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The Ride: Wedge Motorcycles Honda CB750F
[by Maximilian Funk, with Photos by Hermann Koepf] If you think you’ve seen them all – the Cafe Racers & Scramblers of the Alt.Custom movement – you can be 100% sure that a Japanese builder will...
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The Best of the 1980s
Each decade of the 20th Century produced its icons of design; products that distilled the vibe of an era into 3 dimensions. These cars, motorcycles, armoires and toasters were rarely the top sellers...
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The Current: Harley-Davidson –‘E-Bike in 18 Months’
With American motorcycle sales dropping 50% in the past 10 years, and Millenials more interested in swiping left than twisting a throttle, how will Harley-Davidson survive? They’ve opened a plant in...
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The Current: SURU – the New Cub?
Michael Uhlarik is a professional motorcycle designer with just over 20 years experience designing conventional motorcycles and scooters for Yamaha, Aprilia, Piaggio, Derbi, Bombardier and many others,...
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Velocettes at Montlhéry: 24 Hours at 100mph
Nearly 60 years have passed since an international cadre of Velocette enthusiasts braved certain discomfort and actual physical peril, to ride a humble Velocette Venom with no lights around the...
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The Ride: Retro-Future Sci-Fi – the Bandit9 L-Concept
In Fritz Lang’s 1927 sci-fi masterpiece Metropolis, the year is 2026, and the world’s population is divided between coverall-suited industrial laborers working underground, and the champagne-swilling...
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Class C Racing in California: 1935
Dirt: it pretty much defines American motorcycle racing. Powered moto-cycles were first introduced to the USA on bicycle velodromes as pacers, but outside the arena, paved roads were very rare. Only...
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The Current: Harley Bets On Alta
While Harley-Davidson recently announced their intention to bring an electric bike to market by 2020, they put their money where their press release is today, and announced they’d made an equity...
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‘Custom Revolution’ Exhibit in LA Times
[From the Los Angeles Times, Feb 28, 2018] ‘Alt custom’ motorcycles to begin one-year exhibit at Petersen Automotive Museum Krautmotors’ electric sprinter E-Lisabad, based on a BMW scooter!...
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The Vintagent Classics: Kid Speed
The Vintagent Selects: A collection of our favorite films by artists around the world. KID SPEED (1924) Run Time: 18:00 Producer: Larry Semon Director: Larry Semon Key Cast: Larry Semon FILM MAKERS...
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Africa: The Motorcyclists’ Continent
[By Jean Bourdache] When Japanese motorcycles began their conquest of the Western world in the 1960s and 70s, they did so by developing revolutionary technology (after a phase of copying Western...
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100 Years Ago: Inside the Indian Factory in 1918
It’s difficult to imagine today, but at the dawn of the 20th Century the United States had a tiny military, and its foreign policy was steered by the majority pacifist inclination of its people....
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‘Custom Revolution’ in Cycle World
[From Cycle World, Mar 3 2018] “Custom Revolution” Exhibit Opens At LA’s Petersen Automotive Museum April 14 See 25 examples from the Bike Exif generation of builders “The “Custom Revolution”...
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The Vintagent Trailers: Auto Revolution x Routeless
The Vintagent Trailers: A preview of our favorite feature films out there. Auto Revolution x Routeless (2017) Run Time: Series Director: Ian Beaudoux Key Cast: Heath Pinter, Ian Beaudoux FILM MAKERS...
View Article#OneMinuteMoto – The Winners!
The Vintagent’s first Instagram-based short film contest One Minute Moto is a wrap! Our winners in both Vintagent’s Choice (by our judges) and People’s Choice (by popularity on IG) categories can be...
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The Ride: Max Hazan’s ‘Musket 2’
Every great single-cylinder motorcycle has inspired fantasies of doubling the jugs to make a V-twin. It’s a very old story, as both Indian and Harley-Davidson tried it (hello), and plenty of...
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The Current: Alta Motors Crapshoot Dragster
John McInnis is a designer working under Alta co-founder Jeff Sand, the Chief Design Officer and original architect of the Alta Redshift motor. McInnis came to Alta from Lightning Motorcycles, where he...
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The ‘Motorized Cossacks’ of Africa
[By Jean Bourdache] The rapid diffusion of motorcycle transport has positive effects on the lives of Africans, both in urban centers and in the countryside, as noted in our previous article. But the...
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100 Years Ago: Excelsiors in 1918
The response of the US government to the declaration of war against Germany in April 1917 was astonishingly rapid. Virtually overnight, 4 Million men were drafted, and military contracts handed out to...
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The Vintagent Original: Sugar & Spade Morocco
The Vintagent Original: Stories We Need to Tell. [/one_half] Sugar & Spade Morocco (2018) Run Time: 5:00 Producer: Paul d’Orleans Director: Mark Macinnis Music, Original Score: Rocco Deluca FILM...
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