The Magnolia Special Roadster is surprisingly not British. Or even European. This unique, compressed natural gas roadster was designed and built by motorcycle designer JT Nesbitt (you may be familiar with his bikes over at Confederate) in New Orleans, development started in 2008 with the hand-built Magnolia Special rolling out of the showroom last month.
In 1932 the Danish government decided to try armouring motorcycles in order to keep costs down, the Danes contracted armour fabrication work to the Swedish factory, Landsverk AB.
It isn’t everyday a Knievel owned Harley XR-750 hits the auction block, sure this might not be an Evel owned bike but his son Robbie has more than lived up to his famous name.
There’s something captivating about these old air-cooled inline 4s, the beautiful bank of cylinders gives the bikes a profile like no other. This bike, the 1926 Ace 1000cc, only saw very limited production and only produced this one model.
Wonder Bikes is run by Jason Wonder in Wichita Falls, Texas, the small but influential garage has turned out some serious head turners over the past few years with this Bobber being my personal favourite.
The happiest times I ever had as a kid were trips to the speedway with the old man, a bucket of stale popcorn and a sip of Dad’s beer, nothing beats it.
The Pikes Peak Hill Climb has been running since 1916 and has seen almost every type of vehicle known to man slid around it’s corners from the start at Mile 7 on Pikes Peak Highway at 9,390 ft up to 14,111 ft, covering a climb of 4,721 ft.
This is Steve McQueen’s 1964 international motorcycle license, it sold at auction in 2009 for an eye-watering $42,700 USD. Click the image to see the high-resolution version and if you want to save yourself a fortune just print it out and spill some coffee on it. It’ll look totally legit.
The Type 9 by Zero Engineering is a far more unique bike than an initial, cursory examination, would have you believe. Featuring multi-link rear suspension, you have to look very closely to see it, at a glance it looks very much like the hard-tail frames also offered by the company.
RustyMetric, the new magazine from the iconic editor of BikerMetric is now officially for sale. The 99c 68-page publication is quite literally stacked with bike related articles