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BROUGH SUPERIOR 'RETURN TO THE SALT' PREVIEW 22 Aug 2013 | 09:50 pm
Rider Eric Patterson aboard the 1150cc Brough Superior 'Roadrunner' with new, shapely streamlining, similar in feel to the 1930s Brough record-breaker 'Leaping Lena' The Ace Café sponsored a preview ...
'TON UP!' - CAFE RACERS IN STURGIS 22 Aug 2013 | 12:01 pm
When photographer Michael Lichter invited me to co-curate a show of Café Racers for Sturgis Bike Week, I immediately said yes. I'd met Michael while he was the official photographer of the Motorcycle...
GESTALTEN'S 'DO THE RIDE THING' 21 Aug 2013 | 06:40 pm
Shot mostly in Biarritz during Wheels+Waves last June, this short film includes many of the machines featured in the the Gestalten/BikeExif book, 'The Ride', which arrived at the publisher's offices i...
'BEHIND THE TON UP BOYS', A 1964 FILM 18 Aug 2013 | 12:01 pm
YouTube provides endless opportunities for your motorcycling entertainment! This film, from the BBC's 'Look at Life' series, dates from 1964, and while it denigrates the 'Ton Up Boys', they certainly...
'TON UP!' EXHIBIT IN CYRIL HUZE POST 13 Aug 2013 | 12:01 pm
This has been an incredibly busy summer for The Vintagent: writing a big chunk of the BikeExif/Gestalten book 'The Ride', organizing the 'Ton Up!' exhibit for Sturgis Bike Week, and writing the 'Ton U...
IAN BARRY AT KOHN GALLERY: FROM THE NYT 12 Aug 2013 | 09:33 pm
While I was in Sturgis installing the 'TonUp!' exhibit, this article cropped up in the New York Times, which I reprint here in its entirety, with the accompanying photos. I'll post my own photos and ...
JEFF DECKER'S 'BLACK LIGHTNING' AT AUCTION 2 Aug 2013 | 08:24 am
From the Bonhams Quail Lodge auction catalog (which I wrote!): Jeff Decker is rightly famous for his sculpture, “the motorcycle equivalent of Frederick Remington”, which has earned him the position o...
'THE RIDE' HITS THE BOOKSHOPS 1 Aug 2013 | 07:35 pm
Apologies for being near-absent a few weeks on TheVintagent, but I've been finishing my contribution to the BikeExif book, 'The Ride', published by Gestalten in Berlin, which I co-wrote with Chris Hun...
'PENDINE' AT PENDINE 13 Jul 2013 | 07:05 am
The Vintagent's very irregular correspondent Mike Jackson sends these notes regarding the inaugural Pendine Sands racing weekend last June: The beautiful new Brough Superior SS101 Pendine "The newly...
BILL PHELPS PHOTO ESSAY W+W 10 Jul 2013 | 08:09 pm
Photographer extraordinaire, the enigmatic and moody work of Brooklyn's Bill Phelps has been featured previously on The Vintagent. He brought those images, and quite a few newer ones of women in the ...
