November 12, 2015
Sunless Speed
Let’s head into the weekend at a hundred miles per hour – average! This is the beefy Black Shadow which, in 1952, set a six hour endurance record on the racetrack at Montlhery. This very machine was sold at auction a couple of years ago for $200,000. That’s four hundred bucks a mile.
November 11, 2015
In Person
Going to the Chicago launch event for the all new Bonnies and Thruxtons… Can’t wait!
November 10, 2015
Yellow Thruxton
Yellow is the color people most often associate with amusement, optimism, gentleness, and spontaneity, but also with duplicity, envy, jealousy, avarice, and, with cowardice. It plays an important role in Asian culture, where it is seen as the color of happiness, glory, wisdom, harmony and culture.
Quite a range of emotions in this color.
The word yellow comes from the Old English geolu, geolwe meaning yellow, or yellowish, derived from the Proto-Germanic word gelwaz “yellow”. It has the same Indo-European base as the word yell; which means both bright and gleaming, and to cry out. Yellow is a color which cries out for attention.
November 9, 2015
Patsy
Lovely Joanna Lumley looking lively red on the mighty 90’s Triumph Daytona. Photo by Terry O’Neill.
November 8, 2015
Hippy Hipsters from Hip-City.
We’re more like the Hip-replacement crowd… But the fashion-fun folks at Vogue magazine know a cool prop when they see one. A lightly customized new classic Triumph Scrambler. I’m going to teach Geordie how to ride on pillion like that.
November 7, 2015
Che
Ernesto Guevara. Doctor, revolutionary, icon, cigar smoker. And horse rider. We know his exploits across South America on his old Norton but here he is in full guerilla mode riding through the Sierra Maestra mountains of southern Cuba looking the part. A new world awaits those who dare.
November 6, 2015
Viva la revolución
Wonderfully evocative photo from 1956. It’s film actress Lina Salomé on her classy Harley Davidson in Havana Cuba. I was in a lecture about planning, design and landscape architecture in the largest Caribbean island today and it reminded me of our trip there ten years ago.
November 5, 2015
Well it ain’t no Bonfire Night…
…but our stunt rider Evel Knievel sure can make leaping through flames look easy!
A clip from some late seventies pulp comic book to challenge the might of Marvel or DC, as well as promote toys.
November 4, 2015
Proper Job
Top racing, mechanic, tea-drinking, fast seeking bloke has a birthday today. Guy Martin is 34 today. He’s looking right proper vintage here pouring hisen a brew.
November 3, 2015
The Eye of the Beholder
Beauty can only get you so far; to get the extra mile you also need some talent. The classic Bonnevilles have both in spades. This is the first antipodean advert for the sixties superbike I’ve seen. A nice different angle of the machine offering an anthropomorphic view. Though somewhat cycloptic…
November 2, 2015
Bane
Tom Hardy, who played a gruff low-key Mad Max earlier this year was seen at the Bonneville launch last week. Watch Bronson, Locke, or Warrior to see him in amazing roles.
November 1, 2015
C’mon old lad! Gi’ us a smile!
Classic pose for some rural cove sitting on the superbike of its day.
“You won’t find me galloping along the country lanes on this ruddy thing!”
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