Ben Branch
July 7, 2011
Powered parachutes are one of the safest ways of taking to the air, the parachute acts like a wing and provides lift but it also provides a huge safety benefit, if anything goes wrong you already have a deployed parachute overhead, so you just drift down to the ground.
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Ben Branch
July 7, 2011
McDeeb is the nickname given to Fabrizio Di Bella, a lover of British motorcycles based in Italy. The official name of the motorcycle builders business is Classic Farm Motorcycles however
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Ben Branch
July 6, 2011
Originally titled the Aermacchi-Harley Davidson RR350, Harley had bought control from Aermacchi in 1974. The RR350 is a master-class in ’70s bike design, I’d love to see Harley Davidson step away from its almost Adderall-level focus on lumbering V-Twins.
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Ben Branch
July 5, 2011
Both George Jetson and I want one of these cars, badly.
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Ben Branch
July 5, 2011
This is the first bike out of the new garage Fuel Bespoke Motorcycles based in Barcelona, Spain. The bike started life as a stock BMW R100 RT, Karl then spent 3 months transforming the bike into what you see here, a beautiful vintage single seat scrambler.
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Ben Branch
July 4, 2011
Only 12 of these magnificent busses were built in 1950, GM used the Futurliner in the “Parade of Progress” exhibit which toured the country extensively. Not many of them are left and in 2006 a restored Futurliner was sold at auction for $4,000,000 USD.
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Ben Branch
July 1, 2011
John Ryland is a remarkably talented bike builder, he discovered bikes later in life than most and is more than making up for lost time. After recently losing his job in an advertising firm he decided to step up his bike + design business and make a real go of it.
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Ben Branch
July 1, 2011
If you grew up in the 70s or 80s the General Lee was far more important to you than girls, money or food. The orange Dodge Charger with its doors welded shut was the stuff of legend,
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Ben Branch
June 30, 2011
We’ve got both part 1 and part 2 here, these films feature the 1959 Sandusky Speedway Supermodified Stock Car qualifying and race with original commentary. It’s a shame they don’t still race like this really, the drivers are all blue-collar workers…
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Ben Branch
June 30, 2011
Edwin is a clothing label favoured by many motorcycle aficionados, especially those in the custom-but-not-a-chopper scene. This film was produced in conjunction with Blitz Motorcycles out of France and features some of Blitz’s bikes…
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Ben Branch
June 29, 2011
This Norton Manx replica looks like a hell of a daily rider, it’s owner has listed it for sale as he has too many bikes in the garage and his wife is getting antsy, his loss looks to be someone else’s gain.
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Ben Branch
June 29, 2011
Says it all really. Discovered via Vintage Racers.
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