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1930 RUDGE RACER
A picture full of appeal; Vintage-era racing bikes are light and purposeful.Manuel Parra of Spain sent photos of his just-completed restoration of a 1930 'TT' Rudge, which was originally raced in...
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ROBERT HUGHES: ART CRITIC, MOTORCYCLIST
Art critic Robert Hughes in 1986A champion of Motorcycling has died after a long illness; Robert Hughes, creator/host of the 'Shock of the New' television series and long-time art critic for Time...
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'OLD BILL'
'Old Bill' as she sits todayHandH Classics in England have secured the rights to sell 'Old Bill', the second most famous Brough Superior of all (the first being, of course, the bike on which TE...
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WET PLATES ON A DRY LAKE
Alain de Cadanet astride the 'Edgar' Vincent Black Shadow, on which Rollie Free made his infamous 'bathing suit' run at 150mph at Bonneville in 1948. Alain was filming for the Discovery Channel, and...
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THE CROCKER STORY
Crocker engineer Paul Bigsby with rider Sam Parriot at Muroc dry lake, 1940The story of Crocker motorcycles has been obscured by tall tales and myths since the very day they were introduced, first as...
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HUGHES, GODFREY, AND THE RED BARON
Oliver Godfrey, winner of the 1911 Isle of Man TT, with his Indian at BrooklandsThe Vintagent's obituary of art critic Robert Hughes brought responses from far and wide, some from unexpected quarters....
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CANNONBALL: PREPARING 'THE MULE'
The Mule; not afraid of dirt, although it played hell with the open cambox...I've had my head so far inside my '28/'33 Velocette KSS/MkIV KTT hybrid, appropriately named 'The Mule', that I haven't had...
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'OILY RAG' DEBUTS
Last winter Douglas Blain, publisher of The Automobile (and founder of Bike and Car magazines), suggested I take the helm of a new magazine, online only at first, which would focus on all things...
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CROCKERS CROWD 'TOP 20'
Test-riding one of the 3 Crockers which sold at Bonhams for $300k...The recent Bonhams sale at Quail Lodge during Pebble Beach week, which included three Crockers sold near $300,000, has knocked The...
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CANNONBALL WET PLATES #1
Shooting with two plate cameras; an 8"x10" and a 5"x7", the larger one an original 1890s model, the smaller a new Chamonix using an 1860s Petzval portrait lens. Photos by Paul d'Orléans / Susan...
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CANNONBALL WET PLATES...
For more Cannonball wet plate/collodion images from Team Oily Rag/Vintagent, visit the Oily Rag webpage here.
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CANNONBALL UPDATE...
More coverage on the Motorcycle Cannonball in Oily Rag magazine; read it here.
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VINTAGENT IN 'CYCLE WORLD'
It seems I'll be contributing more regularly to Cycle World online, and my most recent column is a discussion of the vicissitudes of the Motorcycle Cannonball. Read it here on Cycle World.com.A wet...
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CANNONBALL WRAP IN CYCLE WORLD
Check it out; I'm busy finishing articles for MCN in England, Café Racers in France, Oily Rag magazine, and of course, a special helmet-eye view of the whole thing for The Vintagent. Gotta pay the...
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2012 MOTORCYCLE CANNONBALL: THE ULTIMATE OLD BIKE TEST
Shot over the Teton Range in Wyoming, official Cannonball photographer Michael Lichter makes me look like a hero!I've posted the 'wet plate' photos in Oily Rag, written online articles for Cycle World,...
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CALIFORNIA DREAMING
The '73 Triumph TR5T Trophy Trail purchased at the Bonhams Las Vegas auction last January...overlooking Bolinas Lagoon and Stinson Beach.San Francisco doesn't fit the image of California, mostly...
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'THE MASTER' AND THE MOTORCYCLE
Joaquin Phoenix as Freddie Quell, riding what looks like a Norton 16H across a dry lake bedMonths ago the New York Times ran a story on Paul Thomas Anderson's latest film (starring Joaquin Phoenix and...
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CATCHING UP WITH CROCKER
Pd'O in a Wet Plate image; not as suspicious of the new machine as I lookBack in May at the 2012 Quail Motorcycle Gathering, I met Michael Schacht and had a good look at his new Crocker Big Tank, which...
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PROJECT DESERT RAT
The concept; take two Triumphs out to the desert in southern Utah, for a little dirty fun. I already have a '73 Triumph Adventurer for the trip; my companion Conrad Leach bought a '71 Triumph TR6R on...
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SHINY PEBBLES IN THE CALI SUN...
[Somehow, my articles about Pebble Beach Week last August were all in print magazines...here's one from The Automobile, which has more of a four-wheel focus, but you get the gist...]Leading off the...
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