Coping with COVID: the Auction Scene in 2020


How is the auction scene coping with Covid? Sam Murtaugh of Mecum Auctions gives us the story.

From Russia With Love


In the 1970s, Norton-Villiers-Triumph developed plans for a factory in the Soviet Union to build a version of their…

Selling Speed


The motorcycle industry has always 'sold speed' as a primary impulse, while presenting a respectable image. Paul…

The Early History of Indian, Part 3: The Indian Motocycle Is Born


Part 3 of Ken Aiken's re-examination of the Early History of Indian Motocycles. By 1901, Indian was in limited…

Whence Came the Swingarm Frame?


Modern motorcycle suspension was invented by an eccentric, dry-humored Englishman named Harold Willis, way back in…

The Big X and the Big 3: the Excelsior-Henderson Story


The Excelsior-Henderson brand is coming up for sale in Las Vegas this month! Why does it matter?

Freak Power: Hunter S. Thompson for Sheriff


In 1970, Hunter S. Thompson ran for Sheriff of Aspen, Colorado, on a very unusual platform of 'freak power'

Louis Lucien Lepoix


Louis Lucien Lepoix is an unsung hero of modernist motorcycle design, who built his dreams in the metal with several…

1910 Sex Scandal! Jake De Rosier’s Teen Lover


In 1910, Jake De Rosier was the most famous motorcycle racer in the world. While in Los Angeles for the opening of…

Song of the Salt


Lake Bonneville dried up 20,000 years ago, leaving a terrible place for machinery, but that's were we choose to go our…

Kenzo Tada


Kenzo Tada was the First Asian to Compete in the Isle of Man TT, and the first Japanese Motorcycle Racer to Travel to…

Brooklands


They raced for trinkets, enameled copper stars, spark plugs and tires, dotted grainy photos in the press, and a little…

Before the Bandit


In 1967, Triumph's legendary designer Edward Turner came out of retirement to design a special bike to take on the…