Montlhéry 2011: A New Event?

The banked track is an acquired taste: you need 100mph for the top line; then…

Grossglockner Hillclimb, Austria: 2010

A remarkable event in 2010, which I was lucky to attend as the guest of Walo…

Slow Burn: Auctioning the Moto Talbott Collection

It took a blown motorcycle engine to change Nick Smith's relationship with Robb…


The Motorcycle Portraits: John Pera

David Goldman travels the world to interview interesting people in the…

Mama Don’t Take My Autochrome

For 25 years or so, the Autochrome was the principal color photo process…

First International Motorcycle Art Show: 1973

"The motorcycle is a work of art,” claimed curator Goldthwaite H Dorr…

Artist and His Moto Guzzis – Antonio Ligabue

"He bought a motorcycle - a 1937 Moto Guzzi GTV 500 - on which he rode…


The Lost Empire of Leathertogs, Part 2

Leathertogs reached its peak in the mid-1930s: the rise in motorcycle…

The Lost Empire of Leathertogs, Part 1

In this melting pot where industry, speed, and style collided, Leathertogs…

The Mysterious Modernist – Carlo Mollino

“Only when a work of art is not explicable other than in terms of itself…