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Buy Your Own Vintage Sprint Racing Team “The Peril Speed Equipe” – £12,000 to £16,000

Ben Branch October 12, 2019
Yellow Peril, Scarlet Peril, and Blue Peril Sprint Racing Triumph
  • British
  • Custom Motorcycles
  • Motorcycles

Incredibly, all three of these motorcycles are coming up for sale with Bonhams on the 19th of October with an estimated hammer price of…

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The Only Surviving Factory-Built Custom Triumph Strongbow Flat Tracker

Ben Branch October 11, 2019
Triumph Strongbow Flat Tracker
  • British
  • Custom Motorcycles
  • Motorcycles

This is one of just 6 or 7 factory-built Triumph Strongbow flat trackers made in the late 1970s to compete in a series sponsored…

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The Only One Ever Made – Factory-Built 1981 Triumph TS8-1 Prototype

Ben Branch October 8, 2019
Triumph TS8-1 Prototype Fairing
  • British
  • Motorcycles
  • Triumph

The Triumph TS8-1 Prototype was released as a last-gasp effort by the struggling British motorcycle marque in 1981 as a touring motorcycle to compete…

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A Japanese-British Racer – A 1970 Rickman Metisse-Suzuki 500 Titan

Ben Branch October 5, 2019
Rickman Metisse-Suzuki Side
  • British
  • Motorcycles

This is an original Rickman Metisse-Suzuki 500 Titan, one of the earlier Japanese-engined road racing Rickmans. The combination of reliable, high-output Japanese motorcycle engines…

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The Amazing One Wheeled Vehicles Of Inventor Charles F. Taylor

Ben Branch October 4, 2019
Taylor One Wheel Vehicle
  • American
  • Motorcycles

Inventor Charles F. Taylor’s one wheeled vehicles are a fascinating automotive “what if?” that never saw the required development time or resources devoted to…

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A Rare 1964 Aermacchi Harley-Davidson Race Bike

Ben Branch October 3, 2019
Harley-Davidson Aermacchi Race Bike
  • Harley-Davidson
  • Italian
  • Motorcycles

The Harley-Davidson Aermacchi era was an early pre-cursor to both the Buell era and the current era where we see Harley-Davidson branching out into…

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A Historically Significant Project Motorcycle – An Early Egli-Vincent Black Shadow

Ben Branch October 2, 2019
Egli-Vincent Black Shadow
  • British
  • Motorcycles

This Egli-Vincent Black Shadow is a project motorcycle that’ll take a fair amount of work and parts to get back into road-going form. That…

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An Electric Scrambler by Droog Moto

Ben Branch September 30, 2019
Electric Scrambler Rear
  • American
  • Custom Motorcycles
  • Motorcycles

This electric scrambler by Droog Moto started life as a Brammo Empulse R, one of the most important electric production motorcycles of the modern…

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A BMW R100RT Heirloom Custom by Other Life Cycles

Ben Branch September 30, 2019
BMW R100RT Custom Side
  • BMW
  • Custom Motorcycles
  • Motorcycles

This BMW R100RT is a family heirloom of sorts, it belongs to Sam, a Texan with a lifelong relationship with this BMW and a…

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The Search – A Short Film Presented by The Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride

Ben Branch September 29, 2019
The Search - A Short Film Presented by The Distinguished Gentleman's Ride
  • Films
  • Motorcycles

This is the latest film from the team at Stories of Bike, it’s been made in collaboration with The Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride, a global…

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This Was “On Any Sunday” Director Bruce Brown’s 1967 Triumph Mountain Cub

Ben Branch September 26, 2019
Triumph Mountain Cub Motorcycle
  • British
  • Motorcycles

This 1967 Triumph Mountain Cub was bought by On Any Sunday Director Bruce Brown shortly after the runaway success of his seminal surfing film…

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A Custom BMW R80ST by La Motocicletta

Ben Branch September 24, 2019
Custom BMW R80ST 2
  • BMW
  • Custom Motorcycles
  • Motorcycles

The BMW R80ST is one of the rarer and more unusual motorcycles from the German marque’s 1980s catalogue. It’s essentially a more street-oriented version…

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