PIONEERING MACHINES FROM THE BUNCH FAMILY COLLECTION on Exhibit Now at the Petersen Museum Richard Bunch is a friend and his entire collection of only American Made motorcycles resides in a secret location in Northern California. His assembly of over 100 magnificent examples of various American Manufactured was curated by another good friend, Don Whalen. […]
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Charlie’s ’51 EL Charlie’s a wild man with a long flapping gray beard. At 65 he screams through the black hills of South Dakota on and 1946 Knucklehead trying to out run the winter. He hit a rusting, riveted guard rail recently, shattering his leg, which was pinned but wouldn’t heal. The doc pulled the
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Another Victory in Kansas as Governor Signs into Law Bill to Ease Titling Procedures for Antique Vehicles—Congratulations! Another win in Kansas! Governor Laura Kelly signed into law SAN-supported legislation (H.B. 2595) to allow vehicles registered as “Antique” which are 60 years old or older the ability to forego a VIN inspection when applying for a
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from https://www.hagerty.com by Charlotte Vowden A shedload of surprises: Discovery of huge fuel-can stash reveals 500 rare artifacts Editor’s note: In the interests of preserving the authentic whiff of petrol that pervades this remarkable story from our U.K. colleagues, we have made only slight concessions to an American lexicon. All quotations remain untouched. Alan Pooley’s
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SPEAKING OF DISCOVERIES—Bikernet Australian Correspondent recently toured northern California in search of rare motorcycles and exotic tattoo talents. Here’s her report: Whilst travelling north toward san fran, stopped at a rest stop, I saw these two bikes parked. I could not resist the call of the chrome or the tinkling song of the cooling engines, so
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The Bikernet official Curator, Don Whalen, recently ran across this 1913 Sears during a swap and trade transaction. The seller mentioned in passing, “This bike was featured in Ripley’s Believe It or Not.” Don was a childhood fan of this publication. “You’re kidding,” he said. “Nope,” the seller said, “here’s the clipping.” The story behind
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The motorcycling world loves a ‘barn find,’ an old, obscure machine wheeled out of the woodwork for the first time. And this is one of the biggest revelations of recent years. It’s a 1930 Henderson that was customized before WW2 by a fellow called O. Ray Courtney and fitted with ‘streamliner’ bodywork. One night in
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Back when the Transcontinental Railroad’s golden spoke was still gleaming, the industrial East and the wild West linked by the locomotive, and a young United States still recovering from a bloody Civil War, two books brought relief, comfort and hope across the country. One would be the Bible, the other the Sears mail-order catalog. Founded
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The steam-bike (wonder why it never caught on): Antique motorcycle expected to break world record price at auction It is a bike whose inventor was once arrested for riding it but later released when police couldn’t work out what crime he had committed. And with a record like that it’s not hard to see why
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