STEVE MCQUEEN “Quite simply, he was the King of Cool, the man women wanted to be with, and men wanted to be.”

Any Sunday, is it the best motorcycle film ever made? Well, there’s a strong case for it, but the influence of Steve McQueen on motorcycles spread far wider than that and in fact it’s still being seen today. Witness the £134,447 paid at Bonhams’ recent Las Vegas sale for the ex-McQueen 1938 Triumph Speed Twin, restored for Steve in the late 1970s by his friend Bud Ekins, who was a member of the 1964 American ISDT team alongside the star of The Great Escape. As in the 1963 movie, McQueen and Ekins (who did