Wednesday 2nd December, 2009
You don’t often see motorcycles featured in fine art photography; Bill Phelps is the only name we’ve come across in the past. But now there’s a new one to watch: Elizabeth Raab, a photographic artist specializing in automotive and creative portraiture. Like Phelps, Raab is based in Brooklyn, but her career kickstarted when she moved [...]
Wednesday 23rd September, 2009
Last night I finished reading Riding With Rilke, Ted Bishop’s low-key, thoughtful memoir of a road trip across America. So it was perfect timing when a hardback review copy of Motorcycle Dream Garages arrived this morning. The text and photos are by Lee Klancher, who built a garage bigger than his house in 2004 and [...]
A good photographer can give even the most humble motorcycle a touch of glamour. And Joshua Hoffman’s use of ringflash has made us look at the Honda C70 in a new light. The C70 was a grown-up version of the Honda Super Cub, with a little more power and a dizzying top speed of 50 [...]
Randall Cordero is one of America’s top motorcycle photographers, and his shots of this ‘bumblebee’ Yamaha caught our eye. This 1978 500cc thumper is owned by veteran rider Russ Somers, an art director for Simpson Race Products. It’s packing a White Brothers cam, a flatside carb and a SuperTrapp muffler. Appearances are taken care of [...]
Thursday 23rd April, 2009
The Honda CT110 is a diminutive 105cc, air-cooled, single cylinder motorcycle. It’s used in Australia for postal deliveries, and renowned for its toughness. It’s also the selected transport for a bizarre 2,000 mile race across the outback, the Postie Bike Challenge. The eighth annual race starts on 3 October 2009, and it costs just AU$4950 [...]
This one’s from my own backyard, and I can’t believe I haven’t come across it before. The Lovers’ Land Bike Tour is about three guys who ride out from Sydney on custom W650s, with surfboards strapped to the side. The plan was simple: to “find good waves and hang with good people”. The result is [...]
Leigh Ledare is an artist who has gained an edgy, provocative reputation over the last couple of years. He splits his time between New York and Los Angeles, but a recent visit to Europe yielded these strangely evocative images of Russian biker gangs. [Via Way Out!]
Todd Selby takes pictures of interesting people and their creative spaces. Jeff Johnson runs Choke, a shop just off Santa Monica Boulevard in LA that sells coffee and motorcycle gear. The photos are great.
Wednesday 11th March, 2009
The books in Rin Tanaka’s stunning My Freedamn! series are lovingly-produced, high-quality guides to counter-culture apparel. One of the most covetable is #3, which focuses on vintage motorcycle clothing. These volumes are expensive: if they’re out of print, they’ll set you back $100 or more. Fortunately, Tanaka’s mainstream books are more affordable, at around $50 [...]
