Well, the 75th Anniversary of Daytona Bike Week is happening right now and if you’re unfortunately like me, you’re stuck somewhere else, wishing you could check out the festivities. If that’s the case, take a couple of minutes out of your morning to enjoy some photos from Steve King, who’s been kind enough to share his photos from the first …
Picture Intermission – “Cool Girls Riding Their Motorbikes”
One last trip back to Flashbak, a website that collects all kinds of media from the past “with one aim – to make the past come alive.” This time it’s for a great collection of vintage photos of women with their motorcycles – like the featured photo above of a stuntwoman (Doris Smith, aka Marjorie Dare) conquering a Wall of …
Text Intermission – The First Cross-Country Motorcycle Trip
Sarah Laskow of Atlas Obscura just shared the great story of George Wyman, a motorcyclist who rode from San Francisco to New York over fifty days in 1903. It was grueling – he had to pedal the last 150 miles because the engine quit, but he made it! And here’s what most people don’t know – he was the first …
Gift Intermission – Nicetrails
Alright, this is a little bit different, but I think it could become a cool gift idea if you’ve got some cool GPS tracks laying around from your last off-road ride…
Video Intermission – 70s AMF/Harley-Davidson Ad
I love me some vintage motorcycle ads, so here’s one from the AMF/Harley days advertising their SS250 street bike. The idea was that it looks so close to the 1,000cc Harley that it has to be just as powerful/good/name an adjective.”Until you been on a Harley-Davidson, you haven’t been on a motorcycle.”
Video Intermission – My Life In One Line
You already know that I love the TV show Archer, but another one of my favorites has to be Brooklyn Nine-Nine, a police comedy where the resident badass is Rosa Diaz. There’s been plenty of references to her riding a motorcycle in the show, but this week’s episode yielded the perfect line for her character (and a sentiment that many …
Video Intermission – Motocross v. Soccer
Is it an entirely fair comparison? No. Is it funny nonetheless? You tell me.
List Intermission – The 80 Best Bikes of All Time
In a move that I’m sure will have no dissenters, Devitt Insurance compiled a list of the 80 best motorcycles in history to celebrate their 80th anniversary of providing motorcycle insurance. There might be a slight nationalistic bias here – The first 7 (and 9 out of the top 10) are British bikes! What do you think of the list?
Picture Intermission – Motorcycles of the 1920s
As a complement to the Audio Intermission about the history of motorcycles in the 20s, here’s a cool trip back in time to the 20s – this time with visual aids.
Video Intermission – 360 Degree Practice Lap
I was just talking to a friend about how there isn’t enough video footage out there that’s using 360 degree technology – and then I saw this practice lap from the Northwest 200. After you hit play, you can click and drag your mouse to rotate the point of view – it’s pretty nifty!
Video Intermission – Carl Reese at MAX BMW
You may have heard of Carl Reese in the last few weeks – he’s made some waves recently for setting a record by riding from Los Angeles to New York City in less than 39 hours (on a BMW K1600GT). On Saturday, he gave a presentation at MAX BMW, and thankfully the dealer recorded it so you can now watch …
Picture Intermission – The ONE Show
Much to my chagrin, I had to stay in Los Angeles last weekend while See See Motorcycles was hosting The ONE Show. Thankfully, Union Garage sent over Ryan Handt to take a look, and he put together a list of 21 stars.
Audio Intermission – The Cycle Industry in 1921
Here’s a cool trip back in time: an audio recording of “The Cycle Industry: Its origin, history, and latest developments” by Walter Ferdinando Grew, originally published in 1921!
Video Intermission – Allen Millyard’s V-Twin Hondas
Allen Millyard has built all kinds of cool things in the past, like a motorcycle powered by the V-10 engine from a Dodge Viper, a V-12 made up of two Kawasaki KZ1300 powerplants, or the Flying Millyard, a bike with a 5,000cc V-Twin using two cylinders from a Pratt and Whitney 1340 radial engine. But my favorite contraption out of …
Video Intermission – Enjoying The Snow
Feel bad because there’s a ton of snow outside and you can’t enjoy your bike? Well, you can either move out to Los Angeles with me (where the weather is currently 81 degrees, no big deal) or you can bundle up like Chris McMahan and say, ‘screw it.’