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Here’s a well-known photo that is often posted from the “Then Came Bronson” TV show… except that is not Micahael Parks. That is stuntman and motorcycle racer Bud Ekins. Besides doing a lot of the riding for Bronson, Bud also did the famous fence jump from “The Great Escape,” and drove many of the Mustang

Our Master of Film Sam Burns sent us a few image recently. The caption Dick Dale. As a kid I remembered Dick Dale and the Deltones, so I asked if it was the same guy. Sam confirmed that it was and we researched Dick Dale with Wikipedia. Birth name Richard Anthony Monsour Also known as

I took a picture of yer twat and showed it to this friend I’ve got who owns a beer and whiskey joint that doesn’t do much business. He said “This twat is so angelic, so fucking different from the relic that my skank ol’ lady sports that never incites jizzness.” He then went really overboard

Music is creativity and creativity is exploration. No wonder there are so many popular musicians fascinated by two-wheels and the motorcycling lifestyle.       “Motorcycle Mama” is a song written by John Wyker and performed by Sailcat. It reached # 12 on both the U.S. pop chart and the U.S. adult contemporary chart in

I think the motorcycles in Popular Science magazine appeared because they were far ahead of cars as a means of transport — better built or more refined and there used to be a lack of roads / highways — hence more reliable than a car in that era. Strictly Men’s Magazine French Doll World of

As you know, Motorcycles inspire me. I can see a bike roll past me on a foggy street and be inspired by it’s lines, the shape of the gas tank or the angry sound of the muffler in the dark. Recently, I spotted this BSA V-Twin and was inspired first by the fact that BSA

George A. Wyman made a name for himself as a bicycle racer, but he reached legendary status when, 119 years ago, he rode a motorized two-wheeler from San Francisco to New York to become the first person to cross the North American continent aboard an engine-powered vehicle. Wait, you might ask. Doesn’t that distinction belong

This is a story about the early motorcycle industry and one of the most magnificent startups unfortunately unable to survive, because of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. The California earthquake of April 18, 1906, ranks as one of the most significant earthquakes of all time. Rupturing the northernmost 296 miles (477 kilometers) of the San

On this date, August 29, 1885, the world’s first motorcycle, the Reitwagen (“riding car”) or Einspur (“single track”), was patented. It was essentially a wooden bicycle, with foot pedals removed and powered by a single-cylinder, Otto-cycle engine. This invention is a key milestone in automobile history, as engines up until this point had only been

This WW2 fire-fighting trike is the strangest, coolest thing we’ve seen all week. –Nile Bijoux During the early 1940s, pretty much every country that had manufacturing capabilities was working hard for their respective war efforts. Some were building planes, guns and tanks while others focused on the locals. That’s where this 1941 Kurogane Model 1

In August of 1897 Charles Metz announced that his Waltham Manufacturing Company was in the process of building a ten-seat machine, which he cleverly named the Oriten (“Ori- ent” plus ten seats equals “Oriten”). Two months later and twelve hundred dollars lighter, the Waltham Company introduced the Oriten to the public on the Waltham racetrack

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I received an email from my old boss, Joe Teresi the other day. It contained rare documents from Indian MC to their dealers, boasting a new sales strategy. He sent me a PDF document, and I had to send it to longtime friend Bob Clark to transfer the images into useable JPEG images. He handled

Editor’s Note: Recently one of our esteemed Bikernet™ contributors sent me a batch of historic Motordrome shots, then a pile of great shots of classic racing bikes from that era. I recently wrote a screenplay, called Splintered Road, about this era around WWI and it’s being looked at in Hollywood. This year one of the

  You hang around folks who love vintage cars enough and you’ll inevitably meet vintage motorcycle guy or gal. They mean well, love all things with oil pumps (and some without) but will take every opportunity to espouse the virtues of the under-appreciated vintage motorcycle world. “You can store a dozen in the space of

A design of Indian engineer Charles Franklin, the Indian Scout was one of Indian’s best designs on the street and track. Franklin became most famous for his work on Indian’s 42 degree V-Twins including the Chief. The first Scouts appeared in 1920 as 37 cubic inch motorcycles, later became 45’s. Where most motorcycles of the

  Motorcycles on Monument Circle are a common site these days, but this photo is dated 1914. It features three men with Yale motorcycles standing in front of the English Hotel & Opera House, which stood on the northwest quadrant of Monument Circle. The building was constructed in three phases, starting in 1880, and was

This custom motorcycle trailer was constructed using an A-7 Corsair II drop tank. It is finished in flat grey with Navy livery, and features include functional lights, torsional stub axles, and 16” wheels. This trailer was previously featured on Bring a Trailer.com in conjunction with a motorcycle, and is now being offered individually at no

After horses and before cars or jeeps, the motorcycle enjoyed a career as the postal carrier’s means of transport. The United States Postal Service relied on horse and wagon for deliveries for generations. Rural mail carriers in particular, faced with large distances and rutted roads, stuck with their equine co-workers well into the 20th century.