Articles by Carter Edman
Mid-Ohio's Vintage Motorcycle Days
Every year, Vintage Motorcycle Days at Mid-Ohio Race Course has a different theme. This year is was Rockers and Mods. I think that's because lately the theme of everything is Rockers and Mods. They had Rockers and Mods day at our local animal shelter last week (the hamsters were the Mods). Of course, at these things, nobody really wants to be a Mod, so it's usually Rockers and Other Rockers. But ... 21 August 2012
Inside The Gas Box
In an old modernist firehouse in North Olmsted, Ohio, is The Gas Box, a custom shop that's starting to get a lot of attention. There you'll find Jesse Bassett, the easy-going, easy-laughing mad genius; his girlfriend and business partner Kris Hinkel; customer-turned-partner Crazy Brett Scully; and their mechanical magi Marcus Ellis, Tim Fiorucci, and Jeffrey Wolfson. Photos: Carter Edman 07 August 2012
An XS650 love story
Some of the commenters from my last article asked, where's the love? That's a fair enough question. It's great to be cynical and sarcastic, but that's not really why we're here. We're here — on HFL, on the road, in our garages — because of something we love. This is a story about that. Take a look at this picture. That's my brother on the Yamaha, circa 1982. I'm in the background playing catc... 08 July 2012
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Danger: BABi on Board
WARNING! There is a menace on the streets, Mr. and Mrs. America! A two-wheeled peril prowling your very neighborhoods. These marauders of menace bring a new meaning to TERROR ON THE TARMAC. What is this new threat? Young hooligans and their high-spirited hijinks? Pistol-packing gangs with a devil-may-care attitude? No, these are the new horror of the highway. These are the BABis: the Born-Again ... 26 June 2012
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Notes from the Lost Tribe: the 2012 International Motorcycle Studies Conference
It seems there is no tract of jungle so dense it hasn't been mapped, no tribe so remote they haven't been the subject of three dissertations and two documentaries. Reclusive Yanomami in the Amazon have Pepsi t-shirts. Nomadic herdsmen in Outer Mongolia are tweeting about their favorite fermented horse milk. Likewise, every single possible American subculture seems to have been dissected, investi... 18 June 2012