It started sideways! I'm the son of a fashion designer and love great clothing. In 2006 I was featured on the Sartorialist blog wearing a vintage outfit. Google made it easier to comment on a blog if you had a blog back then, so I chose the name 'The Vintagent' (a 1940s British term for someone into old cars and bikes), and tentatively began posting photos with descriptions in October 2006. It was the first old-bike blog, and garnered a lot of interest immediately, I suppose because I knew my subject well, had a very large library, and had already owned over 200 motorcycles. My bikes tended to be rare, like Brough Superiors, Zeniths, and racing Nortons, Sunbeams, and Velocettes, and I had a reputation for riding hard and for long distances. As an experiment, in 2007 I committed myself to posting new stories on The Vintagent three times per week, which really grew my following - people like regular content. I totally rebooted The Vintagent website in 2016 to include weekly film content and much better graphics and started making short films. We're making our first feature film currently, about racer, surfer, and filmmaker Richard Vincent.
