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Change is Good: Motorcycle Personalization, Modification, and Performance Upgrades

Posted on by David Russell
maico motorcycle customization
25
May

Vintage Motor Company is pleased to present a three-part series on why Maico riders modified their bikes–and why owners of motor vehicles are still motivated by the same desires The pick-up truck bounced into an open dirt patch on the Pennsylvania hillside. It came to rest abruptly; a drawn-out scratch of the emergency brake finalized […]

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motorcycle restoration

The Restorer’s Quest: Why we display old motorcycles and cars

Posted on by David Russell
01
Dec

Validation The key reason owners/restorers bring old motorcycles (or old cars) to events, to compete for awards, or seek to display them, is essentially validation. By this we mean that the restorer wants to have someone say, in effect, “You did a good job restoring that,” or “That’s a nice motorcycle.”

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