If your painter loves what they do enough to continue polishing to high shine until the minute you leave with your parts, they’re a keeper.

Motor-cycling is not a strenuous pastime even for the delicate girl, who is not overburdened with strength and stamina.

Beauty alone is nothing without substance and intelligence and motivation to create.

The real learning didn’t start until she decided to take on the build.

Pleasure, danger, corruption of innocence, ‘modernism’, violence, and changes in the notion of space and time are all here.

You’d be forgiven for thinking people spend money on their cars to drive them; some do it to watch them burn.

Fast and dirty.

Cutting it fine and building confidence; ocean on one side, cliffs on the other, and nothing but time to think.

Just because you can disassemble a carburettor lightening fast doesn’t mean you can’t also get your needlecraft on…

Adventure was always going to be on the cards.

R(e)ally and truly.

Any excuse for a quick braap and a chin-wag.

Being what is likely the cheapest safety conscious moto gear you can get your hands on, I’ve amassed a few pairs, but these are the ones I tend to reach for time and again.

Super Hooligan.

Conversation/motivation starters.

The poetry of home as a concept: a budding love story.

…and passionate escape artists, and occasional hooligans...

A one-of-a-kind, handmade custom.

Our round up on The Machine Show 2018.

Everybody loves a good list.

According to the Labor Dept, if you've sewed on buttons, or made buttonholes on a machine, you can learn to do spot welding on airplane parts.

Propaganda is all around us. It's not specific to a period of time, a country or a regime … it's everywhere.

With age comes responsibility, apparently. Thirty feels the same as when I was in high school but with more bills to pay and the ability to drive myself places. Is growing up the freedom to decide on breakfast-cake? Or the sophistication to choose the more sensible option?

Recently married woman in a skin tight fleece lined leather bodysuit rides to Germany to see her lover.