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Honda Classics: Motorbike Spotting with Mel Tormé
"Cool cats come in all sorts of flavours. And the very notion of cool floats and ebbs and flows and morphs over time. Mel Tormé here, for example, sometime in the mid-fifties in a tux and patent leather shoes, gathers "
Scooter Art: Selling the Dream
"The birth of the scooter coincided precisely with the post-war boom in the consumer economy. And along with the industrial boom came an explosion in what used to be called 'Commercial Art'. This was the age of the Ad Man. "
Vespa T5 Mk1: Pole Position, 1985
"The 125cc Vespa T5 was arguably the last sports Vespa developed and produced by Piaggio, the creators of the Vespa scooter. Launched in 1985 the T5 can trace its roots back to the first Vespa Gran Sport 150 (GS) of 1955, which was "
Scooter mania! Teenagers and the Freedom Principle
" What does the scooter mean to you? It depends of course on your perspective. For some, the small displacement, step through scooter (with a skirt) is redolent of mid-century modernism, evoking the smells of Soho coffee bars and the texture "
Scooter Designer: Corradino D’Ascanio
"Whatever your scooter preference - the long, sleek slimness of the Lambretta or the relatively substantial, reliable and zippy Vespa profile - the same artist-designer can be credited with coming up with the scooter formula. It was the end of "
Youth Culture & the scooter…
"No other vehicle has mobilised a youth culture like the humble motor scooter. And this little machine didn't just do it the once. It did it three times. Go on, think about it… Yeah ok, so there were young rockers, "
1980s Bike Crush: Honda CX500 Turbo
"We’ve said it before: your taste in motorcycles will be defined by the bikes that were cool at your time of bike consciousness. Usually this is somewhere around adolescence. So hitting this watershed in the early eighties, the Honda "
Zaeta: Street Trackers with chops…
"Artwork By Maxwell Paternoster, pics from El Solitario There’s something perennially appealing about the street/tracker setup. And none so appealing as the Zaeta. And El Solitario MC recently blogged about a very special creation that hones the sit-up-and-beg "
Bikesploitation: The Mini Skirt Biker Mob
"Time was when the mix of girls and biker gangs was truly threatening. At least that’s what you’d be led to believe if you were a viewer of Bikesploitation flicks of the late sixties. It’s an absurd "
The Frog 750 concept makes us nostalgic for the future
"The eighties were a dynamic decade in car and bike design. But here in 2016 the motorcycle industry seems to be reaching solely for the retro in its high profile launches. Makes us nostalgic for the future. And especially concepts like "
Café Racer Culture : Up The Junction
"We were browsing in the old dusty stacks the other day and found this copy of Up The Junction, Nell Dunn's classic and controversial 1966 collection of stories of working class culture. Buried deep amongst the gritty tales of clip joints, "
Super Monkey Bike
"pics Michael Fordham/Influx We stumbled upon this cool little shop recently specialising in pimped Monkey Bikes. Spymonkey is a one man operation run by Hiro-san in Shizuoka, just outside Tokyo. Hiro's idea is simple. Take a Monkey Bike and "