Named after the late World Champion Grand Prix motorcycle racer Barry Sheene, the Icon Sheene aims to be the world’s most expensive and most powerful production motorcycle. And if it generates its expected 250+ horsepower, and they charge the announced $160,000 (£107,000), it certainly will be. Icon Motorcycle founder Andrew Morris plans on producing only 52 […]

I worked with Scott Pommier this past summer on a magazine photoshoot and I was immediately struck with his creative eye, not to mention a precise professionalism usually reserved for accountants and mob hitmen. Later he sent me some photos of a row of bobber motorcycles he shot at a bike show and I realized […]

Italian motorcycle company Alpinestars makes among the best riding gear available, and recently they’ve been making the jump into traditional clothing — a natural move in these post-streetwear times (remember their Shibuya release?). Now they’re about to launch their Apexinitiative, and for the first edition they’ve partnered with Fatlace  — but don’t think they’ve forsaken […]

My friend Angry Dave gave me this old rundown Yamaha Verago 750 a couple years back, cos he worked at a dealership in SD and it was just sorta lying around. I thought it was awesome, amazing actually, and I took a couple lessons with him but soon the battery died and I just sort […]

When you roll up to the track all cool like, you wanna be towing your rice-rocket by a dinged-up F15O? What you wanna look like, a caveman when you take off that helmet? Hell no, that shit is pedestrian. With the impossibly stylish in mind, Ducati unveiled their new collaboration with Toyota at SEMA this […]

Ever since driving the new Monster 696 last month, I’ve completely fallen in love with Ducati. Now they’ve just launched a limited edition Ducati Hypermotard with luxury retailer Neiman Marcus, which is an odd pairing cos the Hypermotard is Ducati’s best “performance” bike — meaning, as it’s a supermotard, you get all the control benefits […]

Pasadena Art Center student Jake Loniak designed this amazingly bad ass vertical motorcycle…err, tricycle. I mean tripod. Whatever. The Deus Ex Machina (which is Latin for “Dope Ass Machine”) is straight out of an HR Geiger mechanized dream, cross-fertilized with that creature from Cloverfield. The electric concept is controlled by 36 pneumatic muscles, and is […]

I’ve been silently wishing for someone to bring back the motorcycle with sidecar. Sure, its basically death-on-a-scooter for the dude in the sidecar but…well…what the hell you doing in a sidecar anyway, fruity? Unless your name is Professor Henry Jones (or you have boobies), this look is just not right. Lucky for my pointless daydreaming, […]