Four from the Quail
Continuing a trend in motion for years, the face of vintage motorcycling has changed. Not wholesale changes and certainly not overnight, but slowly evolving to include not just numbers-matching, 100% correct and original motorcycles, but those classically modified. As I've written before, each year brings into the vintage realm a new crop of models and in step, their increasingly modernized features. Like the Detroit muscle car phenomenon of the mid 1990s, purpose-built superbikes and sports models are strongly en vogue, and with them, a fascinating sub-culture of period hybrid specials...more
Bike of the Month
Honda Super Blackbird
Competition. That powerful force driving everything from corporations to countries. At odds and sharing a mutual dislike, the Japanese motorcycle makers have battled for over 50-years, leapfrogging annually or even biannually to claim the throne of horsepower and top speed. For the three-years that spanned between 1997 and 1999, that crown belonged to the Honda CBR1100XX Super Blackbird. Read more
May Poll
