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NICK VEASEY: BENEATH THE SURFACE
Mystery rider on a '41 Matchless G3L 350cc military bikeArtist Nick Veasey has been messing around with x-rays ever since he was hired to x-ray a cola can for a TV show in England, when he was a...
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HANDBUILT SHOW: STEALING MOJO
One corner of the Handbuilt Show; the Fuller Hot Rods Norton Commando, plus Roland Sands' new Indian, the Revival J63, etcMy article on Austin's Handbuilt Show, put on by Revival Cycles (full...
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VALE, GEOFF DUKE; WORLD CHAMPION, GENTLEMAN
To the Victor, the spoils! After winning the '54Â Swedish TT at HedemoraNews of Geoff Duke's passing filtered through the internet this weekend, as an older generation remembered motorcycle racing's...
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VINTAGE REVIVAL MONTLHERY 2015: PART 1
Ruby helmets founder Jérome Coste is alive and well and racing his father's ES2 NortonWhy on earth, my friends ask, would I travel 20 hours on a round-trip plane to Paris, and spend a couple of grand...
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2015 VINTAGE REVIVAL MONTLHERY: PART 2
Marcel Léyat's' Hélica' aerocar of 1921 in full glory - what an object!  There's another example in the excellent Musée des Arts et Metiers in central Paris.The smoky end of Frank Chatokhine's'38...
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CONCORSO DI MOTO, 2015
For your consideration; the 1964 Honda 2RC164, Jim Redman's TT winner for that yearWhile the Concorso di Villa d'Este traces its roots back to 1929, the sporadic history of the car show at the historic...
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BILL PHELPS: CATCHING HEROES
Everyone with a phone is a photographer, and today, updating Warhol's old saw, everyone is famous for 15pixels. Between filters and apps, we can fool ourselves that we're good, but confronted with an...
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A MATCHLESS MILITARY OUTFIT
The 1916/17 Motor Machine Gun Corps Matchless sidecar platformBonhams is offering a remarkable motorcycle at the upcoming Banbury Run sale on June 20th. Matchless v-twins of the 'Teens are rare and...
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LOST WAGES, FOUND MOTORBIKES
Bonhams'Malcolm Barber discusses the 'Shadowized' Vincent Rapide which sold for $47k inclusive of feesThe Las Vegas collector motorcycle auctions every January are the biggest vintage bike sale...
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BMW 'PATH22' IN CYCLE WORLD
BMW's concept homage to Wheels&Waves - the Path22While in the south of France for the Wheels&Waves festival last week, BMW revealed its concept surf-moto, the 'Path22', with paint by Ornamental...
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WHEELS + WAVES 2015: 'MAYBE BIG IS NOT BAD?' - Pt.1
The ArtRide exhibitionOlivier Prat, son of Southsiders founder Vincent Prat, walks the Garage Foch gallery during setupOur title quote popped from the mouth of El Solitario's David Borras in the wee...
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'THE CHOPPER: THE REAL STORY' REVIEWED
Speedreaders.info, which features 'authoritative reviews of transport books and media', has seen fit to review my most recent book 'The Chopper; the Real Story', and to their great credit they've...
View ArticleWHEELS+WAVES ON FILM, PART 1
Nick Clements of Men's File magazine filmed interviews with participants at the 2015 Wheels+Waves festival in Biarritz, and produced this short film, apparently Part 1 of a longer effort to come. Yours...
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WHEELS+WAVES 2015; PUNK'S PEAK
The competitors parade...Here's an important way Wheels+Waves is different from most other motorcycle shows; it includes two days of riding through the exceptional Basque countryside, and an impromptu...
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KENJI EKUAN, VMAX DESIGNER
Kenji Ekuan, industrial designer, and head of GK Design GroupAs a child, he wandered the streets of his native Hiroshima just after the nuclear devastation, and spoke of hearing the voices of 'mangled...
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THE PARIS SCENE: RETROMOBILE AND GRAND PALAIS
Special to TheVintagent.com by Francois-Marie Dumas:A nice display! Â A 'Roman Holiday' poster with the early Vespa 98, ca 1946. Â As timeless as the film...Retromobile:Â For its 40th birthday this year,...
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MINNEAPOLIS - THE FIRST AMERICAN GEARBOX
A c.1910 Thor-engined Minneapolis board track racerThe brothers Jack, Walter, Anton and Paul Michaelson, while not the first pioneers of American motorcycling, still managed with their small Minnesota...
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FAVORED BY THE GODS OF SPEED
Alp Sungurtekin has built the world’s fastest unfaired Triumph 650.Alp Sungurketin's new Land Speed Record pre-unit Triumph 650, timed at 172mph, using nitromethane breathing through new Burlen Amal GP...
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THE END OF MOTORCYCLES AT PEBBLE BEACH, IN VERSE
Alain deCadenet aboard the ex-John Edgar, Rollie Free 'bathing suit' Vincent, one of the world's most famous motorcycles MIGHTY MO'BIKE HAS STRUCK OUT The outlook wasn't brilliant for a Pebble judge...
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RARE HARLEY-DAVIDSON FHA 8-VALVE RACER UNEARTHED
The 1927 H-D FHA racer, with its racing sidecar, little more than a padded platform. Â A remarkable original-condition racer from the end of the first Golden Age of American racingIt happens every year;...
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