



Good ride on a splendid spring day. Green is the dominant color and spring bloom the main scent.

– a cool hundred mikes around Lake County with a brief sojourn into Wisconsin. I gotta say it but the bike is just a pleasure to ride.

– Lake Bluff was the nearby destination with grey skies overhead. Project site visit to inspect trees that are going to be transplanted. Good to be on the bike in spring. New sheepskin saddle cover is plush and make you want to ride off into the west.

– Made in Nottingham these were on every boys list in the Seventies. They were ridden as if they had an engine like this smart example.

– interesting advertising on the rear of a box truck along the Interstate in the Chicago suburbs. A rabbit (or is it a hare?) riding a speedy sports bike.

There are a few glowing articles out there about the new Triumph Tiger 1200. Redesigned from the ground up. The various models give blistering attitude for the asphalt roadways and the crude off-road trails. Press release was carried out in Portugal.

A new publication from the able mind of once 2000ad editor Steve Macmanus includes this wartime story of a mercenary fighter and his sidekick romping the lush Burmese jungle on a motorcycle combination.

– Kenny Roberts yellow Yamaha spied on Sheridan Road. Nice looking roadster.

Spied just off Michigan Avenue under a towering Sears Tower this colorful scoot sits waiting for some art college hipster to zing off through the urban grid.