Although the Indian Railways issue constant safety warnings and do their best to keep people safe, people certainly have no problems ignoring them. They can often be seen crossing the tracks just seconds before a train speeds through. And for one careless biker, that was nearly a disastrous decision. Seen in a video that has […]
Alasdair Macintyre, Australian Catholic University Review: The Motorcycle — Art, Design, Desire at Queensland Art Gallery of Modern Art Motorcycles are such a guy thing, right? Think Steve McQueen in The Great Escape, Arthur Fonzarelli in television’s Happy Days and Daniel Craig’s James Bond. All blokes, exuding controlled coolness, astride impressively loud, throbbing engines. Yet […]
Daniel McKay, University of Cambridge At 11am on November 11 1919 a great silence fell over the British Empire. Everywhere people stood silently: in their workplaces, on the street, assembled in public squares, before war memorials and in churches from Sydney to Ontario and New Delhi to Edinburgh. At the Cenotaph in London, visiting Australian […]
The main hazards are related to the high G-forces, however. If you pass out, then the worst fear is that you’ll fly out of the top of the arena and hit the roof truss. Hugh Hunt, University of Cambridge The Wall of Death has been the most enigmatic dare-devil motorbike stunt for more than 100 […]
In recent years, many great British brands have pulled their shutters down or have been acquired by companies based overseas. Some British brands have, however, managed to make a comeback from dire straits. Dr Mike Cooray, Hult International Business School and Dr Rikke Duus, UCL Brands are difficult to build, manage and protect. In recent […]
“I am, after all, a free Black woman motorcycling across the country unimpeded—but I also believe it’s our job to make sure that dream doesn’t turn into a nightmare,” Porsche Taylor, Black Girls Ride founder. The six women rode their motorcycles nearly 3,000 miles Cross-Country over four consecutive days, in the name of civil rights. […]
Inside the world’s largest motorcycle gathering, where scale reveals perspective, machines start conversations, and what you carry home has as much to do with people as bikes. To walk the halls of EICMA is to feel the motorcycle world at full scale—its ambitions, contradictions, and shared obsessions moving past you all at once. The Scale […]
Take an online virtual tour of the Ducati museum in Bologna, Italy, from the comfort of your living room using Google Street View. Ducati recently celebrated its 90th anniversary, and part of the celebration included the renovation of the museum. The museum which opened its doors in 1998 and has seen over half a million […]
In recent years the UK has seen an unprecedented number of crimes committed on scooters and other 2 wheeled vehicles, which have been stolen for their ease of use in smash & grab, bag snatching and most notably, the theft of mobile phones, due to the increase in the value of their spare parts. With […]
Founded by Robert B. Haas, The Haas Moto Museum in Dallas, Texas, displays the evolution of cycles from 1901. The museum features an impressive custom collection of 27 one-of-a-kind cycles. The Haas collection contains over 170 cycles spanning 12 decades and is housed in two venues, The Haas Moto Museum & Sculpture Gallery and the […]