Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label history. Show all posts

Saturday, May 29, 2010

911 sidecar

French police motorcycle with an ambulance sidecar attached. Circa 1900. Via: Strange Military
911 sidecar Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Anzani

Anzani was an engine manufacturer founded by the Italian Alessandro Anzani (1877-1956), which produced proprietary engines for aircraft...
Anzani Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

Sunday, May 2, 2010

Winifred Wells

Winifred Wells, 5 feet 5 , 22 years old, crossed Australia and back starting on Boxing Day 1950 and got back in January '51 on her Roya...
Winifred Wells Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Long time ago in Wichita

Long time ago in Wichita Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

B-17 in Action

“This remarkable photograph, taken during the Boeing B-17 attack on the Ploieşti oil refineries in Rumania on 15 July 1944, shows bombs ...
B-17 in Action Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

Iceland 1942

Iceland 1942 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

Sunday, March 28, 2010

Decapitator Eliminator

"Demonstrating a improvised device to stop decapitation from piano wire stretched across the road." But I am sure that you get w...
Decapitator Eliminator Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Wound Badge

I thought it would be cool to have those put on sides of German made motorcycles' tank if it has been laid down or wrecked. Then tho...
Wound Badge Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

Sunday, March 21, 2010

Amelia Earhart

The life of Amelia Earhart was portraited by a few actress, the most recent one by Hilary Swank in Amelia . Diane Keaton played her on...
Amelia Earhart Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

The 4 Horsemen

Via WW2 Talk
The 4 Horsemen Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

Monday, February 22, 2010

Rides that goes Booom

There were single person operated torpedoes called Kaiten (回天 , translated "the turn toward heaven") at the end of WWII. "E...
Rides that goes Booom Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

Saturday, February 20, 2010

Black Riders

I honor of Black history month...(Are there any Latino history, or Asian history month? ) There is a pretty good book called "Soul on ...
Black Riders Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

Tuskegee Fly Riders

This picture illustrates the beginning of the African-American motorcycle culture, started through the military during world war II. These ...
Tuskegee Fly Riders Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

Monday, February 15, 2010

Around D-Day

A load of scrap iron being delivered to a foundry in the Ruhr LMAO "Mom, it wasn't bad enough that they dropped me into Occupied Fr...
Around D-Day Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

Saturday, February 6, 2010

Military Bikes

I have a soft spot on military motorcycles. Mainly because they seems to be suicidal to me. The rider don't get much protection from any...
Military Bikes Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

Friday, February 5, 2010

Toareg Woman

"Toareg woman finds the joys of riding a German Triumph... she'll never go back to her camel!" via The Vintagent
Toareg Woman Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Russ Collins

Russ Collins was one of the leading motorcycle drag racers and drag bike builders of the 1960s and ‘70s. Born in New Jersey 1939, he was int...
Russ Collins Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

first one in D.C.

September,1937. Mrs. Sally Halterman is the first woman in Washington D.C. to obtain a motorcycle operators license.
first one in D.C. Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

Happy Birthday Ryan

Now you are the same age as these people. Well, there is a theory about the death of Jesse James, but hell. Happy Birthday, Buddy.
Happy Birthday Ryan Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

Thursday, January 28, 2010

After the Rain

Russia. Military police in guerrilla territory. July 1941 Via Wikipedia
After the Rain Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown