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The Adventures of Zaya

Ben Branch February 23, 2015
  • Motorcycles
  • Photography
  • Women

In Venus Veritas is a new website dedicated to showcasing women in the typically male-dominated worlds of cars, motorcycles, boats, planes and anything else…

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Pistol Packin’ Mama and the WASPs

Ben Branch December 28, 2014
  • American
  • Military
  • Photography
  • Women

Pistol Packin’ Mama was a B-17 Flying Fortress that saw use during the Second World War as a training aircraft for female pilots known…

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2015 Ladies Who Ride Calendar by MotoLady

Ben Branch November 26, 2014
  • American
  • Gear
  • Home
  • Photography
  • Women

Most of you who spend a significant amount of time perusing the corner of the internet dedicated to motorcycles will already be familiar with…

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Winnipeg Roughriders Motorcycle Club

Ben Branch October 11, 2014
  • American
  • Art
  • Motorcycles
  • Photography
  • Wallpapers

This fantastic photograph shows the Winnipeg Roughriders Motorcycle Club at a hill climb near Miami (Manitoba, Canada) in 1945. Most (if not all) of…

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Sophia Loren – Sunflower

Ben Branch August 23, 2014
  • Films
  • Photography
  • Rare
  • Retro

The Italian film Sunflower is best remembered for being the first western movie to be made behind the Iron Curtain, it was partially shot…

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Evel Knievel Wallpaper

Ben Branch August 17, 2014
  • American
  • Motorcycles
  • Photography
  • Retro

“Bones heal, pain is temporary and chicks dig scars” – Evel Knievel Although no one will ever accuse Evel Knievel of being on par…

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Vintage Drag Racers

Ben Branch July 4, 2014
  • American
  • Cars
  • Drag Racing
  • Photography
  • Vintage

These early drag racers popped into our email inbox last week with a request to find more information on them. It’s thought that the…

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August and Fred Duesenberg – 1925

Ben Branch June 28, 2014
  • American
  • Cars
  • Classic Cars
  • Engineering
  • German
  • Photography

August and Fred Duesenberg were two of the leading lights of the American automobile revolution, the men were self-taught engineers who started out building…

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Hasselblad Print

Ben Branch June 16, 2014
  • Art
  • Cameras
  • Home
  • Photography

For the uninitiated, Hasselblad is a Swedish manufacturer of medium-format cameras that have been in operation since the mid-1800s. The company started life as…

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Jenny + Heidi by Lanakila MacNaughton

Ben Branch June 7, 2014
  • American
  • Art
  • Motorcycles
  • Photography

Jenny + Heidi is a series of photographs by Lanakila MacNaughton – the talent behind The Women’s Moto Exhibit. One of the standout features…

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Railroad Tracks Wallpaper

Ben Branch April 19, 2014
  • Art
  • Photography
  • Wallpapers

This stunning wallpaper was sent in by a regular reader earlier this week, we don’t have a whole lot of information to go on…

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Board Track Medic

Ben Branch April 13, 2014
  • American
  • Board Trackers
  • Main
  • Photography

The above image presents a bit of a mystery, it appears to show a medic or doctor attending to a man who has clearly…

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