Photograph courtesy Michael Lichter. Day five of Motorcycle Cannonball 2018 has been completed and the race has now officially covered 940 miles. Stage five spent the day in the Midwest, traveling fr...
Cannonball riders prove their road smarts by parking as close as possible to what are affectionately known as the “cleanest rest rooms in Vermont.” Photos by Kurt Ernst. Since 2010, the biennial Moto...
Henry Winkler at the 2018 Iola Car Show. Photos by author, unless otherwise noted. As a young boy growing up in 1970s Milwaukee, Wisconsin, I had two heroes, and both happened to ride motorcycles: Ev...
Harley-Davidson LiveWire electric motorcycle. Photos courtesy Harley-Davidson. The powers that be at Harley-Davidson realized a few years back that future profits could well hinge upon being able to ...
From the seller’s description: 1984 Harley-Davidson Ironhead Sportster with rare Classified Motorcycle Co. ‘Vincent’ kit from the early 1990’s. Very good condition overall. Recent Akront shouldered a...
Should we feel bad about driving old cars for their negative environmental impact? John Simister ponders how to reconcile caring for both clean air and for classics over at Goodwood. * The photo abov...
As if it weren’t cool enough to put a pulse jet on a scooter, artist Randy Regier decided to gin up an entire backstory to the Grand Thrust Star 100, complete with “vintage” photos, a kit, and toy re...
The 1914 Wanderer owned by Hans-Dieter Springer (wearing bib number 12). Photo by Matthias Mausolf, courtesy AMC Ibbenbueren. From its start as a bicycle manufacturer near Chemnitz, Germany in 1885, ...
Dave Roper aboard his 350cc 1970 Harley-Davidson ERTT. Photos courtesy Bagamor Media. In 1984, vintage motorcycle racer Dave Roper rode a 1959 Matchless G50 to victory in the Historic 500cc class at ...
2019 Honda Monkey. Photos courtesy American Honda. Once a preferred platform for those learning to ride a motorcycle, Honda’s Z50A “monkey bike” hasn’t been offered to U.S. consumers since 1979, when...
Photo courtesy Mint 400. The signature clouds of dust that once put a halt to Hunter Thompson’s coverage of the Mint 400 could spell doom for the race’s future just outside of Las Vegas if a plan to ...
Photos courtesy the author. We who choose to admire art, and perhaps purchase ones that “speak” to us in some way, rarely have a clue about the tedious journey the piece took to get to our eyeballs a...
Photo by Greg Gjerdingen. The townspeople hear them coming and know they only have so much time to prepare for another horde of two-wheeled travelers clogging the streets with their bikes heavily dec...
Stout Scarab. Photos courtesy Portland Art Museum, except where noted. The advent of streamlining not only enabled car designers to radically experiment with both the style and substance of the autom...
Established in 2000, the Piaggio Museum in Pontedera recently got treated to a full renovation. It’s now, according to Piaggio, the largest Italian museum dedicated to two-wheeled transportation. Tha...
Three generations of the Ness family (left to right, Arlen, Corey, and Zach). Photographs courtesy of the Quail Gathering. With more than 300 prewar and postwar motorcycles on display, May’s Quail Mo...
Images courtesy Indiana Racing Memorial Association. Like many motorsports pioneers, Floyd “Pop” Dreyer pursued speed however and wherever he could. Motorcycle racing, Indy racing, midget car racing,...
Kingston Custom’s White Phantom BMW R/80. Photos courtesy the Petersen Museum unless otherwise noted. On the heels of the successful Harley vs. Indian motorcycle display, which ended its run on March...
Did we just miss the 200th anniversary of the first motorcycle? Over at the Vintagent, Paul d’Orleans presents us with possible evidence for a steam-powered Vélocipédraisiavaporianna, reportedly buil...
1970 Clymer-Muench Mammoth. Photos courtesy Bonhams. Motorcycle historians often cite Honda as building “the first superbike,” yet an obscure model from a largely unknown German brand – with ties to ...
1968 Honda CB750 Four prototype. Photos courtesy H&H. Introduced in 1969, Honda’s CB750 Four motorcycle brought a just-right blend of performance, convenience, and affordability to the masses. Belove...
John Lennon’s 1969 Honda Z50A. Photos courtesy H and H Auctions. Among the dozens of vintage trailbikes and classic motorcycles being offered at the March 3 H and H Motorcycle Auction on the premises...
1951 Vincent Black Lightning. Photoraphs courtesy Bonhams. Although the Jack Ehret-raced 1951 Vincent is not the most expensive motorcycle ever sold, it is the most expensive motorcycle ever bought a...
Of the ways to build an all-wheel-drive mid-engine street machine, the folks behind this GTO took a rather unusual approach with a custom transmission and transfer case ahead of the engine. Engine Sw...
Photo by Karli Watson. Somehow, while we weren’t looking, another year passed us by. With 12 more months behind us, it’s time once again to dust off our crystal ball (Lucite, really, because the good...