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History of Pin-up Magazines

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History of Pin-up Magazines . ( Pin-up, Pin-up girls )This compact , three-volume book set chronicles the rise of pin-up girly magazines from 1900-1969 covering their tame beginnings in France through their post-WWII heyday to the launch of Playboy and fetish mags in the 60s. There are even some words to read in these books if you want to do that. Werd.com

History Of Mercedes-Benz SL

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The Legendary Mercedes-Benz SL Sports Car: A History
2012 marks the 60th anniversary of Mercedes-Benz’s legendary SL sports car, and the company invited us out to the famous Warner Bros. lot to celebrate six decades of this distinguished icon. Wanting to highlight the marque’s close association with Hollywood, Mercedes-Benz filled a genuine sound stage with a retrospective showcasing each generation of SL.Each Mercedes-Benz SL on display was lovingly restored to showroom-new condition by the company’s own Mercedes-Benz Classic Center, based in Irvine, California. Well, all except for one: Mercedes also brought out its new 2013 SL, which will make its official public reveal during the Academy Awards. We weren’t allowed to drive any of these vehicles (yet), but just getting up close and personal with these automotive icons was a treat in and of itself.

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In typical Mercedes-Benz fashion, the 2013 Mercedes-Benz SL features a significant number of innovations and improvements over the old model -- or any sports roadster, for that matter. Some of the new features include an undertray-mounted sensor that automatically opens the trunk with a wave of a foot; heat-reflective leather, to keep the interior cool during the summer; and wiper blade-mounted water nozzles, to more effectively clean the windscreen.Performance-wise, the new 2013 Mercedes-Benz SL features an 89% aluminum body shell, which helps make the new model 140 kilograms lighter than the old version. V6 power comes standard, but we’re taken with the new, more powerful and more efficient V8.

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The History of Cafe Racers

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Grease n Gasoline Cafe Racer Special - cafe racer , building a cafe racer , yamaha cafe racer , honda cafe racer , cafe racer for sale , cafe racer jacket , triumph cafe racer , cafe racer kit , cafe racer partsIt is perhaps the most influential motorcycle movement the world has ever seen. Born in the streets of England in the 1950s, its culture still thrives around the globe. There will never be another motorcycle—or rider—quite like it. And yet, most of us have never heard of the cafe racer.

The cafe racer is both man and machine. With its Spartan appearance and aggressive styling, the cafe racer is one of the most distinctive and revered motorcycles in the world. Their impact on the motorcycle industry includes legendary high-performance motorcycles like Triumph’s Bonneville, Honda’s CB-750, and Kawasaki’s Z-1. Without the original café racers tuning and designing their ordinary street bikes for power and handling, manufacturers may never have designed the modern sportbike.
The café racer movement may have been born in London in the 1950s, but it has developed into a subculture encompassing a desire for speed, a love of rock and roll, and ultimately an enduring love for a motorcycle that’s being revived worldwide.
The human side of the cafe racer was a perfect match for this type of motorcycle. The riders of these machines were young, and they wanted to go fast. The goal of many of the cafe racers during the 50s was the ability to hit a hundred miles an hour, better known as “the ton.” Author and journalist Mike Seate has been following the cafe racer for two decades.

“The term cafe racer came from what’s actually a derisive term used to describe kids who hung out in cafés and raced fast. They would hang out in transport cafés and wait until somebody else came by on a fast bike and challenged them for a race, and they all rushed outside to see who gets up the road the fastest. When they get back to the cafés, which were often occupied by long distance truck drivers, the truck drivers would laugh and say, ‘You’re not a real racer, you’re not Barry Sheen, you’re just a cafe racer! And the kids thought, ‘Well you’re damn right I’m a cafe racer!’ So they would race to the next café, and then to the next one as fast as they could, and the name stuck; they embraced it despite the fact that it was a derisive term,” he said.
One of the birthplaces of the cafe racer was London’s Ace Café. The Ace was one of many cafés that provided a gathering place for teenagers and their motorcycles in the 1950s and 60s. Many, like the Busy Bee and Cafe Rising Sun have succumbed to the wrecking ball, while others, such as Jack’s Hill and Squires Coffee Bar have survived, hosting annual Ton-Up reunions each year. Avid motorcyclist Mark Wilsmore, who reopened the Ace Cafe to its former glory in 1994, says that rock and roll helped spark the subculture known as “ The Cafe Racing.”

“These kids over here, they have been the generation—rock and roll generation—they went out and bought the fastest vehicle they could afford, which over here was a motorbike. In the States, that was a car, and you had your hot rod culture come directly out of Elvis Presley and that lot, but over here, we had a similar sort of thing, but all based around motorbikes because of our different income levels. And the other great attraction of cafés, and I suspect diners in the states at that time, was the jukebox. And certainly in this country, when rock and roll first came around in the mid-50s you could only hear rock and roll on the jukebox. There was no radio stations playing it, no clubs playing it, so this new music of youngsters mixed with having their own vehicles and their own identity, um, along comes this Ton-Up boy and his bike, the cafe racer, it was invariably—the racing would be from one cafe to another,” he said.
The hunger to make their ordinary streetbikes go faster and resemble the machines ridden by British racing heroes like Mike Hailwood and Geoff Duke was all part of the cafe racer’s character. Doing the “Ton,” or hitting a hundred miles-an-hour, became a badge of honor—weather you made it back…or not.
Riders from those days say attempts at reaching the “Ton” on your average 650cc parallel twin were dodgy affairs at best. Riders could consider themselves very, very lucky to reach it as their engines had to be tuned well, but even the best engines could out-perform the skinny, bias-ply tires and meager drum brakes of mid-century design.
Road surfaces were not what they are today, with everything from poor road lighting to axle grease from cars and trucks making each corner a potential deathtrap. Trial and plenty of error was the order of the day and the Rockers, experimenting with countless performance modifications, came to create motorcycles that are still respected by go-fast aficionados. Brave? Crazy? Brilliant visionaries? Addicted to kicks? The Rockers were, and are, all of the above, which is why the Cafe Racer culture still lives not only in the streets on London, but across the globe. Enthusiasts of all ages are once again building custom high-performance motorcycles out of their garages, machines that continue the tradition of the cafe racer. ARTICLEE BY “Cafe Racer TV” “Do The Ton.”

The History of Harley-Davidson

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The History of Harley-Davidson : Over 100 Years of Motorcycle Greatness ARTICLE BY MOTORCYCLE INSURANCE
If you’re a motorcyclist, you know that the name “Harley Davidson” simply can’t be touched by other names in the business. Harley Davison started out as a pipe dream nearly 110 years ago now, and it’s spent the past century becoming perhaps the most prestigious motorcycle company across the entire globe. Over the course of the past century,

Harley Davidson has produced some of the most beloved motorcycles in history. This house name continues to faithfully roll out new, beautiful bikes, all under the same dedication to craft and quality that the original Harley and Davidson stood by. From huge bikes to smaller one, everyone has their own personal Harley preference—and whatever model you love most, you know you’re riding a roaring piece of high quality machinery. You love your Harley, but you may not know the history behind the business. From humble beginnings—Harley’s design of an engine to fit on a bicycle— to big earnings, Harley Davidson has left a rich legacy in the US and all over the world. The following timeline chronicles just a few of the great moments in time for the big business of Harley Davidson.