Old bikes like this BSA Spitfire Scramber always hold great appeal for me, given the choice of a modern, plastic-fairing covered dirt bike or this, I’d go BSA everytime.
Sure, they might be heavier, less reliable, harder to start and harder to stop but bikes like this have a tangible personality. Some days they’ll be bastards and some days they’ll be saints, as far as I’m concerned, that’s half the fun.
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Inventor Charles F. Taylor’s one wheeled vehicles are a fascinating automotive “what if?” that never saw the required development time or resources devoted to them to make them a viable production vehicle. The single most…
The Ford Bronco Stroppe Baja Edition is undoubtably one of the most desirable special edition American four-wheel drives ever made – somewhere between 450 and 650 were built and no one knows exactly how many…
This documentary first aired in 1984, it tells the story of Stanley Edge who was the original designer of the Austin Seven, in his own words. Edge was well-known for his friendliness and enthusiasm for…
This is the Group 44 Jaguar XJS that won the Trans-Am Category 1 Drivers’ and Manufacturers’ Championship in the hands of Bob Tullius and his Group 44 team in 1978. Trans-Am was separated into two…
The Norton Project is one of the best motorcycle short films on YouTube, it tells the true story of two brothers who steal their father’s prized 1969 Norton Commando from the basement and take…
This is the 2016 Trackmaster Miler prototype, it was developed by the team at Trackmaster to be the ultimate version of the modern Harley-Davidson-based street tracker. Far from being a Sportster with a few bolt…
