Description
Vintage motorcycle racing is a sport about one thing, and this colour frame is that thing: a rider leaned hard into a corner in team leathers, knee down, with a second rider blurred and following behind.
A motorcycle in a corner is a picture of a decision that has already been made. The lean angle was committed to before the corner arrived and cannot be adjusted halfway through, which is why a leaned bike looks tense in a way a cornering car never does. The second rider behind supplies the reason for the risk.
Vintage motorcycle racing at full lean
The diagonal of the lean gives this frame movement across the wall, so it does better hung on its own or as the leading frame of a group than buried in the middle of a grid. Colour makes it the warm piece among monochrome neighbours, and it holds up at large sizes where the leathers and the blur both scale.
Why a bike turns by pushing the wrong way
Above walking pace a motorcycle is steered by pressing the bar on the side you want to go, which momentarily steers the front wheel the other way and lays the machine into the turn. It is counter-intuitive, universal and explained at Wikipedia. No rider, machine, series or circuit is recorded for this frame.
Hang it with
Two that sit well beside it: coastal dirt bike jump poster, vintage Porsche 911 racing poster, or browse the whole motorsport poster collection.
Printed and shipped by Montclair
Every Montclair poster is made to order, so nothing is stocked and nothing is ever out of stock. Yours is printed with archival pigment inks rather than dye, as a giclee at 300 dpi on 200 gsm (80 lb) archival matte paper, FSC-certified or equivalent, with a smooth, uncoated, non-reflective surface at 0.26 mm (10.3 mils). It goes on the press within 72 hours. Delivery is tracked and free worldwide, typically 8 to 13 days, with shipping already inside the price. Unframed posters ship rolled in a rigid tube. Framing is available from 27×35 cm to 70×100 cm in solid wood, assembled by hand with hanging hardware fitted to the back.
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