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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 Pervyse’
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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The Vintagent Trailers: Choppertown The Sinners
The Vintagent Trailers: A preview of our favorite feature films out there. Choppertown the Sinners (2007) Run Time: 1:32:00 Director: Zack Coffman, Scott Di Lalla Writer: Zack Coffman, Scott Di Lalla...
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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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The Current: A New Era for MotoGP
Technology lovers cheered while internal combustion engine Luddites jeered, as MotoGP introduced its fledgling e-bike series with representatives from Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme (FIM),...
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Whence Came the Swingarm Frame?
The first motorcycles were hard things, that shook like hell over the rough cobbles and horse-shit roads of the late 19th and early 20th Century. Figuring out ways to absorb shocks and control a bike...
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The Vintagent Selects: Josh Kurpius DKS! Harley Davidson Ambassador
The Vintagent Selects: A collection of our favorite films by artists around the world. Josh Kurpius DKS! Harley Davidson Ambassador (2014) Run Time: 5:32 Produced & Directed by: Ian Beaudoux...
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‘Slant Artists’: Hillclimbers in California, 1925-35
What do you get when you combine drag racing, motocross, and a vertical surface? Hillclimbing, the American way! Two-wheeled motorsport in the USA went through dramatic changes before WW2, but it was...
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The Current: Vessla e-Scooter Bans Uselessness
Swede Rickard Bröms spent 14 years building brands and marketing them for clients. Fed up with relying on public transport, he partnered with scooter experts Peter Klangsell and Mikael Klingberg, who...
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