About

About me: I’m just a guy who likes old technology.  Old motorbikes and cars had very inventive ways to move people down the road, and some vehicles did it better than others.  New bikes are interesting too, but for me, the exciting stuff was done 100 years ago.  The list of old tech is a long list, but it includes things like disc brakes, telescoping forks and monoshock rear suspensions, electric starters, clutches, gearboxes, water cooled two strokes, steam power, electric vehicles, even hybrids.  They were all in existence 100 years ago.

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