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2015: NEW YEAR, NEW PROSPECTS
A highlight of 2014 was riding in the Motorcycle Cannonball, and with my partner Susan McLaughlin, we've shot enough Tintypes (like this one of Shinya Kimura, currently on view at the Ransom Gallery in...
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TUTORIAL FOR THE 'CAR GUYS': WHY BIKES?
I had a conversation with Stephen Cox of Sopwith Motors a few days ago regarding the upcoming Las Vegas motorcycle auctions. Stephen and I will be filmed by NBC TV during Saturday's Mecum auction at...
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'THE CHOPPER' IN INTERSECTION
'Der Chopper', published in both German and English, and now finally shipping from Amazon.com...reviewed here in IntersectionLest you forget in the long wait for 'The Chopper: the Real Story', it's...
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VINTAGE REVIVAL MONTLHERY - 2015
The best combined car/motorcycle event in the world is coming May 9th and 10th at the Montlhéry speed bowl, for Vintage-Revival Monthléry. I've attended both the prior events for pre-war cars and...
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WOT! NO BIKE? THE CLASH'S PAUL SIMONON PAINTS
by David Lancaster “A leather jacket never ages”Paul Simonon’s first memory of motorcyclists is etched in his mind. “It was in Paddington, where I grew up,” he recalls. “Rockers would hang around the...
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LOST WAGES, FOUND MOTORBIKES
Bonhams'Malcolm Barber discusses the 'Shadowized' Vincent Rapide which sold for $47k inclusive of feesThe Las Vegas collector motorcycle auctions every January are the biggest vintage bike sale...
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'THE KILLER'S' PANHEAD TOPS $385K...
The Jerry Lee Lewis '59 Panhead, a gift from the factoryAt Mecum's Kissimmee auction yesterday, Jerry Lee Lewis' 1959 Harley-Davidson FL 'Panhead' which he's owned for 55 years, and was a gift from the...
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GRAND PALAIS, S'IL VOUS PLAIS..
The enormous, sweeping volumes of the Grand Palais, with its original Art Nouveau ironwork, is something to beholdBonhams is hosting its February 5th Paris auction to coincide with the giant...
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'STORY OF THE CHOPPER' EXHIBIT - BIKES WANTED!
Fat chance finding the Kenny Howard Indian he modified in 1946, the grand-daddy of all choppers...but we can ask!I'm working with Mark Mederski and John Parham at the National Motorcycle Museum in...
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SHOOTING THE 'ARROW'
The front half of the streamlining of the Indian 'Arrow' in 1937 at BonnevilleWhile Burt Munro's 'world's fastest Indian' is the most famous record-breaker to use Springfield iron as its base, it...
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REPLICATING 'OLD BILL'
BS Allen with his Brough Superior 'Old Bill'replica, with twin-cam JAP 980cc SV engine, and little else!I recently posted a compelling photo of 'BS Allen' from 1923 (on my Facebook site), beside a...
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KENJI EKUAN, VMAX DESIGNER
Kenji Ekuan, industrial designer, and head of GK Design GroupAs a child, he wandered the streets of his native Hiroshima just after the nuclear devastation, and spoke of hearing the voices of 'mangled...
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THE PARIS SCENE: RETROMOBILE AND GRAND PALAIS
Special to TheVintagent.com by Francois-Marie Dumas:A nice display! A 'Roman Holiday' poster with the early Vespa 98, ca 1946. As timeless as the film...Retromobile: For its 40th birthday this year,...
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MINNEAPOLIS - THE FIRST AMERICAN GEARBOX
A c.1910 Thor-engined Minneapolis board track racerThe brothers Jack, Walter, Anton and Paul Michaelson, while not the first pioneers of American motorcycling, still managed with their small Minnesota...
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MEGABIKE CROCKER RAFFLE
One of the first Crocker 'big twins', serial #8 from 1936, a 'small tank' model, to be raffled off. The Crocker was a limited-production factory hot-rod, and equalled the HRD Series A Rapide twin,...
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THE ALT.CUSTOM SCENE: COOPTED?
The new Ducati Scrambler: perhaps the most obvious example of how alt.customs are influencing corporate motorcyclesSideburn magazine's Gary Inman, a friend of mine, wrote a thought-provoking piece on...
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RECORDS FALL IN LAS VEGAS
Star of the show: Steve McQueen's 1915 Cyclone - an $842,000 engine in a $10,000 Indian chassis...a new world record, now at the top of my 'Most Expensive Motorcycles' listTwo Vegas auctions in a year?...
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BOOK REVIEW: 'BMW MOTORRAD-RENNSPORT 1929-2013
Stefan Knittel, author, and director of the Concorso di Moto at Villa d'Este, has a new book about BMW racersAuthor Stefan Knittel has literally'written the book' on BMWs (among other marques), and has...
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THE 'WET PLATE VAN' - A MOTOTINTYPE ADVENTURE
Our new AMG Sprinter - the 180mph mobile darkroom.As announced this morning on our new Instagram account (@wetplatevan), my photographic partner Susan McLaughlin and I have embarked on a 3-year world...
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BONHAMS STAFFORD SPRING 2015
Star of the show; the 1939 Vincent-HRD Series A Rapide, which was rescued from the junk man! The twice-yearly Stafford auction by Bonhams is the European counterpoint to the January Las Vegas sales,...
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