PAUL D’ORLÉANS
darkness our two-dimensional projection, distorted and flat. So it is with the myths surrounding motorcyclists in the western world, where the shadow of the Dark Rider has embedded in the public’s psyche for generations. Riders are often portrayed as Satan’s mechanical henchmen, obnoxious yobs, or, at best, inclined to suicide by a cocktail of asphalt and hurtling steel. This wasn’t the case before the Second World War: motorcycles only acquired a touch of evil via the subtle sensitivities of artists at first, then through the
