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The Vintagent Selects: Giovanni Burlando’s Vision
The Vintagent Selects: A collection of our favorite films by artists around the world. Giovanni Burlando’s Vision (2015) Run Time: 10:35 Producer: Ugo Roffi Director: Ugo Roffi Key Cast: Giovanni...
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California Dunes Riding in the 1960s
[Photos: Bill Greene] We’re grateful to Bill Greene for allowing us to publish these amazing family photos. Bill’s father and friends seemed to have a pretty grand time riding around desert and dunes...
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We Did the Ride Thing
We did the Ride thing. It was during the summer of 2012 that we decided to put pen to paper and document the thriving alt-custom motorcycle scene. With Chris Hunter from BikeEXIF at the editorial helm...
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Gallery: Heidi Zumbrun
What does it look like when riders on every kind of motorcycle, with ages ranging from their 20s through their 70s, in a mix of genders and colors, get together for a few days of riding, racing,...
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The Current: Future-Proof (Part 1)
FUTURE-PROOFING THE MODERN MOTORCYCLE, by ‘The Current’ editor Michael Wilson Transportation isn’t a simple gas up and go, point A to point B equation anymore. Now cars drive themselves, travel for...
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The Silent Types
Motorcycles and movies; it’s been a winning combination since the dawn of cinema. The Silent era of the early 1900s-1920s relied on pantomime, title cards, and onscreen antics before spoken dialogue...
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Project Desert Rat
Words and Photos: Paul d’Orléans It sounds like the start of a good yarn; two friends haul their crappy old Triumphs to southern Utah for some canyon-hopping. While it turned out to be a very good...
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Luigi Colani: The Future Is Now
A generation ago, we lost the Future. For over a century, a better, more functional, more equitable, and technologically cooler place was tantalizingly just out of reach, but certain to become today,...
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The Vintagent Trailers: White Knuckle: The Story Of The Motorcycle Cannonball
The Vintagent Trailers: A preview of our favorite feature films out there. White Knuckle: The Story Of The Motorcycle Cannonball (2012) Run Time: 60:00 Director: Brian Darwas Producer: Atomic Hot Rods...
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The Vintagent Classics: Impatience
The Vintagent Classics: The films that inspired us. Impatience (1928) Run Time: 36:57 Director: Charles Dekeukeleire Cast: Yonnie Selma Music: Amatorski FILM MAKERS Charles Dekeukeleire (27 February...
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The Current: Eff You See Eye
The Outlaw Bicycle; a Streamlined Middle Finger to the Man Motorcycles owe a huge debt to bicycles. The invention of the ‘Safety’ frame in the mid-1880s – the same basic chassis used on 99% of...
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The Ride: Revival Cycles Landspeeder
More ‘Henne’ than Hemi, but still the loudest bike in town One benefit of trolling European bike shows is bumping into ex-factory race bikes hauled from the vaults. Munich’s BMW Museum was in a...
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The Vintagent Selects: Chasing The Bullet
The Vintagent Selects: A collection of our favorite films by artists around the world. CHASING THE BULLET (2016) Run Time: 20:00 Director: Chris Zahner Writer: Chris Zahner Producer: Chris Zahner...
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The Current: Saroléa is Alive and Electric
Words: Gaz Boulanger. Photos: Mirco Lazzari Joseph Saroléa established his arms factory in Liège in 1850, and like many manufacturers of the era evolved his company into a bicycle maker in the early...
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The Ride: Piyush and Nishanth – Avoid IT
Photos: Piyush Verma Let’s say you’re a recently graduated mechanical engineer in India; the next step is a job in IT, right? But sometimes, motorcycles get in the way, and that’s the case with...
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There Goes my Hero
Words: Paul d’Orléans. Published in the Nov 2017 issue of Cycle World It’s time we admit it; we don’t ride much. At least, not in the numbers (or hours) of other countries. If you travel abroad,...
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The Ride: Bryan Fuller’s ‘Bavarian Café
Bryan Fuller’s Ultra Chic Toaster Tank. Words: Paul d’Orléans Photos: Matt Jones I breezed right past Bryan Fuller’s latest custom at the Handbuilt Show last April. With my third ‘Vintagent’ cocktail...
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The Current: Confederate No More – Meet the Curtiss Motorcycle
Words: Michael Wilson (with Paul d’Orléans) Confederate. The dictionary defines it as ‘united’, but its meaning in the USA is anything but. The declaration of the Confederate States of America in 1861...
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Glenn H. Curtiss
A Founder of American Motorcycling Glenn H. Curtiss is best known as the founder of American aviation, but he also played an important role in the technical development of American motorcycle design....
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Martin Munkacsi
Words: Paul d’Orléans Photos: Martin Munkacsi He made his way from a local newspaper writer and sports photographer, to a stylistic pioneer of action photography, to the most famous and well-paid...
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