The high-gloss, good-lookin’ BikeEXIF calendar has arrived at Good Spark Garage. Get yerself one today and let it linger on the month of January (ahem), where you’ll find Casey’s BMW R75/6 Cafe Racer in all its trimmed-down glory.
Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at a mural for the Wilkinson Bros design studio (video below), featuring an illustrative depiction of a 1913 Indian board track racer. The goal was to create a warehouse vibe with the horizontal slats (and to avoid painting on the existing tongue-n-groove paneling).
Soaking in a torrential downpour, we rode the Ural sidecar and BMW cafe racer toward a vintage motorcycle event about 45 minutes north. We were thinking the attendance may suffer due to the blackening sky and big fat drops of rain pooling in the low spots. But, we were committed to the ride, had donned the mostly-effective rain gear and set off…not knowing the event had been cancelled.
As a prelude to the big Rockers Reunion Indy event, Ton Up Indianapolis hosted a gallery event to unveil the trophies that would be awarded at the June 1st bike show. We headed downtown, toward Fountain Square, to check out the motorcycle-related art, photography and handcrafted trophies. The weather was perfect, a nice Spring primer to the warm-weather motorcycling ahead.
After designing the graphics, we dusted off the vinyl plotter and stickered up the shop bike, a Ural Red October sidecar motorcycle. The intention was to echo the good ol’ days of hand-lettered service trucks and bold branding.
We appreciate layers of synthetic stuff that lessen the impact between skulls and things that are harder than skulls. At ICON Motosports, there’s some impressive tech goin’ on within the structure of their helmets, but they value a killer facade, too. So do we. Read how we helped design an aggressive skin for their beautifully-sculpted Airmada shell. Meet the recently launched Medicine Man…
