MOTORCYCLES
Thinking Outside the Box: Hossack Engineering
Norman Hossack's radical front fork design reduced weight and made for more…
Those Dashing Racers of the 1920s: C.T. Ashby
You can almost smell the castor oil burning off the hot motor of Cecil Ashby's…
Road Test: 1928 BMW R63
The R63 was an expensive machine when new, and cost about the same as a Brough…
Not Just Skidding Around
Put someone in a SKIDCAR or on a SKIDBIKE and they always come back shaking…
Quail Motorcycle Gathering is Back!
The Quail Motorcycle Gathering is the premier motorcycle lifestyle event /…
America’s First Motor Vehicle Race: 1895
Motocycles seemed a mighty pain in the ass compared to bicycles, and the 1895…
Top 10 Mecum Las Vegas 2022
People just seem to hate their money right now." - Sam Murtaugh, COO of Mecum…
Traveling by Chopper: Charlie Weisel
"Life has a way of pushing us around, and riding a chopper around the world is…
The Harley-Davidson Heritage Collection
The Harley-Davidson Heritage Collection includes nearly 100 beautifully…
Mecum Top 10 for 2022
"The sheer variety is staggering. This year, we fully expect antique and…
(Re)Born in Flames: the Top Mountain Museum
What one never wants to see: a relatively new motorcycle museum atop a private mountain in Austria, totally engulfed in flames. Photos of the disaster on January 17, 2021 at the Top Mountain Motorcycle Museum reached me in minutes, so I could watch almost in real time a precious collection of the world's rarest and most interesting motorcycles simply evaporate. Some of those motorcycles had been subject to Road Tests on The Vintagent, and included the ultra-rare sister of the 1925 Sunbeam OHC Grand Prix racer I had ridden only a few months…
Hypercar Exhibit at the Petersen Museum
the Hypercar exhibit at the Petersen Museum will run 18 months (through June…
‘One Man Caravan’ in ADV:Overland
Robert Edison Fulton Jr. rode around the world in 1932 on a Douglas Mastif, and…
The Spectacle of Speedway
What's it like to race Speedway, with no brakes or suspension, doing 0 to 60 in…