Real Biker Babes

"Men like bikes, men like women. And of course men like sexy women on bikes. 

But what is sexier than a woman who owns a 1965 BSA Lightning and actually rides the damn thing? 

Nothing."

Reused from: Return of the Cafe Racer 

Vintage Biker Babe

All Photograph by Mandy Lane Photography

headgear

I have a classic style vintage 70's helmet, its black with a  gold stripe. I love it. This summer I want to get on my own motorbike and ride all the streets till my eyes are burning and the wind cuts my face up!! yummiie!!! So as a Christmas present from my amazing Brother was a new DOT approved helmet! He is protective!

Based on the company’s original 1954 "500" helmet, this new Bell Custom 500 adds modern protection and graphics to the classic shape. The shell is fiberglass, creating an average weight of 880g and the helmets are DOT certified. We’re impressed with the level of detail — check out the chrome trim and quilted liner and it fits my head like a dream.

  

Merry Christmas to meeee!!!!!

mooneeeeee

moooneee moneeyyyy moneeeyyy .. arg. still loving the mooneyes show in japan.
Check out all the images at sparetime.jp or the other moto blogs all posting their pics. Amazing! will post my favs soon.

Vintage Wartime

Who knew there was a war going on in vintage picking warehouses. Living in Toronto for a bit I noticed the very high quality and abundance in vintage clothing, some purchases from boutiques there I will hold on to forever and are incredible that I  picked up for cheap ($10 for a knee length blue wool 1960's bubble coat- very Balenciaga) Amazing! These warehouses are here too, although i have heard of them and know friends who have been, and how close they guard the secrete location. I had no idea that Japanese and European markets had such huge buying power. I am jealous!

Read about the Vintage Clothing Wars in Toronto - here










Now I am on the hunt for a VINTAGE black jacket for riding my bike.

Klaxon Howl (Toronto, ont.) carries Vintage stock mens Leathers from the Uk.


Himmel Brothers AVRO 1939 (more aviation style than motorcycle)

 And of course my lovely Langliz Leathers.

Anti Social Christmas

Thanksgiving

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Langlitz Leathers - Portland Oregon Since 1947

I can just smell the custom leather on this catalog.... now I will be dreaming of a full customer leather outfit... ohh yaa...vroom vroom.

I can do it!

reading

I just started reading it. Well that's a lie, I started a few months ago and then gave the book back to its owner before I could finish. I could not leave it unfinished, so I am re-reading it. 

Lillian La France, I get it.

It's an older Selvage Yard post, but I keep going back to her as inspiration. I wish I could hang out with her, she sounds like fun! 

Lillian La France showing off with no hands on the treadmill at full rev.  She was one of the first, and also one of the most popular, female Wall of Death riders of the 1920s & ’30s.

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“I was never meant to have children, or to be a plain housewife.  I saw how my mother lived, so you know married life never appealed to me– to endure what she went through…”

–Lillian LaFrance