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Another gem from the Selvedge Yard!
The Selvedge Yard is one of my favorite online sources for cool old motorcycle info as well as other Americana icons. He has an aesthetic I not only share but adore. I visit his site ofter, and am gloriously rewarded. Here is another jewel, The HD Archives. Along with it I found this wonderful video,…
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How Harleys gets to Sturgis? ; )
I don’t know why this cracked me up so much, but it did. Do Harley riders do distance? I know we are all on two wheels, but it seems many of us are on four first, then two for the image. Does trailering really take less time or money? I simply don’t understand.
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Sex sells…
I found this official Harley ad entitled Legs, which was run in Brazil in 2001. The ad campaign was never used here in the USA. Though offended by the stereotype, I am also confused by the visual presentation. The motorcycle is as comfortable as an office chair? One’s crossed legs are denied the freedom of…
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My Grandmother’s 1922 Moto trip–Ongoing discovery
After posting my grandmother’s photo album on my blog, I have been approached by a few people with some great advice to assist with identifying the other riders in the album and the route they possibly took crossing the Sierra Nevada Range out of Yosemite. So here’s some additional information that I recently received. My…
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Bikes and Babes-Art and the Female Rider
Well, now this subject was a bit more difficult to research and find any “real” art featuring women riders. Mostly I found either cult like pieces of women on motorcycles or bikini clad calendar girls draped over bikes. But here is the offering from this research including some very relevant credible female rider artists! Unknown…
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Photographs of my Grandmother’s 1922 motorcycle trip in California astride a Harley Davidson with a sidecar
I began a post a day ago regarding the history of women in motorcycling, and ended it with a couple of photographs that my mother and I had found of my grandmother. She was in moto-garb and astride an old Harley Davidson. Amazed when we found these, it was a total surprise to both my…