Vancouverite Thierry Tanguy’s Moto Art brings something new to the motorcycle enthusiast, shots of beautiful precision that take the mechanical design elements of both present day and historic motorcycles and elevates them into the realm of  art.  To our eye anyway.  That being said we’ll let Thierry and his art speak for themselves.

It’s sublime. Even standing still it has the look of mercury in motion. At its heart a Ducati engine, the 1000 DS to be precise, the same engine that motivates the Multi-Strada, and that is where the resemblance pretty much ends. Because where the Multi-Strata is meant for “many roads”, this bike, the NCR Millona,…

I’m getting to live a dream, and at the moment it doesn’t matter.  Why?  Because when I last looked I was going 270kph down the front straightaway of Portland International Raceway.  And I, being a bit daft, didn’t keep an eye on the braking markers the last three times through – I got caught up…

Dance and house music pump out across the vendor area, and in that alone you know this is a different type of motorcycle gathering.  Then, it starts, what was house is given a new beat, and then drown out completely by the “pompone”.  The thunderous cadence of L-Twins firing up on the “starting grid”.  This…

It wasn’t a big booth, but it contained a testament to what giving up 3 years of your life to a passion and vision can do. It’s Dan Fischer’s dream: the Fischer MRX 650, “the first American Superbike” – consensus around the booth was that the Buell didn’t qualify; we didn’t go there. The bike…

In 1972 Paul Smart met his new mount the Ducati 750 that he would race at the Imola 200.  Courtesy of Ducati, this is his recollection of that first meeting and the race that followed.