Ben Branch
August 15, 2011
The Pikes Peak Hill Climb has been running since 1916 and has seen almost every type of vehicle known to man slid around it’s corners from the start at Mile 7 on Pikes Peak Highway at 9,390 ft up to 14,111 ft, covering a climb of 4,721 ft.
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Ben Branch
August 12, 2011
This beautiful Honda CB550 Café Racer by Steel Bent Customs is just about the picture perfect motorcycle as far as I can tell. I am biased though as I love the Honda CB550 even in stock form, so this immaculate café build is an incremental improvement on a motorcycle I already loved.
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Ben Branch
August 11, 2011
Owning and racing a Formula car, especially a car with heritage like this 1961 Lotus 18, is the lifelong dream of many motor racing enthusiasts (myself included).
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Ben Branch
August 9, 2011
This delightful, slightly modified, Puch moped is currently listed for sale over at Britton Bees. The air-cooled 50cc single cylinder Puch was a regular addition to the zeitgeist
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Ben Branch
August 8, 2011
Englishman Raymond Mays was an avid racer and through a deal with a Bugatti importer he managed to finagle himself a Type 13 to go racing in….
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Ben Branch
August 6, 2011
This is Steve McQueen’s 1964 international motorcycle license, it sold at auction in 2009 for an eye-watering $42,700 USD. Click the image to see the high-resolution version and if you want to save yourself a fortune just print it out and spill some coffee on it. It’ll look totally legit.
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Ben Branch
August 5, 2011
Officially known as the SdKfz 2 but better known as the Kettenkrad Motorcycle Tank or “Kleines Kettenkraftrad HK 101” the German motorcycle tank is something of an oddity nowadays.
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Ben Branch
July 31, 2011
You can never have too many rooflines or NASA-type hood scoops.
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Ben Branch
July 29, 2011
If you’ve been hunting around for a suitable end-of-the-world vehicle with the impending and entirely likely US default looming and due as early as next Tuesday, this Series 3 Land Rover just may be your ticket.
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Ben Branch
July 26, 2011
After the 70s meant many things to many people. To me it meant cars, motorcycles and an overwhelming desire to avoid school at all costs. It was that simple time every man experiences in his life before the inevitable interest in the fair sex sets in and ruins everything.
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Ben Branch
July 26, 2011
This 1937 Harley EL Knucklehead is a 6000 mile original, it’s never undergone restoration and somewhat impressively, still features the original white paint.
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Ben Branch
July 24, 2011
This brilliant 7:40 video shows the first lap of the 1975 Formula 1 GP at the Nürburgring, this was the year that Niki Lauda would set the blistering lap record of 6:58.6 during qualifying.
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