Cafe Racers: Speed, Style, and Ton-Up Culture is a book by motorcycling icon Paul d’Orleans – as the name suggests it offers a detailed look into the history of the cafe racer, all accompanied by stunning photography by Michael Lichter. In recent years the cafe racer has enjoyed a renaissance of sorts, with custom motorcycle builders the…
The Ruck Strap is a design that launched Hold Fast from a small American gear company that no one had ever heard of, to a market leader in alternative photography gear. Each Ruck Strap is made from duck canvas and leather, with a micro-fiber suede lining – it’s 2.3 inches wide to disperse the weight…
The need to carry a laptop, a DSLR and a series of lenses poses a unique set of challenges – and as a result, most people end up carrying two bags. Ona is an American company seeking to solve this problem – they produce high-end bags for photographers from premium materials, and their Union Street…
Amy Shore is a photographer who appeared relatively recently on the automotive scene and has quickly become one of its new leading lights. She’s based in the United Kingdom and it’s almost a certainty that you’ve seen her work before, as she’s been published with Classic Driver, Goodwood, Octane, Evo, Drive, Ramp, Iron & Air…
The Leica R3 Safari was a special limited edition of the popular Leica R3 released in 1976, many credit the R3 with saving Leica as the company had struggled financially in the years immediately prior due to some poor selling models. The R3 was significant for a few reasons, the electronics had been co-developed with…
All Tore Up: Texas Hot Rod Portraits is the work of photographer George Brainard, he’s been the official photographer of the Day of the Drags and the Lonestar Round Up events in Texas since the early 2000s. After years of covering the cars first and people second he began to slowly realise that the people…
The story of Ayrton Senna and his rise to the highest echelons of motorsport reads like a slightly unrealistic Hollywood script – a young Brazilian boy who started life with such poor coordination that he needed medical tests goes on to learn how to drive a Jeep by the age of 7 (without use of…
Stuart Lewis-Evans was an up and coming racing driver and good friend of the young Stirling Moss, this image was taken in September 1953 when Stuart was just 23 years old and it shows him unloading his Cooper 500 Formula 3 racing car at the Crystal Palace race circuit in South London – from the…
Ernest Hemingway once said “There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.” and as far as I can tell, motorcycle hill climbing is about as close to combining all three of Hemingway’s sports into a single activity as it’s possible to get. The rules of the sport…
Wheels & Waves is a new book by photographer Jo Fischer, it’s a compilation of her images from the 2013 and 2014 Wheels & Waves event, held in France each year. The book is 140 pages in length and measures in at 30cm by 21.5cm, it’s printed on 170/QM Lumisilk, it has stitch binding and…
Brooklands was the first purpose-built race track in the world, it was characterised by its broad 30 metre width and 9 metre high banked corners. Many of the world’s speed records were set at the circuit until it was shut down in 1939 – as the gloom of World War II descended over Europe. This…
The significant influence had by women on motor racing, especially in the formative years of the sport, has been largely forgotten and even swept under the rug in some instances. It seems like a shame to let this history disappear into the ether, especially when you consider the enormous odds that these ladies had to…
