Gifts
Gifts for Motorbike Lovers
Someone who loves bikes is hard to surprise - they have read every catalogue and own most of the kit. The exception is their own machine as a piece of art, which almost nobody thinks to give. Photograph their bike (the two-minute guide has the angle), upload it to the Paint Shop, and preview it free as an oil painting, an ink blueprint or a vintage poster before you commit a penny.
Not sure you can get a photo? Buy by what they love about riding. The road-trip romantics get the Great Roads posters - Applecross, the NC500, Snake Pass; the racing obsessives get the vintage racing posters; the ones who love a particular kind of machine get a blueprint study from the matching bike-style page.
Framed pieces arrive ready to hang, so the present needs no follow-up trip to a framer. UK delivery and VAT are in the price, from £34 as a poster to £85 framed at A2. More across the full motorbike gifts range, including gifts for bikers and personalised motorbike gifts.
For the fan who doesn’t ride
Plenty of motorbike lovers watch more than they ride — and the Race Day series was painted for them. Coast Road Grand Prix is a fictional 1962 seaside road race in art-deco poster style, leaning machines and bunting in the wind; Mountain Course is an imagined island road race climbing through deco peaks — the climb, the cloud, the drop; The Sprint catches the flag drop at a standing start. Paddock Morning — mechanics around a bare racing machine before the off — is the quiet one connoisseurs pick.
For the historian and the restorer
The Machine series reads like a workshop manual framed: annotated blueprint elevations, three line weights, an exploded engine inset on the Classic Single. For the lover of a specific breed of bike, the bike-style pages — cafe racer, scrambler, bobber, adventure — match the obsession precisely.
Workshop notes
Questions, answered
What do you get someone who loves motorbikes?+
Their own bike as art. Upload a photo to the Paint Shop, preview free in seconds, and print it gallery-grade - it is the one thing a motorbike lover cannot already own.
A present for a motorbike lover who has everything?+
Make it personal to their machine, or buy by their passion: Great Roads posters for the tourer, vintage racing posters for the race fan, a blueprint study for the builder.
Good gift for a motorbike lover under £40?+
An A3 poster of their own bike or a Great Roads print is £34 with UK delivery and VAT included - personal and wall-ready, comfortably under budget.
They love bikes but don’t ride — what works?+
The Race Day posters — art-deco road-race scenes like Coast Road Grand Prix and Mountain Course — or a blueprint machine study. Neither needs a licence, both reward knowing the subject.
Is there a gift for a road-racing fan?+
Mountain Course — an imagined island road race climbing through stylised peaks — is the series’ nod to the great road races, painted as an original rather than licensed merchandise.
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