"CROCKER MOTORCYCLES 1346 VENICE BLVD" [BY 'DIGITALCRICKETSLLC' POOTUBE] . . . . A HOMECOMING TALE WITH A DIFFERENCE . . . . TWO OUTSTANDING CROCKERS GOING BACK TO THE FUTURE . . . . 1346 VENICE IS WHERE IT ALL REALLY BEGAN FOR WHAT WAS ARGUABLY THE GREATEST AMERICAN V-TWIN EVER MADE . . . . AS ADVANCED A DESIGN AS ANYTHING FOR THE DAY.

A great and superbly informative post on the Vintagent blog yesterday set me off on the Crocker search and deploy mission, I was going to put up a tidy example of the celebrated Indian Conversion OHV model in its road going form but went with this just because of the historical context . . . . Albert Crocker kicked it off at this address all those years ago, resulting in a series of bikes that were mechanically superior to nearly all others of their time, but, as history tells us, ultimately the costs of producing these amazing two wheelers proved their undoing . . . . among other less known factors.

Go and have a read of the Vintagent's write-up for some illumination on a subject that has been clouded by rumour, myth and bullshit for the last sixty years, the Crocker Motorcycle Company . . . . one man's pursuit of  excellence, innovation and quality, a legacy that lives on today through the remaining bikes that time couldn't kill . . . .