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The Vintagent Presents: One Minute Moto!
The Vintagent presents our first short film contest; One Minute Moto! ONE MINUTE MOTO (2018) One Minute Moto is an Instagram-based short film contest. Anyone can enter! We want your film! ENTER YOUR...
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Vintage Triumph Wins Mexican 1000
Dirt; it’s how Americans race. That was the story in 1961 anyway, when Daytona still referred to a beach. Honda wanted to crack the American market, and that meant building dirt bikes; they’d dominated...
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The Big X and the Big 3: the Excelsior-Henderson Story
The Big 3. For a time, they were the last men standing in the American motorcycle industry: Harley-Davidson, Indian, and Excelsior-Henderson. They fought hard on the dirt tracks, race tracks, hill...
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The Vintagent Classics: Sherlock Jr.
The Vintagent Classics: The films that inspired us. Sherlock Jr. (1924) Run Time: 45:00 Producer: Buster Keaton Productions Director: Buster Keaton Key Cast: Buster Keaton, Kathryn McGuire, Joe Keaton...
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Bernard Testemale: ‘Art of Ride’
Bernard Testemale is best known as a professional surf photographer, based in southern France, having grown up in Soustons and surfing from an early age. He began his photo career in the dark(room)...
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The Current: German (e-)Drive, Italian Flair
Six years ago, most electric bicycles looked uninspired and frumpy. Battery packs were bolted to the downtube or mounted on a rear rack. While working on his Master’s thesis in 2012, Hannes Biechele...
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Hooligan Racing: Gateway Drug to Flat Track
It’s hard to get started in off-road motorsports unless you’ve grown up around them. What’s an urban cowboy to do? Motorcycle dealerships don’t sell race-ready flat trackers. When I queried, a used...
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‘The Angels of Peyvres’
They were the ‘most photographed women of the War’ – that war being WW1 – which is a pretty unlikely lot for a couple of nurses. But Mairi Chisholm and Elsie Knocker were a pretty unlikely pair, who...
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Rondal Partridge: Santa Clara Hillclimb in 1940
If anyone was ever born to be a photographer, it was Rondal Partridge, whose name you’ve likely never heard, but you likely know his mother, the legendary photographer Imogen Cunningham. Partridge’s...
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The Current: Swedish Cake Serves Up Kalk
Swedish design manager Stefan Ytterborn has worked for globally recognized brands including IKEA, Ericsson, Saab and Absolut Vodka. In 2005 he launched POC, a cycling and snow protective gear company...
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Road Test: 1923 Ner-A-Car
Carl Neracher was born to make the Ner-A-Car; it was his name, after all! That double pun – his motorcycle was both ‘nearly a car’ and a mis-spelling of his name – was auspicious wordplay, for while...
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Before the Bandit
After legendary Triumph boss Edward Turner retired from his motorcycle factory in 1963, he holed up in a BSA subsidiary, CarBodies Ltd of Coventry, but simply couldn’t keep his hand off his original...
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The Current: Bellissima Italian Volt!
Between June 10 – July 23, 2013, Nicola Colombo and Valerio Fumagalli rode electric motorcycles from Shanghai to Milan, covering 7,691.94 miles through 12 countries in 44 days. This set a Guinness...
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The Mexican Suitcase
Three inauspicious cardboard boxes stuffed in a suitcase, and hidden in a Mexico City closet for over 70 years was revealed as a treasure trove of photography in 2010. ‘The Mexican Suitcase’, as it...
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The Vintagent Trailers: Dream Racer
The Vintagent Trailers: A preview of our favorite feature films out there. DREAM RACER (2012) Run Time: 1:33:00 PRODUCER: Simon Lee DIRECTOR: Simon Lee WRITER: Simon Lee EDITOR: Adrian Barac CAMERA...
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1935 – The Greatest TT?
[By David Royston] Memorable races match two top rivals of comparable skill and equal valour, driven by the need to succeed, riding machines at the leading edge of performance, backed by well-drilled...
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‘A Handlebar Derby’– Daytona Beach Racing
A Short History of Beach Racing at Daytona At the dawn of the 20th Century, Florida’s beaches were a prime spot for top-speed runs. Daytona/Ormond beach is 23 miles long and spans over 500 feet wide...
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‘Von Dutch’ in Las Vegas
Von Dutch. Artist, Custom Culture demigod, legendary misanthrope, tee shirt brand. Kenny Howard was many things – in his lifetime and beyond – but regardless his troubled personal legacy, he deserves...
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The Vintagent Presents: One Minute Moto!
The Vintagent presents our first short film contest; One Minute Moto! ONE MINUTE MOTO (2018) One Minute Moto is an Instagram-based short film contest. Anyone can enter! We want your film! ENTER YOUR...
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Vintage Triumph Wins Mexican 1000
Dirt; it’s how Americans race. That was the story in 1961 anyway, when Daytona still referred to a beach. Honda wanted to crack the American market, and that meant building dirt bikes; they’d dominated...
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