Home after defying the bad weather and riding anyway in rather wintery conditions. I photographed this image on my mobile phone camera and Photoshopped it to look less like a mobile phone photo. I kinda dig the two tone effect in this shot of my beautiful Bonneville in the rain. The cool light flare was a natural occurrence of the lens.
Great video featuring photographer Scoot Pommier discussing his passion for photography, motorcycles and the perfection of the Moto Guzzi engine.
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Life magazine photographer Bill Ray and writer Joe Bride spent a few weeks in 1965 to document the life of the Hell’s Angels. Catapulting down endless highways on Harley Davidsons, braving police confrontations, their images and words gave insight into a secretive and often dangerous society built around lawlessness and bucking the status quo. Nearly all of these images were never published until now. Check out the images and stories at the Life Magazine site.
A rather cinematic photograph from Alex Wein. Via bettertoreigninhell
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I’m not normally a huge fan of the now cliched instagram and hipstermatic images from iPhones but I did recently have some fun re-editing some of my older bike photos on the app pixlromatic. Hope you can forgive my self indulgence as I thought these retro effects were particularly well suited to these classic bikes.
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The thing I miss about film photography is forgetting what was on that film and rediscovering the images when you finally have the photos developed. A few months ago I went on a ride with a coupe of guys I met in the city. I approached them because I admired their retro bikes and we ended up going for a ride a few weeks later. Of the two guys I rode with, one had the coolest name of Marlon Slacks, who rode a cafe’d Yamaha SR400 which he blogs about. The other was a quiet, thoughtful guy named Matt, who pottered on his largely unmodified SR500. These are a few photos from that trip that I unearthed. I had asked Marlon to take a few for me but unfortunately NONE of them were in focus. I suppose I should have specified more strongly that my old camera required manual focusing. He did let me ride his bike though, so I’m not too upset.
Matt writes beautifully on his own motorcycling blog called Contemplative Motorcycling. Well worth checking out as a reminder of why we ride.
A quick behind the scenes video from James Douglas.
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The annual Phillip Island Classic bike race was on over the weekend and I finally got around to paying it a visit. It was fantastic being able to walk amongst the pit crews and bikes. Seeing the age of some of the racers, the often delicate condition of the bikes gave me a new respect for the racing as the riders touched their knees down around the corners of this famous track. There were many characters to be seen and obviously some beautiful bikes. Have a look through the slideshow below this photograph for more of the day’s action.
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