Labor jacket in light beige suede Pitti rarely introduces new, interesting brands these days. It may be partly the market situation, partly the Pitti situation, but either way it is not about the search for some time. You see new things but not new names. Luckily there was an exception this summer, because we met
AThe heart of this strange, perhaps rather poignant book is the biblical question: “What must I do to be saved?” Not in the crude sense of securing a place in heaven, but as an urgent challenge to the entire stock of destructive assumptions and habits espoused by the majority culture. Vance’s famous first book, Hillbilly
The allure of the 70s and 90s, where designs were simple and motorcycles were pure, is a desire that resonates more than a quarter of a century later. And plenty of motorcycles are wearing their old shape well. Round headlights, teardrop tank, twin rear shocks, brushed-metal muffler, the looks have been refined and successfully so.
JoshBryan/Shutterstock If you have a brand-new General Motors car with a stick shift, like the Cadillac CT4-V or CT5-V, you were probably sold on its “no-lift shift” feature at the dealer. Driving your way through the gears without taking your foot off the gas pedal – feels
Most riders and car enthusiasts know Brembo. Even people who don’t ride know Brembo. The Italian brand has spent decades turning brake calipers into status symbols. Look at the Brembo logo peeking through a wheel or on the fork of a premium bike and everyone immediately assumes it’s fast, expensive, or both. But here’s the
While the automotive world moves toward the complex, high-tech, and whisper-quiet forced induction, one stubborn relic of the mid-20th century refuses to die. The modern engine bay is dominated by twin-scroll turbochargers, variable valve timing and hybrid assistance, all designed to squeeze maximum power from small displacements. Yet, despite billions spent on modern engineering, a
No one on Earth loved vintage workwear more than Nigel Caborn. The famed British designer, who died last Thursday at the age of 77, was known for painstakingly replicating the rugged clothing worn by RAF pilots, polar explorers and others, which you can see in sepia-tinted photographs from the first half of the 20th century.