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 ...

The Black Pearl was unveiled at the Bigtwin Bike Show in Rosmalen, Holland, next to a poster of Captain Jack Sparrow. But unlike the legendary sea vessel of the silver screen, this Black Pearl is a ...

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 ...

Some of the earliest motorcycles ran on steam, and the newest ones run on battery power. In between, over a century of internal combustion engines acquainted humanity with the unparalleled thrill of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

This motorcycle appearing in Russia is a delightful throwback to the technology of the 1860's that would come to inspire steampunk. The uploader, Virtuoso, claims the bike was originally built in 1869 ...