Transportation It’s finally warm again today but you never know what the rest of the winter may bring. For those of you who insist on riding not matter what. The next best thing to a Zamboni. Phil Rudge, writes about rebuilding a 1931 Rudge Ulster. Did you know that EMI once owned a motorcycle manufacturer? I didn’t. …
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Morning Linkage (Dec 14)
Transportation Indonesia born Charles Burki did illustrations in the 30’s and 40’s. Vintagent brings us a couple of Norton’s done from memory while he was held in a Japanese prison camp. There’s a flickr photostream for every interest including Citroens. This old van is unlabeled but cool in a rusty old way. A much nicer old (style) truck …
Morning Linkage (Dec 10)
Transportation Love the bike, love the picture. Follow the link at the bottom for the full gallery — music warning on the link. For 2010, the Thruxton SE. I’m going to figure out how to get the black cases on the one in the shop. Trains and sidecars. Yay. More trains. A Life gallery of box car …
Morning Linkage (Dec 10)
Transportation I adore the rear fender on this Bonneville custom. New builder too, hmmm. Mad Max, 1979. I only kind of got the bike thing back then; I wanted the black interceptor. Lots of people loved the bikes. Especially Goose’s police bike, liked it enough to build replicas. Lots of them. A summary and a bunch of …
Morning Linkage (Dec 7)
Transportation American Motor Drome and the Wall of Death. And a woman named Sam who rides a ’31 Indian. Hitting the pages of the WSJ means something. In this case that motorcycles have blipped the radar of the rich and lovely. A couple of nice pics and some commentary. BMW goes with black and white …