We featured the Nortorious by Goldammer Cycle Works earlier this week and it caused all of our regular reader’s eyes to explode out of their faces, bounce off their monitors and land on their keyboards. In other words, it was rather popular. Usually I wouldn’t feature 2 bikes from the same builder in the same week, but I feel like in this case, no one is really going to mind.
Originally built in 2007, the Goldmember was designed with an altogether unique goal, to compete in both the AMD World Championships and to compete at the Bonneville Salt Flats. This meant the bike had to not only look like a show winner, it had to perform like a race winner.
From the outset it seems to me like perhaps all bikes entered into international level competition should have to prove their road or race-track worthiness. After all, what’s the point in a shiny motorcycle that can’t be ridden or raced?
Goldmember represents the 3rd bike Roger Goldammer created using half a Harley V-Twin, like the others he added a supercharger and unlike the others, he added a Nitros Oxide system. A staggering amount of work went into getting this 965cc single cylinder to not only run, but to produce ~140hp without blowing up with fatal consequences at 160mph on the salt.
The bike went onto win the freestyle division of the AMD World Championship 2008, it also won the Artistry in Iron Las Vegas Bikefest/Hot Rod Bike 2008. After this Roger took the bike down to Utah and ran it at 164mph with what I assume was a wide smile under his helmet.
Ben Branch has had his work featured on CNN, Popular Mechanics, the official Smithsonian Magazine, Road & Track Magazine, the official Pinterest blog, the official eBay Motors blog, BuzzFeed, and many more.
Silodrome was founded by Ben back in 2010, in the years since the site has grown to become a world leader in the alternative and vintage motoring sector, with millions of readers around the world and hundreds of thousands of followers on social media.
This Porsche writing desk was handcrafted from American walnut and fitted with 100% original Arctic Silver Porsche body panels. The desk is the work of 3 GJB 17, a boutique French company that specializes in turning vintage car parts into the kind of modern furniture that industrial designers lust after. Only 3 of these desks were…
Tim Caraco has made a name for himself in recent years by capturing the zeitgeist of the 21st century chopper/bobber scene in America, Australia, and Europe. The hardcover book is 148 pages long and it includes a huge array of bespoke photography as well as the work of world class builders like Max Schaaf, Chase…
The Norton Atlas was released in 1962 as the replacement for the venerable Norton Dominator. British motorcycle manufacturers were all targeting the colossal American market, typically by appealing to their love of power and speed.
This 1982 Barry Sheene interview has been largely unseen for the past 36 years, it includes some fantastic quotes from Barry including him remembering a time he had to steal diesel in from a construction site in Munich to get to a Grand Prix in Austria in 1971. It was originally filmed as part of a…
The Small Batch Supply Co. Leather Roll Top Backpack is the first bag we’ve ever featured that has no stitching, and no snaps, buttons, or clips. Small Batch Supply Co. Leather Roll Top Backpack The cleverness of this bag’s design lies in its simplicity, it’s made from a combination of Hermann Oak leather split hide…
Editor’s Note: We’re now in touch with Stephen’s family and they have the negatives safely in storage. At the moment it’s just a matter of them finding time to have a look through the boxes. We also picked up two more leads on some other historically important Britten images. If you have any Britten-related images…
