This is another one of those fantastic old photographs featuring an old motorcycle which I know nothing about, rather than venturing a guess as I usually do I’m just going to throw it right to the comments and ask for your best guesses, with extra points for people who can tell me who the rider is.
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Although you may not know it at first glance, the Royal Enfield Classic 500 has a fantastic ’60s style trials bike hidden underneath its respectable looking exterior. The man who discovered the transformative ability of the…
The original Jaguar E-Type was in production from 1961 till 1975, a total of 14 years, at which time it was replaced by the somewhat controversially-styled Jaguar XJ-S. The team at Eagle have been restoring…
The Harley-Davidson X90, commonly referred to as the “Shortster” was a mini Harley two-stroke built by an Italian company that started out making fighter aircraft during the First World War. The 1970s are remembered…
The Hercules W2000 was the first production motorcycle to be powered by a Wankel rotary engine, it showed the world that rotary-powered motorcycles were a possibility, a possibility that Norton would later develop into a…
This one hour documentary shows the restoration of a WWII era De Havilland Mosquito, from an empty abandoned shell to a fully equipped aircraft taking off for its first test flights since the early 1960s…
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…
