The Current News: Aug 10, 2019
This week's EV news from around the world, with new machines from Curtiss, Audi,...
The Current News July 26, 2019
News from around the world, as the electric revolution continues. Reportage by...
Blue Junior Flying Scooter Display Team
You've heard of motorcycle display teams, but the Japanese Air Force has a very...
Concorso di Eleganza Villa d’Este 2019
What's the inside scoop on the swankest Concorso on earth? Follow Paul...
The Current News: May 29
We follow electric two-wheeler news around the world in Tim Huber's weekly...
Heiwa Motorcycle and Kengo Kimura
In an unassuming warehouse near the Hiroshima docklands, Heiwa Motorcycles makes...
Candy Land in the Basque Country
In the fantastic seaside town of San Sebastian, Spain, you'll find Cafe Racer...
The Current: Egads! An Electric Surfboard?
Electric surfboards are the next big thing: this Swedish model from Awake Boards...
Legends of Montlhéry at the Café Racer Festival: Part 1
The annual Cafe Racer Festival at Monthlery is that track's only all-motorcycle...
The Current: How Moto3 Opened The Door For NEXT Electric
NEXT is an electric scooter startup, grown from an international design...
2018 Concorso Eleganza Villa d’Este
The Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este is the most spectacular concours in the...
2018 London Bike Shed Show
The Bike Shed London custom motorcycle show is the largest 'alt.custom' show in...
The Current: KTM Goes Silent With Freeride E-XC
When Austria's Big Orange goes green, silent dirt biking gets a little more...
The Current: FEDDZ e-Bike
The FEDDZ e-Bike is designed from first principles, with many clever features,...
The Current: Silicon Valley On An Energica Esse Esse 9
How does it feel to ride an electric sportbike made in the Ferrari homeland of...
Road Test: 1923 Ner-A-Car
The Ner-A-Car was the most successful hub-center steered motorcycle in history;...
The Current: Swedish Cake Serves Up Kalk
Swedish design team Cake come up with a high-design off-road e-moto that looks...
Wheels + Waves Mountain Road Test
Road testing a 1933 Brough Superior 11-50 in the Pyrenees is a rough job, but...
Karlheinz Weinberger
The Swiss photographer worked in obscurity in the 1960s and beyond, documenting...
Book Review: Harley-Davidson Book of Fashions
Rin Tanaka was granted access to the archives of the Harley-Davidson Museum, and...
Road Test: Falcon Kestrel
Ian Barry's Falcon Kestrel is a contemporary masterpiece of custom motorcycle...
The Tiger of Picardy
Triumph were allowed to build their twin-cylinder line even after WW2 began, and...
Book Review: ‘Japan’s Motorcycle Wars’
The book details the amazing, ruthless, dog-eat-dog Japanese motorcycle industry...
T.E. Lawrence; ‘The Road’
T.E. Lawrence, better known as 'Lawrence of Arabia', was a keen motorcyclist,...
Book Review: ‘Flat Out! The Rollie Free Story’
Rollie Free proved the Vincent Black Shadow was the world's fastest production...
Chopper History on NPR
NPR explored the un-easy history of the 'Captain America' chopper used in 'Easy...
The Emperor of Motorcycles
The most elegant motorcycles in the world came from George Brough's workshops in...
The Rudge Book of the Road
In the 1920s, the Rudge-Whitworth company offered lavish touring accessories for...
100 Years After the ‘Indian Summer’, Part 4: Oliver Godfrey
Oliver Cyril Godfrey won the 1911 Isle of Man TT on an Indian, but World War 1...
100 Years After the ‘Indian Summer’, Part 3: Charles Bayly Franklin
Charles Bayly Franklin was Ireland's first international motorcycle racer, and...
100 Years After the ‘Indian Summer’, Part 2: Jake De Rosier
Jake De Rosier was perhaps the first professional motorcycle racer, and Indian's...
100 Years After the ‘Indian Summer’, Part 1: Billy Wells
Over 100 years ago, Indian swept the Isle of Man TT with a 1-2-3 win. It was...
Book Review: ‘BMW Rennsport’
Author Stefan Knittel publishes another terrific book from the BMW Archives,...
Book Review: Garden Gate Manx
The Vintagent's Book of the Year for 2015; 'The Book About My Bike', published...
‘The Chopper: the Real Story’ Reviewed
Speedreader reviews Paul d'Orléans' book 'The Chopper; the Real Story', Pub. by...
Book Review: ‘Lewis Leathers’
Lewis Leathers, established in 1892, is Britain's oldest motor-clothing...
Anke Eve Goldmann: ‘Soviet Racing Women’
In 1962, Anke Eve Goldmann documented the extraordinary Soviet motorcycle racing...
Road Test: The New Crocker
The Crocker motorcycle is back, in limited production with brand name owner...
The Remarkable Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Motorcycle Co. pioneered the use of a gearbox before any other...
Days of Future Past: the Mercury
Laurie Jenks designed the Motorcycle of the Future, an all-aluminum masterpiece...
1935 Böhmerland ‘Reise’
The Bohmerlans was the longest production motorcycle in history, capable of...
Book Review: Charles Burki
Charles Burki illustrated his Norton racing motorcycles while imprisoned in WW2
Road Test: the New Brough Superior SS100
Road Test of the new Brough Superior SS101 on the twisting coastal roads near...
The End of Motorcycles at Pebble Beach, In Verse
Set to the tune of 'Mighty Casey at Bat', Paul d'Orleans sings the sad song of...
Occupy Pebble Beach!
Paul d'Orleans reflects on what the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance has become...
Book Review: ‘Illustrated History of the Shickel Motorcycle’
An early American two-stroke capable of pulling a trailer? The Schickel was a...
Book Review: ‘Private Owner’
Les Higgins was bitten by the racing bug while still a schoolboy, and spent his...
