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Mele by DP Customs

Ben Branch February 4, 2012
  • American
  • Custom Motorcycles
  • Harley-Davidson
  • Motorcycles
  • Retro

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.

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Schott Perfecto Canvas Motorcycle Jacket

Ben Branch February 2, 2012
  • American
  • Clothing
  • Design
  • Gear
  • Retro
  • Style

Schott have made a name for themselves creating some of the most iconic jackets of the 20th century, Marlon Brando single handedly made the Perfecto line of jackets famous by wearing one in the 1954 cult classic “The Wild Ones”.

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Sportster by Brawny Built

Ben Branch February 1, 2012
  • American
  • Custom Motorcycles
  • Flat Trackers
  • Harley-Davidson
  • Motorcycles
  • Retro

The custom Sportster is one of those types of motorcycles that can really go either way. I’ve seen beautiful examples and I’ve seen garish and raked out hack jobs that’ve made me want to set them alight, just to put them out of their misery.

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Jumbo 9 Ton Steam Fire Engine – Circa 1889

Ben Branch February 1, 2012
  • American
  • Engineering
  • Photography
  • Rare
  • Steam
  • Steampunk
  • Vintage

There’s something captivating about the photograph on the left, even though it’s a still image it still manages to somehow convey both a sense of speed and a sense of noise, even over 100 years later.

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Honda CB750 by motoHangar

Ben Branch January 31, 2012
  • American
  • Cafe Racers
  • Motorcycles
  • Retro
  • Vintage

The Honda CB750 is a venerable beast and is very popular with the kind of motorcycle owners who are never quite finished customising their bike.

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Chip Ganassi Watch by Tsovet

Ben Branch January 31, 2012
  • American
  • Gear
  • Luxury
  • Retro
  • Style

Tsovet Watches have created a limited production run of 51 units for this commemorative design created in conjunction with Chip Ganassi Racing.

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Roland Sands Design Blackline Softail

Ben Branch January 28, 2012
  • American
  • Flat Trackers
  • Harley-Davidson
  • Motorcycles
  • Retro

Roland Sands Design took the newish Harley-Davidson Blackline Softail and built the bike that the designers at Harley would have built, if they didn’t have to answer to middle management and bean counters.

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Strada Bicycles

Ben Branch January 26, 2012
  • American
  • Bicycles
  • Custom Motorcycles
  • Design
  • Retro

Strada Bicycles is a small company that builds unique bikes, using a very well designed online configurator customers can design a simple “around town” bicycle in less than 2 minutes, the order it to be delivered to them.

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Boeing Flying Fortress Cutaway

Ben Branch January 24, 2012
  • American
  • Art
  • Engineering
  • Planes
  • Vintage

The B-17 Boeing Flying Fortress was notorious amongst the German Luftwaffe during the second world war, it’s ability to withstand staggering levels of damage and stay airborne still circulate over 70 years later.

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Anvil Tee by Iron & Resin

Ben Branch January 23, 2012
  • American
  • Clothing
  • Gear
  • Retro
  • Style

Iron & Resin is a Southern California based clothing label with an emphasis on comfortable gear that you’ll wear daily.

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Apollo 11 Vintage Infographic

Ben Branch January 21, 2012
  • American
  • Art
  • Design
  • Retro
  • Vintage

This beautiful, historical infographic-of-sorts was designed by NASA in 1967 to give the general public a better idea of what the Apollo 11 mission was actually going to do, from lift off to lunar landing to splash down in the Pacific.

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Hodaka Combat Wombat

Ben Branch January 20, 2012
  • American
  • Japanese
  • Motorcycles
  • Off Road
  • Retro
  • Vintage

The Hodaka company was a joint American/Japanese company founded in the 1960’s, they were largely credited with creating the trail bike niche and kicking off…

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