Just uploaded: a cornucopia of stories and pictures from 1912, including interviews with three top riders who reveal their most exciting rides and some roadtests.

Today’s additions: A moving poem about knights in armour and a dragon-powered motorcycle (in the poetry section, where else?); with more yarns and pictures from 1912.

ALL A BIT random but among new material in 1903 you’ll find a report on the Glasgow-London trial with some cool pics of the four survivors; 1912 is the year I’m working on at present so more stories and pics are being uploaded daily (including an 814cc single-cylinder lady-back tandem from Connecticut).

THREE MORE features have been uploaded to the 1903 page. All aboard! How to mount a motor cycle tells you how to start a bike without a kickstart, let alone a starter motor. Motor Cycle Touring offers some handy tips on how to do it from an experienced enthusiast.  A run on a Peerless is an early example of a roadtest. Also added today, more pics for the 1903 feature Wake Up Ladies! Including snaps of a Norton lady’s model and scary Mary Kennard. All the 1903 features are now ‘live’.

ONE DAY IN 1903 George Wyman mounted his 1¼hp California in San Francisco and headed east. Fifty days later he arrived in New York. Read all about it in the 1903 features section.

Two more features from 1903; useful tips on preparing your motor bicycle for an outing, and volunteer riders helping out with military manoeuvres.

Rem and Charlie won the first TT, of course but there was much more to it than that, as you’ll find out by turning to the 1907 features list.

Four features have been added today: two from 1903; two from 1910.

1903 The Position of the Motor Cycle: The first ever review of the motor cycle and it’s likely future..
1903 A novel sidecarriage attachment: Mills & Fulford made a sidecar that steered with the bike.
1910 From Frisco to the Big Apple: Was it a tough ride? Judging by this rider’s report it was brutal.
1910 Touring–1900 vs 1910: A pundit looked back to show just how fast the pastime had been evolving.

Added today to the 1903 features, a cri de coeur against four-cylindered ‘monster’ motor cycles with a description of French monsters at Canning Town and the outcome of a race at the London circuit,

For your delectation, today’s additions are:
A word for the Tricycle, an insight into the world of three-wheeling.
Confessions of an Edwardian Jack-the-Lad, Pioneer riders knew how to misbehav.
The Demon Scorcher, speed freaks have always been with us.
Building a Motor Cycle, in which our hero creates his dream bike in the kitchen.
Don’t Hesitate, get on your bike–advice on sorting the wheat from the chaff.
Wake up ladies! A clarion call to the fair sex to join the fun, and some memorable correspondence concerning the advisability of allowing plucky gels to ride motor cycles.
From Scotland to Scandinavia, Having dragged his missus from Essex to Scotland, a determined enthusiast sent her home and took his bike over the North Sea.
Lords of the Highway, A rather wonderful critique of the lesser spotted pedestrian.