Sunday Cinema: The Kid Auto Race
https://youtu.be/hBkKtXs06zg?t=9 This film, named ‘Kid Auto Race‘, set a couple of significant milestones in cinema history. It was the first time the world ever…
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The Magnificent Bastard by Icon 1000
This bike started life as a 1986 Honda VF1000R although it would have been hard to guess given the modifications to the bike. The lower fairings have been removed and the remaining body work has been sanded back and given and eye catching distressed paint job.
Fighter Jet Landing
This is one of those photographs I can spend few minutes looking at, the sparks and the sense of motion carry through the lens so well in some images and this is a great example.
Steve McQueen – Sports Illustrated
Taken from the August 1971 edition of Sports Illustrated this is one of the most famous photos of McQueen in action.
Honda CB750K Cafe Racer
The Honda CB750 is quite possibly the most “Café’d” bike in history, not that that’s a bad thing, the engine and frame are both…
Stheart Detroit Tee
Detroit has, arguably, had the hardest time of any city in the US over the past 5 years. The economic downturn hit the big automobile manufacturers hard and layoffs, unemployment and plummeting house prices have taken their toll on the residents of Motor City.
Honda CB500 by Steel Bent Customs
Michael Mundy is the owner of Steel Bent Customs based out of Oldsmar, Florida. His garage has a track record for building bikes that are the distillation of modern café racers, I know that term is over used nowadays but it used to refer to bikes that were bought as stock, stripped back as much as possible to save weight and then modified only in ways that would increase performance. Very much like this Honda CB500.
Wallet & Chain by The Lowly Gentleman
This beautiful retro wallet and chain is made by The Lowly Gentlemen, based out of southern California. The wallet is cowhide with a suede interior and offset cream stitching whilst the cord is modelled on vintage hotrod electrical cables and comes with brass clips at either end.
H. W. Libbey’s Electric Bicycle
With the surge in popularity of electric bicycles it’s interesting to note that they were first invented in the 19th century, a number of patents were filed around the same time with this one by H. W. Libbey being the closet approximation to the set up electric bicycles have today.
BioLite Camp Stove
The BioLite Camp Stove is one of those remarkable contraptions that once seen, must be owned. It’s a camp stove with a side mounted thermoelectric module that converts heat into electrical power, it uses this electricity to both power a small fan and power any USB connected electrical device.
Kevlar Jeans by Alpinestars
Wearing jeans on a motorcycle is totally fine, until you come off. Once you become separated from your motorcycle above asphalt, regular jeans offer very little protection, trust me on that, I’ve tried it.
Mele by DP Customs
The guys at DP Customs have a knack for creating hard-tail custom motorcycles that annihilate the stereotypes usually associated with the Harley based bobber/chopper genre and this bike is no exception. Meet the Mele.