28 Mar
Japanese custom bike maker's latest... with Sony Security Cam

If you’ve ever wished there were such a thing as bike-cam, well, now there is. Japanese custom motorcycle mastermind Chicara Negata has married these ideas, creating a mechanical mash-up of a vintage 1966 Little Honda P25 engine meets a state-of-the-art Sony security-camera. Though Chicara has been making masterpieces out of vintage motorcycles and the like […]


12 Jun
Streetfighter style EV motorcycle with 80kw of green power

There are a lot of beautiful concept electric motorcycles popping up from studios around the world, such as the OSSA Monocasco Concept, the Honda RC-E, The Orphiro, zecOO and BPG Motors Uno III motorcycle/Segway hybrid. Adding to that list is the BOLT concept motorbike by Springtime Industrial Design. The all-electric concept incorporates aspects of the naked/streetfighter style of […]


Ask most girls what they would like to do best on a Sunday afternoon and I guarantee you’ll hear many say they’d like to hit Barney’s, NOT check out the East Side Moto Babes (ESMB) — a team of four female moto riders and enthusiasts who are serious racers of vintage motorcycles. Don’t get me wrong, […]


14 Nov
600cc-level performance in a 250cc-level body

Honda will unveil several new concepts at the Tokyo Motor Show next month, including this electric powered RC-E motorcycle. Because of the powertrain, the bike achieves 600cc-level performance in a 250cc-level body. The electric concept is outfitted with  Brembo brakes, Ohlins fork and shock and is shown in a Mike Hailwood colorway — plus it comes […]


10 Nov
A perfectly civilized way to settle a drunken beef

So you throw a house party and in the middle of the debaucherous festivities you catch your friend drunkenly throwing pistachio shells into your toilet, so you whip a can of Schlitz at his moronic head. The almost-full can hits him across the head, ricochets into your vanity mirror, shatters in an explosion of glass […]


26 Aug
And delivers the Honda CB100-based Inari

It’s not always the World’s Most Powerful and Expensive or World’s Most Exclusive or World’s Most Beautiful bikes that tickle our fancy, sometimes it’s the total opposite — especially if the heart and soul of the bike is pure. Such is the case with the Deus Canggu bike shop in Bali — an intersection of […]


3 Aug
Honda enters a whole new marketplace...and pricepoint

Honda entered the American market on the strength of its lightweight motorcycles, an invasion that almost heralded doom for Harley Davidson (and did sound the eventual death knell for most British manufacturers like BSA, Norton and Triumph). Then in the 1960s they introduced their first small cars into the Land of the Muscle Car and […]


11 Jun
Ossa, Triumph, BSA, Moto Guzzi, Ariel, Norton, Maserati, Velocette, Corbin, Husqvarna, Mondial, Matchless and Flanders

The fourth volume of vintage Motorcycle logos collected at the Quail Motorcycle Gathering (see Vol I, Vol II and Vol III here). This week look out for the Corbin electric motorcycle, Ariel and Velocette. Ossa, Triumph, BSA, Moto Guzzi,, Norton, Maserati, Husqvarna, Mondial, Matchless and Flanders as well. Enjoy volume 4, one final volume coming […]