Ben Branch
February 15, 2013
The paracord wrapped handle on the Bawidamann Blade POGN is designed to be a usable element in survival situation, it’s a nice touch that makes the knife quite a bit more valuable than just a sharpened piece of steel.
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Ben Branch
February 15, 2013
This famous image shows San Francisco in ruins after the great earthquake and subsequent fire of 1906.
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Ben Branch
February 14, 2013
The Jaguar XK140 is all to often overshadowed by its predecessor, the XK120. Jaguar launched the XK140 at the London Motor Show in late 1954…
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Ben Branch
February 14, 2013
Bremont is British watchmaker famous for creating timepieces that can handle staggering extremes in temperature, air pressure and water pressure, one of the models can even handle being ejected out of a U-2 spy plane at 100,000 feet into -40C at 600+mph. This capability becomes immediately useful the next time the mother-in-law comes to visit.
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Ben Branch
February 13, 2013
Jeff Wolf, the proprietor of Wolf Creative Customs, started building race-specific motorised bicycles for his son a few years back, he decided that the standard frames and engines were unreliable and a little on the finicky side so he started building his own stripped back racers from the ground up.
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Ben Branch
February 13, 2013
The BioLite Portable Grill has the added benefit of being able to singlehandedly recharge your phone or any other electronic device, using nothing but the heat generated by burning wood inside it’d combustion chamber.
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Ben Branch
February 13, 2013
The concept of landing a plane on the underside of a moving airship at altitude it so utterly mad that it instantly becomes an addition to my bucket list.
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Ben Branch
February 12, 2013
We featured the official 2013 Triumph Scrambler last week, in the process of writing that piece I got to talking with Joao Alves of Somos and we pondered what a proper, balls-to-the-wall Triumph Scrambler designed to race across Baja would look like.
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Ben Branch
February 12, 2013
This picture shows what looks like the kind of accident that leaves man (or woman) with a broken leg or two.
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Ben Branch
February 11, 2013
The 1930 Henderson Custom is one of the most stunning art deco motorcycles we’ve ever seen, it’s based on a 1930 K.J Henderson with an inline-4 air-cooled engine, that bodywork is all custom and it’s the sort of thing that would have impressed even Ettore Bugatti.
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Ben Branch
February 11, 2013
Schott is a US based company that have been consistently turning out some of the greatest looking and most iconic jackets ever made by the hands of man. Springsteen loves them, Brando wore them and they’re all made by hand in the USA. That should be enough for anyone.
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Ben Branch
February 11, 2013
This is one of the most action packed vintage racing photos we’ve seen for a while, from the looks on the faces of the 1950s spectators in the background to the just landing on his side to the look on the face of the one racers who’s still upright, it’s an excellent picture.
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