McQueen’s Motorcycles: Racing and Riding with the King of Cool

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The long-departed Steve McQueen is still the coolest man on two wheels. Get an intimate have a look at his coolest bikes right here, at this time, in McQueen’s Motorcycles.

Even thirty years after his death, Steve McQueen remains a cultural icon. His image continues to appear in advertising and pop culture and his fan base spans from car lovers to racing enthusiasts to motorcycle obsessives.

In his movies, McQueen’s character all the time had an envy-inducing motorcycle or car, but in his personal life, motorcycles were all the time McQueen’s first true love. McQueen’s Motorcycles makes a speciality of the bikes that the King of Cool raced and collected.

From the first Harley McQueen bought when he was once an acting student in New York to the Triumph “desert sleds” and Huskys he desert raced all over the place California, Mexico, and Nevada, McQueen was once never without a stable of two wheelers.

His need for speed propelled him from Hollywood into a number of top off-road motorcycle races, including the Baja 1000, Mint 400, Elsinore Grand Prix, and while a member of the 1964 ISDT team in Europe. Decided to be ahead of the pack, McQueen maintained his body find it irresistible was once a machine itself. He trained vigorously, weight lifting, running, and studying martial arts.

Later in his life, as he backed away from Hollywood, his interests turned to antique bikes and he accumulated an extensive collection, including Harley-Davidson, Indian, Triumph, Brough Superior, Cyclone, BSA, and Ace motorcycles.

Today, McQueen still has the Midas touch; anything that was once in the man’s possession is a hot commodity. McQueen’s classic motorcycles sell for top dollar at auctions, all the time at a a couple of of what the same bike is worth without the McQueen pedigree. McQueen’s Motorcycles reveals these highly sought-after machines in gorgeous photography and full historical context.


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