The American Motorcycle - Petersen Museum, LA
Now open at the Petersen automotive Museum in Los Angeles, "The American Motorcycle" is a specially crated exhibit featuring "Pioneering machines from the Bunch Family Collection".
The new exhibit showcases over 25 rare motorbikes from the turn of the century to the 1930s - selected from one of the most extensive and internationally renowned collections in the world. "The exhibit will highlight some of the rarest and most historically significant motorcycles ever produced and explore the contributions of American motorcycling pioneers."
Featured motorcycles include an 1898 Cleveland Tricycle, one of America's oldest motorized cycles from a pioneering manufacturer, featuring the first front spring fork suspension; a 1904 Thomas Auto-Bi, created by the E.R. Thomas Company, the first motorcycle manufacturer in America to design and build its own bikes, a 1905 Nelk, one of the few surviving models from this Palo Alto manufacturer, featuring advanced technology for its time, including a rubber-mounted engine, water-cooling, and an overhead camshaft; and a 1911 Marvel, designed by the legendary Glenn Curtiss.
