Isle of Man Scooter Racing – Circa 1970

I never knew that people raced scooters at the Isle of Man, until last week when I discovered this footage and became an immediately happier person. I like scooters. I know that this makes me less of a man in the eyes of hard-core motorcycle dudes but I don’t care. There’s a lot to be said for a 50cc smoke-spewing two-stroke.

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Vintage Corvette Poster

This retro Corvette poster just made my day, the ’58 Corvette is one of the best looking American cars ever made as far as I’m concerned and the gorgeous minimalistic graphic design of this late-50s advertisement does it ample justice.

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First Look: The Black Falcon

Falcon Motorcycles have released the first glimpse of their new creation, the Black Falcon. Based on a Vincent Black Shadow salt-lake racer V-Twin from 1952, the meticulously hand-crafted motorcycle is debuting at the Quail Motorcycle Gathering today (Saturday) so expect the motorcycle blogosphere to light up like a Christmas Tree decorated with yellow cake uranium and fusing hydrogen.

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Hawker Private Jet

$595,000 USD will buy you a modest suburban house in most parts of America. Well, it could buy you a modest suburban house. Or it could buy you your own private freaking jet. I don’t think it’s a particularly difficult choice, I mean the plane has seats that fold into beds and a kitchenette but the modest suburban house can’t fly. 1-0 to the private jet.

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Yamaha XS650 Flat Tracker

1973. It was the year of Elvis’ famous live concert in Hawaii, Nixon was inaugurated for his second term, George Foreman beat Joe Frazier to become the world heavy weight boxing champion, Skylab was launched, The DEA was founded and a young Kenny Roberts won the A.M.A. Grand National Championship aboard a ’73 XS650 Yamaha Tracker.

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