photography Articles
Photos: 2013 Husaberg range
For 2013, every model in the Husaberg range adopts a ChroMoly double cradle frame while modifications like larger airboxes and electric start expand through both its two and four-stroke range. But really, the big deal here is that the brand continues to adopt lessons from skate photography — unusual perspectives, popped flashes, vibrant colors, exciting action — to show off its bikes in a refr...
13 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
29 photos of motorcycles in impossible places
Up a wall, down a slide, on top of a stadium, underneath a boat; freestyle trials riders are taking motorcycles to hitherto impossible impossible places all in pursuit of one prize — a stunning image. Here's 29 of the best ever taken. Lead by riders like Dougie Lampkin (up top) and Julien Dupont (below), trials is braking out of remote venues and the upper echelons of cable TV to become a visu...
18 April 2012
Pulling wheelies on the Burj al Arab’s helipad
Just 79 feet wide and dropping 690 feet to the ocean below, the helicopter pad hanging off the side of Dubai’s Burj al Arab is hardly the kind of place you or I would want to pull a wheelie, but that’s just what FMX athlete Danny Torres did yesterday to promote an upcoming round of Red Bull X-Fighters in the emirate. With the Burj Khalifa in the background, these are stunning photos. Photos:...
12 April 2012
40 photos of the KTM Freeride 350 in Morocco
With a detuned, but still very light 350cc single housed in a hybrid steel/aluminum/plastic chassis, the KTM Freeride 350 promises to bring high-end dirt bike capability to a light, affordable, accessible package. Think of it as a cross between a trials bike and an enduro racer, combining the former's weight (just 218lbs) with the latter's performance. It's coming to the states next year, but for ...
27 March 2012
Photos: an R1 in the sand dunes
How’s this for a magazine cover? With the help of Yamaha Europe and Michelin, French mag L’Integral equipped 10-time Dakar winner Stephane Peterhansel with a 50th Anniversary R1 and sent him to the Sahara desert to grab these images on the huge sand dunes there. The only modifications necessary? A set of bar risers and a pair of race wets, the rear hand-cut to form paddles. And I thought I was...
26 March 2012
What The Snake looked like in 1983
These photos, snapped by Tom Wing between 1980 and 1983, reveal a time on Mulholland Highway before digital retouching, R1s and the Internet. You know what? The lines and styles of these riders actually look faster than the extreme lean angles (achieved at the expense of everything else) sought out by today's riders. Update: as Pat points out in comments, that's an '86 GSX-R750, so the photo was...
16 February 2012
All the best Dakar bike photos in one place
In this photo, Italian rider Paolo Ceci can be seen crossing the trackless waste of Peru’s Nazca desert. Like no other race in the world, the Dakar pits riders against the harshest conditions on earth for 5,025 miles of racing across 14 days. The result is personal accomplishment for the racers and stunning, unique images for us, as we mire away the winter at home in front of our computers. Here...
17 January 2012
The top 10 Dakar photos, so far
Dakar: most epic motorcycle race on Earth. Dakar: too big, too wild and too much for even its organizers to cover effectively. A list of names next to a list of times does little to capture the sheer magnitude of the undertaking. 5,000km, off-road, in 14 days. A minute-long video recap can’t do it justice, but somehow, frozen in time, images seem too. Take this shot for example. That’s just ...
09 January 2012
Behind the scenes at Moto Guzzi HQ
It shouldn’t exist. Nestled in the alps, on the shores of Lake Como, red tile roofs cover ramshackle buildings that went up gradually sometime between World Wars I and II. It’s not just the dark, cramped buildings that jar with the clinical world of modern motorcycle production either; crack open one of the ancient windows and the view is inevitably of rocky alpine peaks, any way you look. Rat...
20 September 2011