Monthly Archives: January 2016

classic motorcycle t-shirts, European motorcycle t-shirts, motorcycle art, Motorcycle as art, Motorcycle Culture, vintage motorcycle t-shirts

The T-shirt and its role in Motorcycle Culture

Posted on by David Russell
1920 Excelsior 20R t shirt
27
Jan

The Beginning of a Phenomenon The T-shirt with printed image—a phenomenon dating largely to the 1950s, exploding in popularity in the 1960s, and with its ancestral roots in post-World War I returning servicemen—is an ideal medium for proclaiming classic motorcycles. Interestingly, Marlon Brando, the actor whose portrayal of a motorcyclist in 1954’s The Wild One […]

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motorcycle art, Motorcycle as art

The Motorcycle as Art

Posted on by David Russell
the motorcycle as art
20
Jan

Recently, while returning home from a business trip, I decided to take the long way home and visit my favorite art museum.  On special exhibit at the museum were tow collections of drawings and paintings—the first was an expansive collection of Andrew Wyeth watercolors, while the second consisted of a compilation of landscape paintings by […]

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Motorcycle Culture, motorcycle oral history

Definitions, and the Maico as Material Culture 1.1

Posted on by David Russell
1981 Maico 490 t shirt
02
Jan

A Social History of Motorcycle Technology This post and many to follow is a social history of a technology.  By this I mean that it examines an item of technology—in this case the German-made Maico motorcycle—and explores the links between the object and that segment of humankind who interacted with it.

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