Showing posts with label Racing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Racing. Show all posts

Friday, July 8, 2011

British motorcyclist Eric C. Fernihough on his Brough Superior motor cycle. Fernihough was killed in Budapest in an attempt to regain the world motorcycle speed record which he lost...perhaps his black cat mascot was a poor choice. Via: Corbis

Thursday, July 7, 2011

Laying down on the job: The innovative Norton "Kneeler" of 1953

Sunday, July 3, 2011

"A quarter of a century ago a very small boy, rummaging in the family wastepaper basket, found a catalogue of motor-cycles and their accessories. He kept it, studied it, and from it learned to name the component parts of the machines he saw. It was dearer than any story book to him, for from it sprung a deep-rooted interest in motor-cycles that filled his life. That small boy was I."
The full story at Mot'Art
(Private collection)