Walter Muma held the record for the longest moped trip for 19 years. In 1978 he set out from Toronto on a journey to Alaska on a little moped. I love Canadians.
Spoiler Alert: Unlike Christopher McCandless, Walter survived.
Unidentified, 1950′s, dry lakes. ’29 roadster. Looks like a movie still, doesn’t it?
And here is a lady that is less interested in chatting and more in driving… it looks like she is just starting her project. via The H.A.M.B.
Interesting British bicycles, use of space frame is unusual. Apparently Moulton Bicycle Company pioneered the whole small-tires-bicycle thing back in the ’60′s. More of these on Moulton’s site here.
Nice CB175 for 1k, amazing deal. It is probably already sold.
It isn’t how fast you are going, it’s how fast you feel like you are going.
This BMW racer from 1937 is stunning. The windshield is great, and the instrumentation beautiful- somehow I think that dash looks better now than it did new. Notice the white gear shift knob, interesting, and the tool kit is elegant. An interesting thing about this car was that it used magnesium aluminum alloy extensively, which in 1937 was pretty extreme. Oh, and speaking of extreme, it sold for 4.5 million euros this past march.
There is a great article on this car here.
There are few bikes that approach the motorcycle-ness of the Norton Dominator. It’s just to classic for me to use many words.
Via the always reliable Yesterdays
The Jalopy Journal has a great article here on Stuart Hilborn (above) , the godfather of fuel injection. Worth a read.
I have wanted a pair of motorcycle boots for a while and have not been able to settle on anything. There are a lot of Frye boots that look really good, but there are a couple of things that have prevented me from getting a pair. For one thing, even though they have a great history as an American boot company, some of their boots are made in China now and some are still made in the USA, so you have to look on the inside of the boot to know what you are getting.
What really stopped me from buying Frye boots, though, was the fact that there is nowhere to try them on. I contacted their corporate office last fall and they suggested that I order pairs and return them until I found the right size. No thanks, I don’t have the time- that will work as well as for me as the BMG Music Club. I ended up buying a pair of vintage Frye boots off of ebay that were made in the USA and are really sweet. To bad they don’t fit- looks like I would have been better buying from Frye after all. If anyone wants to buy them, they are size 12 D.
So my search for a boot continues, and I have found a candidate: Corcoran 1500′s.
I first noticed these jump boots in Band of Brothers. Corcoran supplied jump boots to the Army Airborne troops during WWII, though they were brown, not black. They are still made in the USA, and are quite a bit less expensive than Fryes. How can this be? It may be because Corcoran is a subsidiary of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, and they can make do with a modest, steady profit. Buy a pair here for under $160.
In one hundred years we have learned how to squeeze more power out of a cubic centimeter of cylinder volume than many in 1910 would have thought would ever be possible, but we have not become much better at making engines pretty. Via yesterdays.
