January 21, 2021
First Four-Cylinder at the Isle of Man TT
The first four-cylinder motorcycle racer in history wasn't Italian or Japanese,...
January 21, 2021
The Current News: EV ‘Bush Bikes’ Protecting Wildlife
How do you combat wildlife poaching in Africa? Self-sufficient, solar-powered...
January 19, 2021
Research Into Contemporary Outlaws (RICO)
The only collection of 1%er biker club ephemera in private hands is safely...
December 31, 2020
The Current News: Guido Comes to America
With electric power, designers are free to explore new shapes for motorcycles, ...
October 5, 2020
Elektrafuture 2020
The world's first electric motocross series was pulled off right in the heart of...
February 19, 2020
The Current News: February Edition
Our EV Editor Sophia Vassiliadis tells it like it is: bikes and trikes from...
December 31, 2019
The Current News: New Year Edition!
Sophia Vassiliadis notes there's a lot going on in the electric motorcycle...
November 26, 2019
The Current News: Nov. 26 2019
This week - an amazing hybrid kit for Ducati's Panigale gives 300hp! Segway make...
November 19, 2019
Current News: Nov. 19, 2019
It's been a huge week in the EV world, with superb new designs from Pierre...
November 19, 2019
Moto Major: Italy Reinvents the Motorcycle
It created a sensation when first shown in 1947, and remains a thing of intrigue...
November 13, 2019
The Current News: Nov. 13, 2019
At EICMA, every motorcycle manufacturer shows its prototypes and next-year...
November 4, 2019
The Current News: Nov. 3 2019
EV writer Sophia Vasiliadis gives us this week: Cobras, Kymcos, hubless...
October 17, 2019
The Current News: Oct 17, 2019
A week of halted progress for Harley-Davidson's Livewire and Arc, but...
October 3, 2019
The Current News: Oct 3, 2019
Our EV Editor Tim Huber follows developments in the electric motorcycle market...
September 4, 2019
Martin Chambi: “I Am Not Hispanic: I am Pre-Hispanic.”
Photographer Martin Chambi was the first native Peruvian to document his people,...
July 9, 2019
The Current News: July 5th 2019
The best-preserved 19th Century electric car, and the baddest 2019 electric...
July 4, 2019
Zero at Pike’s Peak 2019
After 13 years, Zero digs in to the most hotly contested American road race, the...
July 4, 2019
Where are the Hybrid Motorcycles?
Hybrids of internal combustion motors and electric motors are successful in...
June 28, 2019
The Current News: June 28 2019
This week: BMW brings the badass! Plus vintage Vespa conversions, and India...
June 19, 2019
The Current News: June 20
The 5-Minute Charge is here! The revolution in battery technology is not about...
June 10, 2019
The Current News: June 10
It's a big week! BMW explores share-play, while others blur the moto/bike...
May 28, 2019
The Current News: May 29
We follow electric two-wheeler news around the world in Tim Huber's weekly...
May 27, 2019
The Vintagent Selects: Elspeth Beard – One Of The Early Globetrotters
When I set off to ride my motorcycle around the world in 1982 I never imagined...
May 22, 2019
The Current News: May 22
Tim Huber follows the the e-bike news from around the world, for our weekly...
May 18, 2019
The Current News
It's like 1903 all over again, with new manufacturers popping up like weeds. ...
May 2, 2019
The Vintagent Selects: Elspeth Beard – Riding into History
Getting lost and finding your way again is part of the adventure.
April 25, 2019
‘Shared Lady Beetle’: the Sweetest Rebuke
Beijing's LUO Studio designed an evocative, hand-fabricated mobile children's...
April 13, 2019
Gillian Freeman, Eliot George, and ‘The Leather Boys’
Gillian Freeman, who wrote the novel and screenplay "The Leather Boys", has died...
March 27, 2019
The Current: Shed One
Shed One of West Yorkshire thinks a DIY e-Bike kit, and classes on building your...
March 7, 2019
The Current: Talking Tech With Energica CTO Giampiero Testoni
Can autonomous vehicle systems increase motorcycle safety? Energica has been...
March 3, 2019
‘Rekordjagd auf Zwei Rädern’
An exhibit of the world's most badass motorcycles from 1904 to 1984, 'Record...
March 1, 2019
The Vintagent Trailers: Outcast Forever
A Documentary on the notorious all black outlaw motorcycle club.
March 1, 2019
Savic: Australia’s First Production E-Moto
Dennis Savic displayed his cafe racer prototype, auguring the future of...
November 28, 2018
The Current: Eva Håkansson’s Quest to Break 400 mph With Green Envy
Will Eva Håkansson become the fastest woman in history an electric motorcycle,...
November 26, 2018
The Vintagent Archive: “A Two-Wheeled Steed” (1869)
From the first year of pedal-cycle mass-production, and 1869 account of the joys...
November 18, 2018
NSU Breaks 200mph Barrier!
In 1956, the German NSU factory sent a team of six streamliners to Bonneville,...
November 11, 2018
‘The Angels of Pervyse’
Mairie and Elsie were motorcycle pals from 1912, who took their bikes to Belgium...
October 5, 2018
The Current: Alta Grabs First Electric AMA Pro National Podium
It's finally happened: the Alta Redshift is the first electric-powered...
September 2, 2018
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. ...
August 24, 2018
The Early History of Indian, Part 1: George M. Hendee, Bicycle Race Legend
George M Hendee was a champion bicycle racer, who later manufactured bicycles...
August 23, 2018
The Current: Mike Corbin, E-Bike Pioneer
Mike Corbin built electric motorcycles since the 1970s, and held the electric...
July 22, 2018
Death By Cocteau
In 1949, Jean Cocteau invented the 'Dark Rider' image in his film 'Orphée', and...
May 23, 2018
Motosacoche and the Brothers Dufaux
The Dufaux brothers were pioneers of aviation, and founded a very successful...
May 14, 2018
Around the World with Aloha Wanderwell
Aloha Wanderwell was the first woman to circle the globe on wheels, as well as...
May 3, 2018
Art and the Motorcycle (2): The Futurists
The Futurists were the only Modern Art movement to explore the motorcycle as...
April 18, 2018
100 Years Ago: Harley-Davidson Military Testing in 1918
In 1918, Harley-Davidson motorcycles and sidecars were shown off for inspectors...
April 12, 2018
The Current: Hard Wired With Lawrence Au
The future of motorcycling may reside in the brain of Lawrence Au, with patents...
April 3, 2018
The Motorcycle is 200 Years Old Today?
Was the motorcycle first demonstrated on April 3rd, 1818?
March 25, 2018
100 Years Ago: Harley-Davidson Training Schools in 1918
In a canny business move, Harley-Davidson provided the US Military with free...
September 19, 2017
Road Test: 1930 Majestic
The Majestic was the ultimate French Art Deco motorcycle - radical and...
July 25, 2017
The Motorcycling Du Ponts
The Du Pont family is intimately tied with the American motorcycle industry, and...
April 7, 2011
Steam Cycles and History
How we see history, and what we consider relevant, can change with time or...
November 30, 2008
Book Review: ‘Illustrated History of the Shickel Motorcycle’
An early American two-stroke capable of pulling a trailer? The Schickel was a...
August 23, 2008
Rocket Cycles! Part 2: Archibald Low
Archibald Montgomery Low was a pioneer in unmanned aviation and rocketry,...