycle Film Festival. We learned of Cliff Vaughs’s passing over the July 4th holiday but knew of his exploits from researching previous articles about Easy Rider ...
A model poses with a 1960 GAZ 69 in a scene from the company’s calendar. Photos courtesy Arbalet Ukraine. Before the collapse of the Soviet Union, Alenka Miroshnyk earned a living as a fashion design...
As part of the celebrations of Santa Pod’s 50th anniversary, the British racetrack’s Facebook page posted a big ol’ set of historic photos from the first days of racing on the abandoned airfield up t...
Billy Lane on a 1915 Harley-Davidson built for Shelly Rossmeyer-Pepe. Photos courtesy of Billy Lane’s Chopper Inc. Billy Lane of Choppers Inc. and Discovery Channel’s Biker Build-off and Monster Gara...
Building the Wall of Death – still image from video below. Mel Stultz, founder of The Race of Gentlemen, has recently completed construction on a new/old Wall of Death attraction, which will be on di...
For the first time in 55 years, Oiler Quint Meland is staged to race. Photography by the author. As the weather warms, the days lengthen and the annual Race of Gentlemen in Wildwood, New Jersey—now h...
It’s shockingly easy for a once-major road to go forgotten, as we see from a Los Angeles Times article this week about California’s Ridge Route Road, supplanted by Highway 99 and later Interstate 5 a...
1932 Brough Superior BS4. Photos courtesy Bonhams. News of eight barn-stored Brough motorcycles rocked the British bike world last year, when the collection of the late Frank Vague was revealed to be...
Photos courtesy Guy Martin’s Wall of Death: LIVE – ALL4, unless otherwise noted. Wall of Death motorcycle tracks have been part of American fairs and carnivals since the very first track appeared at ...
The Van Buren sisters on the road in 1916. Photos courtesy BMW Motorrad USA, Inc. On July 4, 1916, sisters Adeline and Augusta Van Buren set off on a transcontinental journey from New York City to Sa...