Antique Bikes and Motorcycle History

The MOTORCYCLE Australian Exhibit

Brisbane’s Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) opens the world exclusive exhibition ‘The Motorcycle: Design, Art, Desire’ tomorrow, featuring 100 exceptional motorcycles from the 1870s to the present. Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) Director Chris Saines said ‘The Motorcycle’, showing until 26 April, 2021 celebrates 150 years of motorcycle history and included multiple

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Easy Rider at 50

On 4th September 1969, a film was released in the United Kingdom that would have more effect on our little world of custom motorcycling than any other. It was, of course, Easy Rider. Almost exactly fifty years later, it still resonates with us, although its language and ethos may have dated over those five decades.

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1902 ORIENT ENTERS THE CANTINA

This story contains some of the masters of the antique motorcycle history realm, including Mike Parti, who restored it; Don Whalen who brokered it; Bud Ekins, who found it; Mike Bahnmaier who bought it from Mike, and of course, Von Dutch. It also involves Markus Cuff, the willing photographic master, American Iron Magazine, and the

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Bandit’s Cantina Rare Indian Feature for September 2015—1935 Indian Chief

We are going to attempt to bring Bandit’s Cantina members more classics coupled with historic info. We need to be culturally balanced between wild shit, boobs, and something from the other side of the tracks; namely, historic motorcycles. We are very fortunate to bring you a Steve McQueen-owned 1935 Indian Chief from the La Quay

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THE CROCKER LIVES!

      Many consider the Crocker the Holy Grail of historic motorcycles, perhaps worthy of an Indiana Jones. Tales include Crocker hunters fleeing spear tossing natives in remote Pacific islands on the rumor of a machine left there during WWII. Earlier in 2014 a pair of original V-twin Crockers, one Big and one Small

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Triton Vs. Peacock Power

There’s that old, often used joke/question? Why did the chicken cross the road? There’s all kinds of answers aka punch lines. In the case of Jeff Rogers, it took a bit of a spin, the question going, “Why did the Peacock cross the road?” His answer would be, “Well, it didn’t.” Seem Jeff, hailing from

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1914 Feilbach Limited

    Launching its first motorcycle in 1904, the Feilbach enterprise would eventually knock heads, SOHC or otherwise, with another Milwaukee upstart company, Harley-Davidson, although it seemed Feilbach had the upper hand with a better motorcycle. Arthur Otto Feilbach and his brother William tinkered together their first machine within their small home garage.  This was

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A Century Of Speed – Part One

    Editor’s Note: Our author, Louise Ann Noeth (aka “Landspeed” Louise), is a long-time SAH member and a two-time SoCal Chapter Valentine Award winner. The following is a fresh version of her article summarizing racing at Bonneville in anticipation of its centennial, now from the perspective of actually having reached that centennial. The entire

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Vroooooommmmmmmmm!!!!

    Okay, we gotta admit it’s a tiny bit macabre to find a stellar group of antique, vintage and high performance motorcycles on display at a cemetery, literally the last place a bike fan wants to visit.  But there was lively reasoning behind the appearance of 13 “celebrity” two-wheelers at the Forest Lawn Memorial

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Harleys of the Pacific

If you loved V-twins, New Zealand must have been ”Hog Heaven” back in 1943. Suddenly we had shiploads of US military Harley-Davidson motorcycles, swarming up and down Auckland’s Queen St and Wellington’s Lambton Quay. But by about 1945 they’d almost all vanished, taken home by our departing American allies. The Marines and GIs were a

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