Grayson Perry at the British Museum
Sculptor Grayson Perry designed an outrageous Harley-Davidson Knucklehead custom - the only motorcycle ever displayed…
‘Paradise Lost’: Conrad Leach
British artist Conrad Leach explores speed, danger, and British identity in his exhibition at the Gauntlett Gallery in…
The Universal Racing Motorcycle
Dimitri Coste attempts the impossible: racing in many different types of competition (hillclimb, motocross, drag…
Ralph Lauren at the Louvre
A display of 17 fantastic cars owned by Ralph Lauren and on display at the Louvre's Design Museum begs questions of…
2011 Concorso Villa d’Este
It's small and mostly private, but the Concorso Villa d'Este is the most spectacular vintage motoring exhibit on the…
Steam Cycles and History
How we see history changes with time. Electric motorcycles were viewed as irrelevant until recently, so why aren't…
Chanel, Ducati, Revisited
Karl Lagerfeld fully understands the erotic power of old motorcycles, making them essential characters in his short…
The Best Bike BMW Never Made?
BMW’s Remarkable Art Deco R7 is the bike collectors dream About. It was only built as a single prototype, recently…
1911: Indians Sweep Isle of Man TT
Oliver Godfrey rode the first non-English motorcycle to win the Isle of Man TT, and Indians took the top 3 spots - a…
Building a Norton Four
In the mid-1960s, there were no 4-cylinder motorcycles to buy, so riders made one. Mick King tells us how he did it in…
Before the Bandit
In 1967, Triumph's legendary designer Edward Turner came out of retirement to design a special bike to take on the…
Sale of a 1909 Curtiss V-twin
A Curtiss motorcycle sitting atop a garbage pile was like discovering a Rembrandt, or a pile of cash, however one…
Book Review: ‘Illustrated History of the Shickel Motorcycle’
An early American two-stroke capable of pulling a trailer? The Schickel was a technical tour-de-force in 1912, and Ken…
Eugene Ziegler – The Kitchen Master
Incredible models built in Germany by Eugene Ziegler, who worked nightly in his kitchen on 1:4.5 scale models of German…
The Blue Box
The Audi Museum in 2009 only exhibited DKW motorcycles, but a visit to the basement revealed a treasure trove of unseen…
Rocket Cycles! Part 2: Archibald Low
Archibald Montgomery Low invented a television in 1914, concepted digital television and photography, and loved…