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AD rounds up the bikes that represent the pinnacle of power and style

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Anke Eve Golman was a journalist for Cycle World, Das Motorrad in Germany, & Moto Revue in France. She was a friend of author André Pieyre de Mandiargues and the inspiration for the main character, 'Rebecca', in his book The Motorcycle (1963). The book was adapted for the 1968 film The Girl on a Motorcycle starring Marianne Faithful. She was the first woman to ride a motorcycle with a one-piece leather racing suit. In 1958, she helped found the Women's Int'l Motorcycle Assoc. in Europe.

Riding Vintage is about American motorcycles built before 1965. It contains articles on vintage racing, tech, history, and vintage photography.

Few things have captured the passion, the sometimes obsession, of men like the motorcycle. There's no mystery as to why this is.

AD rounds up the bikes that represent the pinnacle of power and style

Stars such as Tom Cruise, Jay Leno and Josh Hutcherson love their bikes, while FX's "Sons of Anarchy" is getting credit for boosting U.S. sales that were hit hard by the recession.

Riding Vintage article on "Portraits of American Bikers: Life in the 1960s", a collection of photographs taken by Jim Miteff of the Outlaws Motorcycle Club in the late 1960's.

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Clint Eastwood was well known for his love of cars and motorcycles in the '60s and '70s, he especially loved British marques like Jaguar, Austim Healy and motorcycle marque Norton.