If loud pipes save lives, you might want to think twice about riding this bike, even if you can afford to buy it. A 1894 Roper Steam Motorcycle will be crossing the block at the Auctions America by RM ...

One of the world's most valuable motorcycles will go under the hammer early next year. It was hand-built by American inventor Sylvester H. Roper, one of two people with legitimate claims of inventing ...

Mind you, once you move into rocket bike territory, why stop at steam? The fastest motorcycle ever to complete a quarter mile was a hydrogen-peroxide rocket bike, piloted with extreme courage by ...

Rene van Tuil of Revatu Customs knows how the custom->ke296 game works. His latest creation, dubbed the Black Pearl, perfectly illustrates how some builders are fine with eschewing performance ...

It's almost Independence Day here in the U.S., and I'd like to ask you to take a moment from giving those Redcoats the finger and chugging Pabst to reflect on a true American hero, Sylvester Roper, ...

A 60-year-old gent has just smashed a new record for the steam-powered machines of our industry – and he’s gone and done it on veggie oil, using a bike he built in his shed. If that isn’t a thumb-your ...

RM Auctions say sit Auctions America unit will offer an 1894 Roper Steam Motorcycle during its Las Vegas sale that runs Jan. 12 - 14. and includes more than 400 collector motorcycles. RM says it ...

When Bill Barnes showed up at the East Coast Timing Association in Arkansas with his Stanley Steamer motorcycle, he was a man on a mission. It was a mission to beat his previous record and hold on to ...

It is a bike whose inventor was once arrested for riding it but later released when police couldn't work out what crime he had committed. And with a record like that it's not hard to see why it didn't ...

The Industrial Revolution's strides produced many miracles. Advancements in metallurgy and improved technological practices made the mass production of precision parts possible and, with time, ...