The Isle of Man TT is, without doubt, the most dangerous race on the planet. In a similar vein to the World’s Fastest Indian at Bonneville in the 1960s, in 1994 New Zealand inventor John Britten and his team brought their futuristic racing motorcycle to this infamous race. John Britten turned motorcycle design on its […]
Great write up over at Atlas Obscura about Bessie Stringfield. In the 1930s, Bessie Stringfield practically disappeared in a cloud of smoke, bolting across the walls of a wooden, bowl-shaped arena: the Wall of Death. She was on her way across the country, traveling completely alone—again—on a Harley. Bessie Stringfield, an African-American Bostonian originally from Jamaica, had already […]
You know when they say ” if it’s sounds too good to be true…” well they are right. Thanks for getting my hopes up, and then crushing my dreams… again! Dicks. Harley Davidson has announced they will return to Super Bike racing and are resurrecting the VR 1000 program. Milwaukee, Wisconsin was the site of […]
World War II marked the largest deployment of motorcycles by the US Military in an armed conflict. The bulk of those machines were built by Harley-Davidson, who provided the US and their Allies with the now famous model WLA. Although exact production numbers are not known, it is estimated that over 80,000 WLAs and their […]