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Honda CB350F-CB400F Café Racer

Ben Branch April 2, 2012
  • American
  • Cafe Racers
  • Japanese
  • Motorcycles
  • Retro

This unique café racer is a hybrid of sorts, not the Priusy kind of hybrid that smells like lentils, but a hybrid in the…

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Motorscooter Jump

Ben Branch April 2, 2012
  • Motor Scooters
  • Motorcycles
  • Photography
  • Retro
  • WTF

Sure, you might have seen this picture before. But hell, it’s Monday and we all need a laugh. Hit the Facebook share button below if you’d like to cheer up your friends. Or make them cringe.

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Motorcycle Training – Fort Knox 1942

Ben Branch April 1, 2012
  • American
  • Military
  • Motorcycles
  • Photography

The inset text reads “A scout suddenly discovering the enemy flops his cycle to return fire with his Sub-Tommy Gun. Fort Knox, Kentucky, 1942.”

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Kawasaki KZ400 by Motoscoolture

Ben Branch March 31, 2012
  • Custom Motorcycles
  • Motorcycles
  • Retro
  • Vintage

The humble Kawasaki KZ400 is all too often overlooked by custom motorcycle builders which is a shame really as it has mammoth potential.

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Art Deco Motorcycle Club

Ben Branch March 30, 2012
  • American
  • Art
  • Motorcycles
  • Style
  • Vintage

This is one of those beautiful photographs that no one seems to know anything about, I’m going to go out on a limb and guess Atlantic City boardwalk, mid 1920s.

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Marlon Brando – The Wild One

Ben Branch March 28, 2012
  • American
  • Art
  • Films
  • Motorcycles
  • Style
  • Vintage

The Wild One kickstarted a whole generation of motorcyclists, the Triumph that Brando rides in the film is still a hugely popular model for vintage bike enthusiasts.

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Lunacy by Garage Project Motorcycles

Ben Branch March 27, 2012
  • Australian
  • Cafe Racers
  • Custom Motorcycles
  • Motorcycles
  • Retro

Garage Project Motorcycles is a fantastic Perth based custom motorcycle garage run by a chap named Rex, they turn out custom café racers with a healthy dose of approachability and clean, aesthetically pleasing design.

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Jeff Decker’s 1952 Vincent Black Lightning

Ben Branch March 26, 2012
  • American
  • British
  • Design
  • Motorcycles
  • Retro
  • Vintage

When it comes to customising Vincent motorcycles, bike builders have to walk a very, very fine line. One misstep and they’ll have thousands of pitchfork wielding moto-purists beating down their door, baying for blood.

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1964 Works Bultaco 244cc

Ben Branch March 22, 2012
  • Design
  • Engineering
  • Motorcycles
  • Racing
  • Retro
  • Vintage

This drop dead gorgeous 244cc works racer by Bultaco was raced by Ramón Torras in the early 1964 and 1965, right up until his untimely death on another bike at a race in Spain in 1965.

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1974 Norton Dunstall 850

Ben Branch March 21, 2012
  • British
  • Cafe Racers
  • Motorcycles
  • Racing
  • Retro
  • Vintage

One fine day you’ll find me slapping the “bid” button on eBay, on my way to buying a Norton Commando. I’ve always been partial to the 1968 Commando, the one with the nice big drum brake up the front, but I could easily talk myself into buying something just like this.

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Abernathy Kids on their Indian

Ben Branch March 20, 2012
  • American
  • Indian
  • Motorcycles
  • Photography
  • Vintage

In 1913 a pair of young boys bought an Indian motorcycle and set out on a road trip from Oklahoma to New York City, they were aged just 13 and 9 so exactly how they could afford the motorcycle is unclear but I think we can all agree that they had very laid back parents.

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The Dynasphere

Ben Branch March 19, 2012
  • American
  • Cars
  • Design
  • Engineering
  • Films
  • Motorcycles
  • Steampunk
  • Vintage

The Dynasphere was a unique attempt at rethinking the still relatively new concept of personal, motorised transport. And it was insane.

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