Contributors' Notes
Paul Atkinson is a design historian, motorcyclist, and the subject leader of 3D Design at the University of Huddersfield, UK. He has published widely in the field of design history, notably about the design history of the computer, including articles in History and Technology, The Journal of Design History, and Design Issues (see paulatkinsondesign.com). Other areas of interest include the history of the DIY movement (see Atkinson, P Do It Yourself: Design and Democracy, Special Issue of the Journal of Design History Vol. 19 Iss. 1, 2006). His practice-based research interests are in mass-individualisation, and the impact of emerging technologies in generative software and rapid prototyping. His current motorcycle is a Triumph Daytona 900, although he has never really forgiven himself for selling a BMW R80GS.
Sudhir Atreya is a Senior Professor of Industrial Design at IIT Delhi, an expert in Computer Aided Design and responsible for the computer revolution in India. He has guided PhDs in areas such as Computer Aided Mould Design, Ergonomics and Environmental design. He has many designs, patents and research papers to his credit. He was presented the prestigious National Technology Award by the President of India for Outstanding Invention for the Welfare of the Visually Handicapped. Presently, he is the Coordinator and Chairman of the Industrial Design unit. His hobbies are teaching, and painting landscapes and portraits.
Matthew Biberman (smbibe01@louisville.edu) is an associate professor of English at the University of Louisville. When not teaching, he works with his father, Sidney Biberman, on Vincents. Matthew’s motorcycling memoir, Big Sid’s Vincati, will be published by Hudson St. Press in 2009. An earlier book, Vincents with Big Sid (Rapide Press, 1998) is available directly from Sid Biberman (bigsid@webtv.net). To learn more about Vincents and the Bibermans’ ongoing work, visit Matthew’s Big Sid website: http://www.mindspring.com/~bigsid/index.html
Sarah Boslaugh is a Senior Statistical Data Analyst for the School of Medicine at Washington University in St. Louis. She wants nothing more than to get a bike and ride all over the world on her own journey of discovery.
Barbara Brodman is Professor of Latin American & Caribbean Studies at Nova Southeastern University and author of a variety of scholarly works that deal with Latin American culture and affairs. Her 1997 journey through South America was widely covered by the media, while thousands followed her adventures online. Of particular interest to many was her mere two months experience riding a motorcycle before she embarked upon this journey. Dr. Brodman sits on the Boards of the Inter-American Center for Human Rights and the Global Awareness Institute, an environmental public charity of which she is founder. Scholar, humanitarian, and adventurer, Brodman's knowledge of global and Latin American affairs, and her hands-on approach to acquiring it, enthrall and inspire many students and non-students to whom she lectures regularly.
Sushil Chandra is a practicing design engineer with Hero Honda, the world’s largest
motorcycle manufacturer. He was part of the design team for “Splendor,” the
world’s largest selling motorcycle. Currently, he heads the design function,
which includes both studio and engineering. He is fascinated by the interplay of social, political and
philosophical aspects in the world of engineering design of artifacts.
Literature, especially poetry, both ancient and modern, happens to be his hot
button. Currently, he is pursuing a PhD in industrial design.
Amber R. Clifford is a member of the Socialist Party and an instructor of Anthropology at Central Missouri State University. She is also ABD in American Studies at the University of Kansas, where she is writing her dissertation on identity formation and sexuality in Kansas City's jazz scene. Amber lives in mid-Missouri with her partner Tara and their two dogs.
M. Shelly Conner is currently a teaching assistant and Ph.D.
student in the Program for Writers at the University of Illinois at Chicago
(UIC). She is a Gender and Women’s
Studies Concentrator focused in the areas of Black Queer Studies and 20th Century Novels by Women of the African Diaspora. Her fiction and academic work explores the intersections of
race, gender, and sexuality. Shelly owns a 1999 Yamaha Roadstar 1600, is a
certified MSF riding instructor, and is the Business Manager for the Chicago Chapter
of Immortal Soulz Motorcycle Club.
William Cummings is an associate professor of history at the University of South Florida. He is an ethnographic historian by temperament, and specializes in Southeast Asian history. His ride is an '03 Harley-Davidson Fat Boy.
Nan Curtis is currently Curator of Art at the Neville Public Museum in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Prior to joining the Neville, Curtis curated and co-curated a number of real and virtual exhibitions. Curtis’ popular exhibition, Hogs, Choppers and the Fat Boy: 100 years of Harley-Davidsons, appeared at the Neville in 2003. A graduate of Columbia College, Chicago (B.A. 1989), California State University, Northridge (M.A., 1999, cum laude), and the University of Michigan (M.S.I., 2002), Curtis has worked at the Henry Ford Museum, J.P. Getty Museum, Los Angeles County Museum, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago. She also has teaching experience at the University of Michigan, leads regular art history lectures at the Neville Public Museum, and has acted as a consultant for the art library at the Villa Corsi-Salvioti in Sesto-Fiorentino, Italy.
Michael J. Chappell is assistant professor in the English Department at Western Connecticut State University. He has published essays on Shelley, Milton, and Samuel Johnson. A motorcyclist for 35 years, he currently rides a 2003 Triumph and is restoring a 1973 Norton and 1980 Yamaha XS11. A founding member of New England's Hexnuts riding group—Live to Ride, Ride to Eat is their motto—his recent culinary motorcycle adventures have taken him to the Mid-Ohio Superbike races and to the Canadian Superbike races at Mosport.
Mary K. Coffey is the daughter of motorcycle riding parents and an assistant professor of the Art of the Americas in the Department of Art History at Dartmouth College. She has published numerous articles on the relationship between cultural policy and display and the disciplining of subaltern communities. Her work can be found in Cultural Studies and Communication journals, exhibition catalogs, and edited collections on the politics of social realism as well as neoliberal governance and museum policy. When she was seven, she and her father set out on a two week motorcycle trip to the Bicentennial celebrations in Washington DC, and thereafter, they hit the road on a succession of Hogs and touring bikes. Growing up in a household wherein Bach concertos, Grateful Dead lyrics, and Zen Buddhism mingled with talk of Springer front-ends, blue highways, and iron-butts has produced in her a healthy respect for the manifold ways in which culture is expressed and experienced.
Geoff Crowther is Director of the Leisure Consumer Research Group and
Principal Lecturer in the Department of Marketing at the Huddersfield University Business School, UK. Geoff has completed a number of research
studies of motorcycling including a study of the changing self-identities of
motorcyclists. Currently he is leading a research program supported by the
Motorcycle Industry Association examining motorcycle rider development. He
has been an active, enthusiastic motorcyclist for thirty years and is a
regular visitor to the Isle of Man TT races. He rides a BMW GS1150.
Chad DeMars is currently a Ph.D. student and teaching assistant at Texas Tech University where he received his MA in history in Aug, 2006. His academic focus is cultural/social history since 1877, and he has both an academic and personal interest in motorcycles and motorcycle culture. Chad has been riding off and on since he was six years old.
Sasha Disko is completing a Ph.D. in Modern European History at New York University. Her dissertation, "Men, Motorcycles and Modernity; A History of Motorization during the Weimar Republic," takes the historically specific and socially dynamic process of motorization as the basis for examining conflicts over the instable categories of class, gender and generation in 1920s Germany. She is currently a proud resident of the great borough of Brooklyn, however, she will be relocating to Berlin in Spring 2008 to commence a two year post-doctoral fellowship with the Transatlantische Graduiertenkolleg at the Center for Metropolitan Studies at the Technical University Berlin.
Michelle Ann Duff is a writer, photograher, publisher and Grand Prix Champion. She has always been opinionated and this fact has often gotten her into trouble. Details about mad8Publishing and her book, The Mike Duff Story, Make Haste, Slowly can be found on her web site: www.michelleduff.ca
William L. Dulaney, a Visiting Assistant Professor of Communication and Director of Oral Communication Competency at Western Carolina University, is a doctoral candidate in Communication Theory and Research at Florida State University and a former member of an outlaw motorcycle club. Dulaney's research is the product of five years of participant observation, ten years of experience “in the life,” and an intense personal desire to understand what it means to be an outlaw biker. He also examines organizational identity and communication in outlaw motorcycle clubs in order to help others come to share to the degree possible the outlaw bikers’ perspective. His primary research agenda centers on elucidating motorcycle club culture and exposing media myths about the outlaw motorcycle club subculture. You may contact him via e-mail at wdulaney@wcu.edu or by phone at (828) 227-2329.
Lisa Garber is a clinical social worker and author with a doctorate in clinical psychology. She has been treating eating disorders for twenty-one years. For the last seventeen years she has been riding her Harley, while wondering and writing about her attraction to the two-wheeled predator. Her musings led her to the crossroads where the union of Hermes and Bruhnhilde took place. It is from that perspective that she wrote her doctoral dissertation: “Women Who Ride: The Psyche of the Female Motorcyclist,” exploring the manifest myth of the female motorcyclist. Dr. Garber has been published in both biker and women’s magazines. A book based on her dissertation will soon be in print.
Leland Giovannelli is a generalist in education, profession, and preferences. She has degrees from St. John’s College (BA, Liberal Arts) and the University of Chicago (MA, General Studies in Humanities; Ph.D., History of Science) and currently teaches humanities and history of science and technology to engineering students at the University of Colorado in Boulder. An avid fan of soul music, pre-1960 films, water-color painting, and opera, she rides a 1983 BMW R65 motorcycle and a Raleigh hybrid 18-speed bicycle.
Tom Goodmann teaches
medieval and American studies at the University of Miami; he rides a BMW F650
GS, and pilots a Honda Shadow VT1100 with his wife, Shari, in the Champion
sidecar: it was all her idea, really. tgoodmann@miami.edu
Don Hennigan has been a teacher for thirty years in various schools in Texas. He currently teaches in a youth prison in Sheffield, Texas. He is also a graduate student at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas, and is currently working on a Ph.D. in Higher Education and History. His main focus is motorcycle culture, with an emphasis on outlaw club life. Hennigan has rode motorcycles since he was sixteen and currently rides a 2000 Harley Davidson FXWG.
Rick Hogan is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, where his special areas of interest were Plato and Nietzsche. He divides his time between Massachusetts, where the ride is a Road King Classic and Valencia, Spain, where it's a Sportster Roadster.
Timothy A. D. Holmes is a lecturer in the School of Journalism , Media and Cultural Studies at Cardiff University , Wales , specializing in the historical and cultural aspects of magazine journalism. He spent 15 years as a journalist and editor on a range of motorcycling titles in the UK , the final one his own publication. He shares a Triumph T140V with his wife and pours cash into a hole called "restoration of a 1960 Trophy 650."
Richard Hutch is Reader in Religion and Psychological Studies and Head of the School of History, Philosophy, Religion & Classics at the University of Queensland, Australia, where he has worked since 1978. Prior to this, he was on the academic staff of the Department of Religious Studies, Southern Illinois University. His degrees are the BA (Gettysburg College, 1967), BD (Yale University 1970), MA (University of Chicago, 1971) and PhD (University of Chicago, 1974). His work includes the books, Religious Leadership: Personality, History and Sacred Authority (1991), The Meaning of Lives: Biography, Autobiography and the Spiritual Quest (1997) and Lone Sailors and Spiritual Insights: Cases of Sport and Peril at Sea (2005), along with numerous articles in the areas of the psychology of religion, psychoanalysis, life-writing, sport and spirituality and the history of religions.
K. Alex Ilyasova is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Humanities at Michigan Technological University. Her research interests include literacy and identity studies, composition theory, and sexuality studies. When she is not obsessing over her dissertation, she spends time at home with her partner and son.
Dr. Barbara Joans is the Director of the Merritt Museum of anthropology and Chair of the Anthropology Department at Merritt College. She is also the author of BIKE LUST:Harleys, Women and American Society, University of Wisconsin Press, 2001. She has a monthly column with Thunder Press, BikeRest with BJ, and she lives in San Francisco with one husband, two Harleys, and three cats.
Gary Kieffner is an assistant instructor in the Department of History at the University of Texas at El Paso. His research focuses on power structures and relationships between ethnicity, race, economics, gender, geographical nationalism, and Borderlands culture. Kieffner has served the biker community through state and national riders’ civil rights organizations since 1983. With Steven Alford and Susan Buck, he edited Two Wheels to Freedom: Discovering Motorcycle Culture, forthcoming from the University of Wisconsin Press. A rider since 1978, his fifth and sixth motorcycles are a Harley-Davidson Sportster and a Volkswagen-Yamaha trike.
Matthew Kiesner has a
BA in Film Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara and a MA in
Film Studies from Emory University. He currently teaches film studies at Oxford
College of Emory University. His academic interests are in exploitation films,
subculture, Surrealism and gender studies. He collects obscure 1960s records
(including biker movie soundtracks), vintage musical equipment, original movie
posters and garish polyester clothing. Around Atlanta he is known to play in psychedelic
bands, put on various events and make
Steve Koerner has a BA in history from the University of Victoria (Canada) and a PhD in Social History from the University of Warwick (England). His The Strange Death of the British Motor Cycle Industry will be published in 2007 by Crucible Books. Koerner lives in Victoria B.C. Canada. He is a long-time motor cycle enthusiast and owns a 1958 500cc Matchless G-80, a 1974 850cc Norton Commando as well as a 2000 Harley-Davidson “Road King.”
Adele Kubein. After running away from home at the age of eleven and growing up through her teens on the streets of San Francisco under the protection of the Daly City Chapter of the Hells Angels, Adele Kubein moved to Oregon and started a gardening business. Then thirty-two years after dropping out of school in the seventh grade, she went back, passed her GED, enrolled in the local community college, then on to Oregon State University and a degree in political science. She’ll start graduate studies in anthropology this fall and continue the anti-war activism for which she’s best known in recent years. These days Danny works as a computer technician, fusses over her yet, albeit from afar, visits with club members when he has time and still rides like there is a great party at the end of every road. Adele has a twenty-six year old Honda Twinstar, a near-new BMW F650GSAL in the garage, and a geezer boyfriend downstairs with a stable of assorted Beemers.
Lars Lagergren, PhD, is Researcher and Senior lecturer in Leisure Studies at Malmoe University, Sweden. He has written several works on the motorcycle from a cultural perspective. Some examples of his writing are Svensk motorcykelkultur (The Swedish Motorcycle Culture) in which he treats various subcultures connected to the motorcycle and Saxtorps Grand Prix, which discusses the creation of an annual international motorcycle race during the 1930s. Lagergren has also written a number of articles concerning the motorcycle as an object of identity.
Charles Lamb is Senior Lecturer and Head of Marketing in the Commerce Division of Lincoln University, in Christchurch, New Zealand. He rebuilt his first motorcycle in 1969 (a 1941 Indian, which he still owns) and, while living in Invercargill, became quite close to Burt Munro. Recently, he founded PRISM (Promotion of Responsibility in Safe Motorcycling) in response to the renewed enthusiasm in NZ for motorcycling, and to help train both young and older people in riding for recreation and sport. At Lincoln University he has also established the AIMS (Australasian Institute for Motorcycle Studies) project, which is a developing research centre for all motorcycle related studies.
Matthew Linton is assistant professor of fine arts at the University of Houston-Clear Lake. He has been riding motorcycles for sixteen years and has been actively documenting the machines and the "biker" lifestyle for about a year and a half. He exhibits his works internationally as well as at selected venues around the country. He generally works with Polaroid film. More of his images can be found at www.artbiker.com.
Adrien Litton began his fascination with motorized two-wheeled conveyances at the age of six and they have not been far from his consciousness since. He has been riding motorcycles for the past thirty years, whenever an opportunity presents itself. He has contributed articles to Thunder Press and Hot Bike Magazine. Mr. Litton currently resides in Southern California where he makes his living as a geographer, devising methods for putting maps into Geographic Information Systems (GIS) databases.
Randy D. McBee is an associate professor of history at Texas Tech University where he teaches courses in U.S. immigration and urban history and recent U.S. history. He is currently working on a manuscript about the history of motorcyclists since 1947.
Darilynn (Dee) McClure is a Charter Life Member and has
served as a chapter secretary/treasurer, District Advisor and Vice Chairman for
the Texas Motorcycle Rights Association. She also served as secretary for the Gulf Coast Motorcycle Rights
Association. Dee is also an
Aid to Injured Motorcyclists Representative and Texas ABATE Confederation
member. Her history with the biker
community, club, independent, and with motorcycle rights organizations, extends
back through 30+ years. She has
had articles published in the Texas Iron and Texas Road Warrior magazines and
poetry published in The National Library
of Poetry. Dee has studied and
read many Native writers and teachers, as this is another of her life
passions/interests. She currently
resides in San Marcos, Texas with her dog, Cheyenne and cat, Bailey. She can be reached at dnative54@yahoo.com
Suzanne McDonald-Walker is a Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Northampton, England and Series Co-ordinator for the Economic and Social Research Council's Research Seminar Series, “Citizenship and its Futures.” She has published a book, Bikers: Culture, Politics and Power, and various articles on biker politics, history and culture. She has ridden motorcycles since her teens and owns a brace of Moto Guzzis.
Lisa MacKinney has a BA (Hons) and MA from La Trobe University, Melbourne, where her work focussed on The Book of Margery Kempe (c. 1436) and the role of devotional art in medieval religion and mysticism. She is completing a PhD (History) at the University of Western Australia, entitled “Dressed in Black”: The Shangri-Las and America. Lisa also worked in record shops for 17 years, and plays guitar and organ at extreme volumes in the rock group Second Viennese School, and solo as Mystic Eyes (see www.myspace.com/lisamackinney).
Ron Milam is a military historian at Texas Tech University in Lubbock Texas. He serves as the Interim Director of the Center for War and Diplomacy in the Post-Vietnam War Era, and teaches classes on the Vietnam War and the history of insurgency. He rides a 2007 “Patriot” Ultra Classic, a 2003 Heritage Softail Classic, and a 1997 Electra Glide Classic.
Paul Nagy teaches at Clovis Community College in Clovis, NM. He received his BA from the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, an MA from Iowa State, an MPA from Drake, and is currently completing a PhD from Northern Illinois University. Throughout his academic career, he has also owned and ridden twelve different motorcycles, and currently rides a '99 Honda VFR800.
Jeremy Packer began riding the week he moved to Urbana/Champaign to begin his graduate work at the University of Illinois. Little did he know at the time, the two activities would become intimately entwined. He has since escaped the flatlands of the “I” states for North Carolina where the Blue Ridge Parkway always beckons and he is an Associate Professor of Communication at North Carolina State University. He is the author of Mobility Without Mayhem: Mass Mediating Safety and Automobility (Duke, forthcoming 2008) and the co-editor of Foucault Cultural Studies and Governmentality (SUNY 2003) and Thinking with James Carey: Essays on Communications, Transportation, History (Peter Lang, 2006). His research explores the relationships between mobility, safety, communications, and national security and can be found in communications and cultural studies journals.
Allison Perlman is completing her doctoral work in American Studies at the University of Texas. Beginning in the fall of 2007, she will be teaching in Visual Studies at Penn State, Erie. Her current research investigates media reform activism in the United States.
Eric Primm received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is currently an instructor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Colorado. His areas of research include race and sport, class, class culture, and deviant subcultures. He has been riding for 12 years and currently rides an '85 Super Glide (but don't tell his mother).
Ivan Rabinowitz is a professor in the Department of English at the University of South Africa. He has published on literary theory and romanticism. His current research project focuses on the possibility of constructing an “applied literary studies” and an ethics of reading. Rabinowitz rides with the Pretoria chapter of the Ulysses motorcycle club. He keeps his 1969 Triumph Daytona in a state of perpetual near-readiness and rides a 1985 Honda Gold Wing GL1100.
Greg Semack was born (and still resides) in the Detroit area. At that time, he was disappointed to discover that there were no motorcycles in his family. Fifteen years later he remedied that situation and has been riding ever since. One Suzuki, three Hondas, a BMW, a Buell, and seven Harleys later, Mr. Semack now regularly attends national motorcycle rallies, is a member of The Motor City Harley Owners Group, and has at one time or another visited both coasts on motorcycle trips. His garage is home to a 2003 Screaming Eagle Road King, a 2003 Heritage Softail, and a 2001 Heritage Springer. He answers the question “Occupation?” with “motel owner.” This allows him the excuse of going on bike trips to stay in touch with the motel industry.
Susan Semack is a Vice President for an international marketing research company and specializes in consumer and business-to-business research for the automotive and health care industries. She has been riding since 2001, but still hasn’t figured out how to work less and ride more. She presently rides a 2003 Harley Davidson Heritage Softail Classic.
Kris “TigerLady” Slawinski is a medical education specialist at University of Chicago, writes for motorcycle magazines, and co-founded, hosted and produced Open Road Radio, a motorcycle talk radio show. She served as a curatorial advisor to the AMA’s traveling Women & Motorcycles exhibit, and to Chicago’s Field Museum for The Art of the Motorcycle design exhibition. TigerLady has been riding for 30 years, founded the Mean Bikee Chix, is a member of the Vincent Owners Club Chicago Section, and currently owns a 2004 BMW R1150, a 1998 Honda NT650 Hawk GT, and a basket case Vincent Firefly.
Katherine Sutherland is Associate Dean of Arts at Thompson Rivers University in British Columbia, Canada. She specializes in postcolonial studies and cultural studies, with a specific focus on hockey, soccer and motorcycling.
Dr. Amy Ruth Tobol is an Associate Professor of Social Theory, Structure, and Change at SUNY Empire State College. In addition to teaching sociology, legal studies, and criminal justice courses, Dr. Tobol is obsessed with fiber arts and motorcycles. Her Honda Rebel 250 is currently recuperating in a garage, while Dr. Tobol recuperates from a variety of motorcycle and non motorcycle mishaps.
Simon Vaukins grew up on the Isle of Man and therefore grew up with the TT. A PhD candidate in history at Lancaster University, he is writing a thesis which sets the TT into the wider context of the social and cultural history of the Isle of Man. He has presented papers on the subject at the British Society of Sports History (BSSH) annual conference (2005 and 2006), the Irish Society of Sports History (2006) and at "Histfest" the annual postgraduate conference at Lancaster Unverisity (2005 and 2007). A summary of his research was published in the BSSH bulletin (2005).
Errol Vieth is an associate professor in film and communication at Central Queensland University in Australia. He has written predominantly in the area of film but also in that of motorcycling. He owned a Triumph 500 and a Yamaha TX 650 in his younger days, before rediscovering motorcycling 18 years ago on a BMW R80. He now rides a Moto Guzzi California EV. He recently rode around the south island of New Zealand on a Harley Davidson Road King Classic. He is a founding member of the Capricornia Branch of the Ulysses Club.
Richard B. Verrone is Coordinator for Undergraduate Research in the Texas Tech University Honors College. Previously he was an Archivist and Head of the Oral History Project at the Vietnam Center and Archive at Texas Tech. He holds a doctorate in American, Asian, and modern European History from Texas Tech University. Dr. Verrone is a Fulbright Scholar, an Adjunct Professor of History in the TTU Department of History, an Instructor in the TTU Honors College, Instructor in the TTU Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, and is a past president of the Texas Tech University Staff Senate.
Julie Willett is an assocate professor at Texas Tech University where she teaches courses on gender, labor, and sexuality. She is currently completing a book manuscript on masculinity, women's work, and childcare.
Gary L. Winn is a Professor of Safety and Environmental Management at West Virginia University's College of Engineering and Mineral Resources, where he teaches construction safety and principles of safety management. His freshman engineers have used motorcycles to introduce theory of engineering design, including a design and test of aerodynamic improvements for a top Daytona race team and fast-fuel fillers for racing applications. He suggests that hands-on designs and competition among freshmen groups bring out the best in the young engineers. Winn's motorcycle experience began with motor scooters in the Georgia swamps and evolved into an appreciation of simplicity and elegance of design, exemplified by his current stable of Moto Guzzi twins including a pair of matched V-7 Sports. His interests also include John Deere two-cylinder tractors, stationary oil field engines and farming with draft horses.
Ed Youngblood has a B.A. from Oklahoma State (1965) and an M.A. from Ohio University (1968), and has worked in the motorcycle industry for thirty years. His positions included the presidency of the American Motorcyclist Association and the deputy presidency of the Federation Internationale de Motocyclisme. His published writings include several books (John Penton and the Off-Road Motorcycle Revolution, A Century of Indian, Mann of His Time) and many articles. He has served as a curator or curatorial consultant to the Motorcycle Hall of Fame Museum, the Guggenheim Museum, Ohio State University, and the Columbus College of Art and Design. He also manages MotoHistory, a comprehensive resource for news and information about motorcycle history: http://www.motohistory.net.