Nurenberg resident Siegfried Bettmann came to Britain and in 1886 founded the Triumph Bicycle factory in Coventry, England. He continued making bicycles there and then in 1896 went back to his home town of Nurenberg and…
I sometimes wonder why some people, especially young men, are so attracted to big heavy high powered motorcycles when you can have so much fun on something a lot smaller. The big bike might go faster…
The Ariel Square Four is a pretty unique piece of British engineering that essentially has two, two cylinder engines with two crankshafts joined together as one unit. Hence the “square four” name. The engine was originally…
British motorcycle maker Velocette began back in 1905 as a partnership between two men; William Gue and John Taylor (who later changed his name to Goodman). Their first motorcycle they called the Veloce and then later…
The Henderson was the bike that in 1922 beat Harley-Davidson fair and square. Henderson had been showing their motorcycle to the Chicago Police Department and the police were interested in this four cylinder bike that Henderson…
When I began learning a Japanese sword art over a decade ago I was told that if you ask a Japanese teacher why he practices the Japanese sword that he will skillfully change the subject and…
