Motorcycles

Fast Facts Maserati began as two companies, one making spark plugs, and the other making automobiles. The spark plug company was started by Alfieri Maserati in 1914 and was kept very busy supplying spark plugs for…

The Vincent Black Lightning was the culmination of British designer Phil Vincent’s quest to create the world’s greatest motorcycle. It was the racing version of his iconic Vincent Black Shadow, stripped of everything not needed on…

It Began With a Gilded Cage and the Bicycle Craze You’ve no doubt heard of the song “Only a bird in a guilded cage…” and the manufacture of delicate guilded cages was the way the Heinz,…

The Brough Superior and the Brough “Inferior” George Brough’s father, William Edward Brough, was a motorcycle aficionado and was a knowledgeable and respected maker of motorcycles, so young George Brough grew up involved in his father’s…

If you suspect that the name “Fikobike” sounds a bit like  “psycho-bike” then you understand the thinking behind oil man Lee Fikes decision to take his perfectly good 1967 BMW R60 and rebuild it into his…

A Motorcycle Not for the Masses George Brough’s family appears to have been quite involved with motorcycles and competition. George stated in later Brough Superior advertising that he had competed in his first motorcycle event in…