"INFLUX: Can you give us an overview of the Bowler and the UK Off Road racing scene? JON CHESTER: The UK Off Road scene is interesting, it’s changing all the time. There are some really active clubs and series "
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Stephane Peterhansel: Dakar hero on two wheels and four…
"You have probably never heard of Stephane Peterhansel. But he is one of the greatest racing drivers of all time. Oh, and he's one of the greatest motorcycle racers of all time too. In France, Rally Raid desert racing is "
Initial D and Takumi Fujiwara: The Virtual Star of Generation Drift
"Japanese culture is all about exaggeration and amplification. Manga character Takumi Fujiwara from Initial D is the perfect example of this. The manga scene turned its gaze onto the Hashiriya street racing scene in the mid-nineties. Its founding hero was "
Saab 96 made a virtue out of eccentricity
"My headmistress had a Saab 96. In orange. She was strange. An intellectual misfit. The sort of teacher you used to find in schools of the 1970s. A feminist when feminists were few and far between. Especially in East London. She "
Rick Rasmussen: The A Team Van Man
"We were thinking about who has been most influential in the world of van life. Tough one to call. My thoughts turned naturally to - and then immediately away from - the Dutch importer Ben Pon and the VW Camper. "
Steve McQueen in Popular Science
"The Steve McQueen industry reached its peak a while ago. The talismanic actor, motorcycle racer, and general petrolhead's every grease and benzine related utterance or action has been pored over, analysed and fetishised by every channel, 'tube and feed on "
Robert Opron: The Art of the Automobile
"There’s a book you can get called ‘Robert Opron: L’Automobile Et L’Art’. We haven’t read it because it’s incredibly hard to find and will set you back nearly £200 - but if you Google around you "
On Weekend by Jean-Luc Godard
"When you glance back to the art being made in Europe around the time of the May ’68 student riots, there’s often a desire to connect the Molotov ministrations that were occurring on the streets to the palpable sense of "
Wheels and Waves in the Basque Country
" We love Wheels and Waves. It's the annual gathering in the Basque Country organised by the Southsiders MC. And it is where the cultures of motorcycles and the (sort of) surfing intersect. We've been documenting the rise and rise of "
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 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, "
Elon Musk and Tesla: changing perceptions and realities
"Should Elon Musk really be compared to the likes of Steve Jobs, Howard Hughes and Henry Ford? Like Jobs he makes innovative physical things that challenge and disrupt established markets. Like Hughes he’s a mega rich industrialist and aviator "