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The BSA Gold Star that conquered Daytona Beach
Who knew sitting in front of a computer screen pecking away at a keyboard could be so dangerous? No physical threat from my gig writing catalog descriptions for the upcoming Bonhams motorcycle auction in Las Vegas, but I am in deep danger of moto-lust about every third bike. A Munch Mammoth TTS, an Excelsior Big X board-tracker, a Brough Superior Black Alpine, a Suzuki RG500 Walter Wolf, a Condor ...
Dec 14, 2010
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Custom: Speed Shop Design Beezerker
When we first saw shots of the Beezerker from Sturgis, we were absolutely amazed. Not just because a Sturgis bike lacked raked-out forks and airbrushed wizards fighting grizzly bears, but because this motorcycle looks like something that exists outside of time, not just outside the custom world. It looks like The Sky Captain’s cafe racer of tomorrow. We had to see and know more, so we reached ou...
Sep 29, 2010
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Steampunkish art deco is the new custom
Photos: Horst Roesler and Frank SanderIf these three islands of creativity in the sea of chromed-out Harley-customs that is the AMD World Championship of Custom Bike Building are representative of a new trend, then steampunkish art deco is the new custom. The BSA-based Beezerker is a hand made beauty looking like something from another time on another planet. Ch...
Aug 16, 2010
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Steve McQueen: what I like in a bike and why
"Why does a movie star who just received $750,000 for making The Sand Pebbles for 20th Century-Fox spend his time cow trailing on a motorcycle? 'It's the clean smell of the desert in the morning. The satisfaction of setting up a rig and having it work perfectly in every way.'" 43 years ago Google via Knucklebuster...
Aug 26, 2009
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Motorcycles added to Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance
Champagne, white gloves, wicker picnic baskets, Jay Leno, Bugatti Veyrons. Yeah, that combination of words disgusts us too and it pretty much sums up the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, which will be featuring bikes for the first time this August. Wait, don't us greasy, counterculture bikers have our own fancy bike and C-list celebrity event in the form of Legend of the Motorcycle? Not anymore, ...
Apr 14, 2009