Ben Branch
August 25, 2021
The Fuji Go Devil mini scooter was marketed as a suitcase motorcycle that you could theoretically fold up and take with you on a plane, then unfold after your flight so you had instant transportation…
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Ben Branch
August 22, 2021
This is a 1970s-era motorcycle safety film that’s narrated in English but appears to have been filmed in Germany and Northern Italy. The primary rider throughout the film is on a BMW R90S and…
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Ben Branch
August 19, 2021
This is the Baak Moon, it’s a comprehensively rebuilt Triumph Bobber created by the European company’s new American base of operations. As a result it features a slew of WWII-era American design choices –…
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Ben Branch
August 16, 2021
Airheads like this BMW R 65 have become a popular choice with custom motorcycle builders everywhere from Paris to Perth and just about everywhere in between. It wasn’t that long ago that you could…
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Ben Branch
August 10, 2021
This 1970 Triumph Bonneville TR120 has a considerably more interesting history than most, it was first owned by legendary stuntman and off-road racer Bud Ekins before being bought by Steve McQueen through his company Solar…
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Ben Branch
August 8, 2021
This short film offers an excellent 15 minute history lesson into one of the internal combustion engine’s simplest but most important parts: the humble spark plug. The first patents for what we would today…
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Ben Branch
August 6, 2021
Despite the fact that the Indian Chief tends to get more adoration from the general motorcycle population, it was the Indian Scout that did much of the heavy lifting on the early race tracks…
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Ben Branch
August 3, 2021
The Cagiva VX Traveller is a one-off custom motorcycle built by the founder of Venier Customs, Italian designer Stefano Venier, for his own personal use. Since Venier Customs was founded in 2012 they’ve developed…
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Ben Branch
July 29, 2021
There are countless memorable pictures of Steve McQueen, though few are more memorable than the images of him on his Solex 3800 moped riding at the Circuit de la Sarthe, home of the 24…
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Ben Branch
July 28, 2021
This 1972 BMW R75/5 has been painstakingly rebuilt into an evocation of one of the most important motorcycles in the history of BMW Motorrad – the original R75/5 enduro customs developed by BMW in…
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Ben Branch
July 23, 2021
MoonBikes were invented by Nicolas Muron, a former aeronautical engineer at Dassault Aviation, who was struck one winter by the fact that human mobility was still severely impacted by heavy snowfalls. Snow mobiles and…
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Ben Branch
July 19, 2021
The motorcycle you see above was the first Husqvarna ever bought by Steve McQueen, he would later become synonymous with the brand and famously rode a Husqvarna in the cult classic motorcycle film “On Any…
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