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Prtactising the Lewis Machine Gun which is to be sent to the front. The killing range of this gun is 2 miles, and it fires 600 to 800 shots per minute. Photo shows Captain Elise Reigner, manning the g...

Betty & Nancy Debenham twin sisters on their BSA Motorcycle which they promoted with their dog, Poncho. In 1928 they published Motorcycling for Women describing a motorcycle as the "magic carpet of t...

This must be the SUV of the motorcycle world. A twin engine, 8 seat, trike!?! I doubt there taking any twisties on this bad boy....

AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame Linda Dugeau was a pioneering motorcyclist who founded the Motor Maids, the oldest motorcycling organization for women in North America, in 1940....

There have been a number of great achievements by bikers and the marvelous machines they rode. Whether it’s a matter of great distances travelled, speeds never before reached or jumping 15 cars, there...

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During WW I, the importance of receiving mail could not be over stated. For American fighting forces, receiving mail was vital for morale. Some considered the delivery of mail to our fighting forces w...

Lady Florence Norman used her Autoped to scoot to her offices where she worked as an administrator in central London....

Field games have been around for hundreds of years, probably dating back to the domestication of the horse. Just like riders of today, ancient equestrians competed to see who was the most skillful am...

Tom Reiser's XR 750 Hillclimber - this radical custom Hillclimb machine was hand-built by the one and only Tom Reiser using a Harley-Davidson XR 750 engine built to run on nitromethane. Reiser remains...

In 1929, Vivian Bales rode her 1929 HarleyDavidson for 78 days and 5,000 miles across the country. She told the papers her motorcycle was a “key to the whole United States. Vivian Bales was the first...

1914 Harley Davidson A Motor Factory Boardtrack Racer. In 1914 HD entered the racing game and never looked back. This A motor racer is one of few first year Harley Davidson racers in existence....

In April 1937, Fred Ham, a California Highway Patrolman, set a new world record endurance run aboard a 1936 Harley-Davidson 61 cubic inch OHV EL Knucklehead. The run was made on Muroc Dry Lake at Edwa...

A frail old lady wanted to join a biker club. She knocked on the door of a local biker club, and a big, hairy, bearded biker with tattoos all over his arms answered the door. She proclaimed proudly, “...

FDNY firefighter Tim Duffy was off work the day of September 11, 2001, but when he realized what was going on, he donned his firefighter gear and rode his 2000 Super Glide Sport into lower Manhattan t...