Bikes in The City: Stirling Eco: a new gold standard in urban electric?
Legislation is going to change everything about the nature and aesthetic of urban transport. Stirling Eco have one solution. On October 25, 2021 the London Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) is expanding out to the North and South Circular Roads. This — and other recently announced emissions legislation, amounts to an atomic explosion in urban […]
Blood Harmony: Adam Brinkworth Q&A
Adam Brinkworth is one of London’s most well regarded three-dimensional designers. He is also a devotee of interesting cars and motorcycles. But those two statements don’t really do justice to the multi-layered character that is Brink 66. The London-based figurehead of Brinkworth Design has a uniquely visceral relationship with machinery – one threaded through with […]
The Village Land Rover
Land Rovers are more than utility vehicles. Series 1 classics are interwoven with the communities they have served. They are work horses, but cherished with genuine emotion. Barry Clark dragged this 1955 Series 1 out of a field near his house 15 years ago. “It had a tree growing up through the middle of it,” […]
Fistful: Cosworth rarities
It’s sixty two years now since Mike Costin and Keith Duckworth launched Cosworth Engineering in a greasy corner of London. Since then the engineering firm has provided the connective tissue of some of the world’s finest and most winning sports cars the world has ever known – and has collaborated with a wealth of mainstream […]
My Cosworth story: ‘It’s not everyone’s idea of a supercar – but for me it’s a super car’
Turbo lag. It’s not seen as something to aspire to. Look around you. McMindfulness meatheads smash their screens between Zoom calls and online pilates sessions. Anti-vax perps with cabin fever, who get their news from Call of Duty twitch feeds, cop i3s and hunting bows with their bounce back loans. The projected 2030 ban on […]
The Resistance: English Electric and the alt.bike underground
English Electric is Britain’s go-to retail and service centre for the emerging culture of electric motorcycles. With a background in the custom bike scene having founded Old Empire motorcycles in 2011, founder Alec Sharp made a bold move in 2017 when he decided to plant his flag in the Electric earth – augmenting and subverting […]
#Vanlife. Heroes and Villains
The appeal of Van Life is now something everyone understands. Freedom. Adventure. Self-determination. All these things are encoded deeply into how we see ourselves – and an entire industry has arisen to cater for every kind of wagon-type desire. But in the last few weeks and months of Lockdown, devotees of the #vanlife ethos have been up against it. We explore how and why we got here.
Ariel plays its Ace
Based in the rolling hills of Somerset, the Ariel Motor Company is the sort of family-run business that we all wish we worked for. Small and friendly yet internationally-known, the modern iteration of the firm has been built up since 1999 by current managing director Simon Saunders, along with his sons Tom and Henry. But […]
Invalid Trikes
If you’re of a certain age, you’ll remember the sight and sound of the powder blue invalid tricycles that were once a common sight on our roads and at our football stadia. But do you know the story behind them? No? Well, in that case, read on… Invalid trikes have been around for a very […]
Remembering Jim Clark
Take the speed of Senna, the wet weather prowess of Schumacher, the smoothness and mechanical sympathy of Prost, the versatility and enthusiasm of Andretti and the humility of a country boy and you’ve got the recipe for the greatest racing driver of the 1960s; indeed, perhaps the greatest racing driver ever. That driver was Jim […]