June 15, 2011
Ann Margaret flinging her ‘bye, bye, birdy’ persona to the desert winds and taking off down the road Captain America style. Point it to the horizon and keep going!
Too Kool 4 Skool, fer shure…
Hardtail triumph with well sprung seat.
Redhead Sara and her ride, low seat and flipped bars; a moto for the road.
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June 14, 2011
Over the years the Royal Mail have used motorcycles for rapid delivery; much before FedEx and the like. We’ll look at some of their bikes later, however in 2005 they created a commemorative series dedicated to British bikes including: a Rotary Norton, Royal Enfield, Vincent, BSA and Brough Superior.
Taking pride of place at 47 pence is a Triumph Speed Triple.
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June 12, 2011
The late 60’s and early 70’s was the time when the chopper culture entered it’s golden, glitzy, chrome-laden, and psychadelic colored era. Here’a couple of examples of the style. Not necessarily raked forks all the time, but a semi-bobbed style. This one has a super open-road portrait stretching into the distance. Insect-like headlights, but a comfortable riding geometry.
U-shaped bucket seat, peanut tank and raked hardtail frmae; that’s chopper style. The british twins were used as much as the harley v-twins are seen today in these custom specials.
Crumb-esque drawings add to tne light hearted nature of the lifestyle…
…keep on ridin’!
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June 12, 2011
Ooh, to have a place to wheel in a British Iron needing some tinkering, overhaul or just plain looked at! A space with a workbench, tools, wireless playing, a shelf with a cat curled up with sleepy eyes watcing over your work…
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June 11, 2011
A triptych of one of the old pistons from the Bonnie. They are quite elegant in their purposeful form.
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June 9, 2011
Beautiful loose sketch from some brochure in the 60’s, A sense of light adventure to be had astride a Meriden twin. Won’t go too far or fast with her skirt though!
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June 8, 2011
… yup it’s wor blokey bloke Barry Sheene, two wheeled racer boyhood hero. Great shot on this ealry 70’s Yamaha with a ginormous dront 4LS drum. Duck helmet icon evident also. V for Victory!
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June 8, 2011
Mascot goes anywhere; loves to flap ears in breeze; supports weekend racer!
Speedy lads enjoy the desert flats…
You gotta start somewhere; whether two wheels or four!
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June 7, 2011
When I were just a wee lad… one of the early motorcycle inspirations was a Ladybird book called Tootles the Taxi; within its thin tome was a page with this picture on it with a small verse.
I’m Minkie the motorbike
Off for a run,
Gathering up speed
Can be glorious fun !
For I am a racer
And run with a zest,
To win all the races –
North, South, East and West
A zippy, smilin’, Norton Manx droning around a racetrack, rider crouched for speed, front wheel slightly loft!
An early edition had the boy, girl and dog on the track ~ removed from later versions due to safety concerns of kids wandering around Brands Hatch during races…. where are those stewards!
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June 5, 2011
…I’m gonna make a big star out of you…
…..All you gotta do is, act naturally!
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June 5, 2011
A clean example of a cafe’d Oil-in-Frame Bonnie, Right hand shifting, discs, so must be T140V from 75 or 76. Nice black paint scheme and grey frame. This helped my own rebuild inspiration…
The racing hump seat , a reupholstered cover available from Vietnam of all places, affords a further speedy line to the desired appearance.
Eliminated front fender gives a bobbed look too. Clip-Ons the correct stance.
Close-up view of frame, timing side of engine and rear sets. The standard ‘boxy’ side covers actually look right with the grey frame finish and dull engine casings.
Anotehr view of the Norman Hyde rearsets, close in appearance to mine, as well as the gear change lever.
A final rearview shot of the rounded ‘rump’ and the long pipes; altogether a balanced build with clean lines and serious purpose of speed.
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June 4, 2011
A hot rod racer set up for a sub 10 second run… 1950cc at least! What a sound this must have made!
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June 3, 2011
A clean fairly original 76 Trident. $6500
…and a 79 Bonnie. On Consignment at Morries $poa
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June 2, 2011
An ink and brush comic of the benefits of owning a triumph; could you see this on a Ducati advert today?
If only my brakes worked as well as this… hopefully someday!
Classic charcoal rendered Thunderbird, crisp graphics.
Line drawing of bike with engine as photograph. This is the introduction of the 5 speed gearbox on the T120V (’73). Also showing the larger UK spec tank that I have bought from Ebay in UK, soon to arrive!
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June 1, 2011
Perfect early Sunday morning weather, 60’s, sun, fragrant woods, cool breezes up the ravines, an occasional glimpse of the lake and quiet roads. Went up to Lake Bluff; bike running well too! Doesn’t get much better than this!
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