The Crocker Story
The Real Story of America’s Legendary V-Twin, the Crocker motorcycle, the fastest American road motorcycle for 20 years…
John Surtees
Remembering World Champion John Surtees, the only man to win the World Championship on two and four wheels.
The First ‘Triton’ – A Prewar Cafe Racer
The World's First Triton Motorcycle was built by the man who invented the Norton Featherbed frame!
Denis Sire; ‘Baron d’Holbach’
The premier pinup/vintage vehicle artist Denis Sire exhibits his new series in Paris.
3 Days in Paris: Retromobile 2012
Paris in February? Oui, as that's when the awesome Rétromobile show happens.
The Blue Box
The Audi Museum in 2009 only exhibited DKW motorcycles, but a visit to the basement revealed a treasure trove of unseen…
Book Review: ‘Private Owner’
Les Higgins was bitten by the racing bug while still a schoolboy, and spent his modest weekly wages buying used racing…
Legend Of The Motorcycle 2007 (Friday)
Perhaps the most important motorcycle event since the Art of the Motorcycle show at the Guggenheim Museum, the Legend…
More Vintage Racing Douglas
Not much is heard these days about Douglas motorcycles, but for two decades their motorcycles were ranked among the…
Those Dapper Racers of the 1920s: Vivian Prestwich
John Vivian Prestwich was the heir to the J.A.P. engine manufacturing dynasty, and cut quite a figure at Brooklands in…
Brooklands Relived 2005: David Vincent
David Vincent won his Gold Star in 1936 aboard a two-year old Velocette KTT MkIV, on of only 29 riders to win the award…
Welcome to The Vintagent!
Thoughts from 2006 on what TheVintagent is about, from its founder, Paul d'Orleans
A Visit to Lewis Leathers (2013)
Derek Harris never intended to own Lewis Leathers, yet spent years researching lost patterns and designs as a mediator…
Steve McQueen’s Desert Machine
The King of Cool had a recipe for desert sleds that is still rockin' the streets and dirt track of the SoCal deserts,…
Hugo Eccles and the XP Zero
The XP Zero is a superb piece of design: it retains traditional styling cues, then lpunctures them with voids,…