Archive for August, 2012

August 2, 2012

Swinging Sixties

Like bears to honey: they not only sold bike with their velocity performance(race on Sunday; sell on Monday); but also with who you could attract whilst being the Captain of such a machine. By ‘Eck the Sixties looked fun. A photographer captures the sunny scene like David Hemmings character in Antonioni’s Blow-Up.

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“it’s a six-fifty luv; fancy a ride?”

August 1, 2012

Mr Haswell & his 3½ HP Triumph

The Olympics are where records are typically broken; well here’s an old distance time trial over One Hundred miles over a Century ago. 1911 was early years in speed and endurance but then as now it sold bikes!

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Now if I can just get my Moto to cover this distance without karking it!