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The Vintagent Selects: Falcon Kestrel – Desert Ride
The Vintagent Selects: A collection of our favorite films by artists around the world. Falcon Kestrel Desert (2010) Run Time: 8:00 Producer: Falcon Motorcycles Director: Amaryllis Knight Editor: Matt...
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A Cowboy at a Garden Party
[Words and Photos: Michael Lawless] “Welcome to Radnor Hunt Concours d’Elegance, gentlemen.” The guards pointed our van up the manicured gravel drive; we drove past the stately clubhouse, and down the...
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Atlanta’s ‘Black Streaks’
[Words: David Morrill] Beginning in the mid-Teens, factory racing teams from Indian, Harley-Davidson, and Excelsior fought a hard battle for dominance on the board- and dirt-tracks around the country....
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Louis Lucien Lepoix
Louis Lucien Lepoix and his spectacular, futuristic bodywork for his BMW R12 Occasionally a great talent slips completely off the radar of design afficianados, due to a lack of available historic...
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El Mirage by Wet Plate
The romance of the place is captured in the name, redolent of the invisible goals of speed. El Mirage is nominally a town in the SoCal desert, nearest Palmdale, which is itself nearly nowhere, even...
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Japanese Motorcycles: the Early Days
The first motorcycle to appear in Japan; a Hildebrand and Wolfmüller, in 1896 (Iwatate) To understand the slow and chaotic beginning of the Japanese motorcycle industry, it helps to understand a little...
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The Japanese Harley-Davidsons
Alfred Rich Child and his family in Milwaukee, before heading off to Japan in 1924 (Sucher) Harley Davidsons began trickling into Japan in 1912, when the Japanese Army purchased a few machines, but...
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The Golden Age of Superchargers
Ernst Henne, the ultimate pre-war speed demon, and the supercharged BMW pushrod WR750 which was so devastatingly fast The Golden Age of supercharged racers was a brief but glorious moment, when...
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Road Test: 1928 Windhoff
The creations of Hans Windhoff began in Berlin with radiator production for cars, trucks, and aircraft. In 1924, he entered the burgeoning motorcycle market with water-cooled two-stroke machine of...
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Cannonball: Into the West
While there’s complication in keeping an 80-year old motorcycle running all day during the Cannonball, the landscape of America provides a calming counterbalance, as it’s absorbed in slow motion from...
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Road Test: Falcon Kestrel
Sometimes a scoop is a whispered favor; sometimes you grab it with both hands and run. I had the great luxury of spending a weekend in the company of the Falcon Motorcycles team; the Bullet, the...
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Book Review: Harley-Davidson Book of Fashions
Rin Tanaka has outdone himself. The master of books on vintage clothing has published the definitive history of American motorcycle gear, ‘Harley-Davidson Book of Fashions: 1910s – 1950s’, after he was...
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Showman in a Suitcase – Putt Mossman
[Words: Chris Illman] Some 20-odd years ago, whilst browsing a Junk Shop in Greenwich (southeast London), I found a very scruffy suitcase gathering dust, filled with a pile of old newspapers. Closer...
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Kop Hill – the Perfume of Authenticity
[Words: David Lancaster] What explains an addiction to old motorcycles? They’re costly, dirty, noisy, not always reliable, but something keeps bringing us back for another hit. But what? Sometime...
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Karlheinz Weinberger
He was a ‘grey man’ in a suit, an ordinary worker, never missing a day in his job as an inventory clerk at the Seimens-Albis factory in Zurich, Switzerland. By all accounts, Karlheinz Weinberger was...
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The Chanel Triton
July 2009: the fashion world was abuzz with two leaked photos (by Stéphane Feugére) of a custom-built ‘Chanel Triton’ being photographed for use as a prop for a Chanel photo shoot. Staff explained the...
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The Vintagent Selects: ‘Not So Easy’
The Vintagent Selects: A collection of our favorite films by artists around the world. NOT SO EASY (1973) Run Time: 17:57 Producer: Cliff Vaughs/Filmfair Communications Director: Cliff Vaughs...
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The Vintagent Selects: Richie Pan Forever
The Vintagent Selects: A collection of our favorite films by artists around the world. RICHIE PAN FOREVER (2016) Run Time: 31:22 Producer: Richard Panera, Pete McGill Director: Pete McGill Key Cast:...
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Freak Power: Hunter S. Thompson for Sheriff
[Words: Paul d’Orléans. Originally published in At Large Magazine] He was a bitch from birth, or so said Virginia, the first woman to suffer Hunter Stockton Thompson, by pushing him complaining and...
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Grayson Perry at the British Museum
To the pantheon of gender-bending motorcyclists – the infamous, notorious, or hidden – we must add Grayson Perry, multi-talented artist, transvestite, Turner Prize winner, and dedicated biker. I was...
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