cool photos from Listenyourwildside.tumblr.com which is focused on early motorcyles primarily

check it out, it doesn't have immense quantity of content, but it's a good look through race bikes and race cars http://listenyourwildside.tumblr.com/

You have less than a second to see the biker... Click on the image to see the full size first

Too late, next time slow down and be careful, it's the only way to see better... Ducati advertising found on http://autoadvert.tumblr.com/

OilandSteel.tumblr.com

I've wondered why more fuel tanks weren't designed with tank level indicators, in the above case, a sightglass. Probably a held over prejudice from my submarine days see more at http://oilandsteel.tumblr.com/

found on Voodoo Timm's Garage

So you think these are cool, go see the rest at http://voodootimm.tumblr.com

Lane Splitting: A Southern California Motorcycle Experience

found on http://www.pipeburn.com

another cool motorcycle riding the rails

Found on http://thenewcaferacersociety.blogspot.com/ but originally from http://gunter-spb.livejournal.com/1057966.html This is a great scratch built cycle rail car, but my favorite is still the Indian I posted http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/04/coolest-thing-well-see-all-week-indian.html

Everything old is new again

Above 1938 one of a kind made in France http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/11/27/belt-drive-replaces-wheels-on-novel-motorcycle/ Above: BMW So obvious, but it was a Forest Service contract that never got past R&D Above: The KTM Above: the Hyanide Above: the Baal

Round the world trekking Zundapp with sidecar, and damn cool looking for it's utilitarian adaptations for long range use

labeled Zündapp KS601 „Grüner Elefant“ sidecar - 1953 Check out the map painted onto the sideacar fender and the Gerry can, all the stickers gathered along the trip.. my complimentsFound on http://motorcycle-74.blogspot.com/ from http://de.academic.ru/dic.nsf/dewiki/1557083

ignore the rider, what do you think about this unique morphing of a motorwheel and a motorcycle

found on http://motorcycle-74.blogspot.com

Lean and mean: the Icare motorcycle concept will take the streets by storm

If its France-based designers are to be believed then the Icare motorcycle concept is supposed to be a cross between something from Tron and “a kind of Porsche or Aston Martin for the two-wheeled world.” I guess anyone who thought this was just another bike concept can really stuff it and marvel at the wonder that is this Enzyme Design exclusive.Inspired by light cycles from TRON and housing

Honda - Lord of the Rings

I wonder if Soichiro Honda knew what he was starting when as a schoolboy in the late thirties, he began his development of the piston ring. As his ideas came to fruition and production began, he tried to sell his rings to Toyota, but was told that his work didn't meet their rigorous standards. Undaunted, he carried on and two years later he finally earned a contract with the Japanese giant.The

2010 Ducati Monster 696 and 796

The new Monster 696 and 796 are available in an amzing 13 different colors comes in traditional Ducati red, new arctic white silk or diamond black silk with all three colours against a red Trellis frame and black wheels, which feature a new red flash around 60° of the rim side, creating a red stripe at speed. Monster Art extends the 3 standard colours to 13 with the new collection, ‘Logomania’.

2010 Ducati Monster 696 and 796

The new Monster 696 and 796 are available in an amzing 13 different colors comes in traditional Ducati red, new arctic white silk or diamond black silk with all three colours against a red Trellis frame and black wheels, which feature a new red flash around 60° of the rim side, creating a red stripe at speed. Monster Art extends the 3 standard colours to 13 with the new collection, ‘Logomania’.