Muscle Bikes
March, 2002
What happening, where it's happening and who's making it happenThe curator of the Guggenheim Museum's Art of the Motorcycle exhibit has a theory about the evolution of American bikes (i.e., cruisers) and European bikes (cafe racers): The two breeds can be explained as the difference between the Western saddle and the so-called English saddle. Harleys and Indians were based on the wide-open-spaces mystique of the cowboy. Triumphs Ducatis, MVs and the like were almost equestrian, steered with the...
