Mike Wolfe paired down his collection and sold several at the Mecum auction in Las Vegas. Mecum Auction SEVERAL OF US know of Mike Wolfe from his “American Pickers” TV show, where he travels the … [Weiterlesen...]
Mean Green Machine: VSB’s Kawasaki KZ1000R S1 replica
Even if you know very little about Kawasaki’s history, you probably know about the KZ1000R Eddie Lawson Replica. Released in 1982, it was a limited edition motorcycle based on the one that … [Weiterlesen...]
La Vita in Verde: An Aermacchi 250 restomod from Austria
Italy boasts some of the most storied marques in motorcycling, many of which are still prolific today. But the annals of Italian motorcycle history are also littered with companies that didn’t … [Weiterlesen...]
Resurrection: Bill Becker’s FB Mondial restomod
If you live outside Italy, you may not have heard of FB Mondial. But the marque is familiar to Europeans of a certain age, because it dominated the Grand Prix scene in the 1950s—and collected multiple … [Weiterlesen...]
Eight of the Most Influential Japanese Motorcycles Ever
After the Japanese got serious about making motorcycles in the late 1960s, bikes from every country became more sophisticated, more refined, more practical, and more reliable. Back then, no American … [Weiterlesen...]
Suspended restoration: Retrospeed’s immaculate FN M13
There’s not much that still surprises us these days, but you can’t beat a crazy suspension setup. And they don’t come much stranger than the bizarre cantilever arrangement used on Fabrique Nationale … [Weiterlesen...]
Sled Heaven: Paul Hartman’s Triumph TR6 desert sled
Is there any motorcycle genre more evocative than the ‘desert sled’? The very name conjures up images of blasting across the sandy shrublands of Baja. ‘Dual sport’ or ‘enduro’ just doesn’t cut it. For … [Weiterlesen...]
New Life for an Old Soul: A Norton 16H from South Africa
In today’s digitally saturated world, communication is seamless, relentless and overwhelming. But Vic Matthews is part of a generation that didn’t grow up on the internet—his digital … [Weiterlesen...]
