Welcome to Rollin’ Free!

Welcome to Rollin’ Free! If you’ve made it here, we’re off to a good start because obviously you’re curious. But you may be thinking…hell, another blog and worse still another about motorcycles. How much can there be to talk about and why would you want to pass your free time here as opposed to elsewhere. Well, there’s not going to be any high pressure selling here. I’ll let my prose and my subject matter speak for itself and you’ll decide for me if I’m still doing this in 6 months, 1 year, etc…

So what of the subject matter, what specific niche of the motorcycle industry are we going to explore here? The broad focus, as you may have seen on my title bar, is the European market. But we are going to pay particular attention to the French market. Now why on earth would I want to concentrate on a market that barely has any presence? In fact, it’s precisely for that reason. Once upon a time there existed a huge number of motorbike manufacturers in France (view the title bar!). Of course, they’ve all but disappeared now. But the history is rich, unexplored and largely unknown to the Anglo-speaking world. Vintage British, American, German and Japanese machines have become highly valued collection pieces. But as beautiful and technically advanced as some vintage French motorcycles may have been, information has been slow to leak out to the international community. Among other objectives I have for this blog is to increase your awareness of this exciting history…

Come back tomorrow to find out more about the future of Rollin’ Free!