JOURNAL
Oct 14, 2022
Denim Hunting In Japan's Okayama Pefecture
If you take the Shinkansen bullet train for five hours southwest from Tokyo you’ll arrive you’ll have gotten yourself pretty damn close to the heart of Japanese denim production. It’s here that Nihon Menpu has been spinning up some of the world’s best denim for over a hundred years.
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Sep 8, 2022
SO LONG SUMMER: A 35mm Lookbook by Paige
Our girl Paige took a bunch of random Steeltown stuff on the road, from the cotton-candy skies of Treasure Island to the sun-baked landscapes of Sedona and the vintage glitz of Los Angeles, armed with an Olympus Infinity and a couple rolls of 35mm film.
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Jun 8, 2022
Fathers Day Gear Guide
Time to buy something rad for that cool dad in yer life. To make things easier, we've thrown together a round up of some of the raddest and newest stuff here at Steeltown Garage.
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May 25, 2022
Gentleman's Ride 2022
When we first reached out to the Gentleman's Ride about hosting a ride here in Hamilton, we could never have imagined being here six years later, riding with a group of amazing men and women who, since we started the ride in 2017, have collectively raised over half a million dollars for men's health.
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Apr 4, 2022
What We're Reading: Off Road Vehicle Articles in Vintage Playboys
In the July 1972 issue, Playboy writer Ken W. Purdy published an article on the emergence of All Terrain Vehicles specifically designed for the consumer leisure market.
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Mar 17, 2022
The Story Behind Our 'Known Pleasures' Art
No one seems to know that we've hidden motorcycles on our Known Pleasures Steeltown Art Print. But I guess that was s...
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Feb 12, 2022
Lost Trims: The Dodge Dart Hang 10
Introduced in the chill of February 1973 at the Chicago Auto Show, the Dodge Dart Hang 10 concept warmed show-goers’ hearts with its sunny surf-themed presentation, surrounded on its well-lit platform with surfboards, parasols, and sand.
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Jan 26, 2022
No Glory in the West - A Playlist
We have a confession to make. We dig country music. But not really the beers and sunshine kinda country music. More like the yesterdays wine kinda country. The kinda country that drives a splintered stake right into the bleeding heart of the melancholic existence we all share.
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Jan 21, 2022
This Is Zane
Zane is a perfect example of how us humans are never 'just one thing'. A doctor. An artist. An asshole. A biker. A saint. A winner. A criminal. A parent. We're more nuanced than that. We're a buncha different people all rolled into one body. An amalgamation. And we're always changing.
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Jan 8, 2022
What We're Watching: Scandal (1950)
Akira Kurosawa's 1950 protest film on the Americanization of the Japanese press, and the motorcycle as a symbol of freedom.
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Dec 28, 2021
Our Bottom Nine
Instead of revisiting our most popular posts on Instagram, we decided to shed some light on the posts that we think deserved a little more love from the algorithm than they received.
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Nov 22, 2021
Field Notes: Road Tripping the Pacific Northwest
Photographer Erin Mitchell heads from Mount Rainier, Washington to Brookings, Oregon snapping epic pics and putting some Steeltown Field Goods to the test in the wilds of the Pacific Northwest.
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