Evocative portrait of a Triumph Cub. Grassy lanes bordered by a beautifully crafted dry stone walling. You can hear the singles clatter echoing off gritstone hedge. Pennine Fells beckon the rider higher to wilder trails.
September 10, 2014
♂
The bulldog breed: symbol of masculine power. Mars the bringer of War; the spear used in the symbol of male gender. Also the alchemists symbol for iron, thought to be the red planets composition by early stargazers. It is actually Iron oxide or Hematite. Fe2O3
I would hope that rust won’t affect the diminutive Tiger Cub…
September 9, 2014
Black and Black
Streetside Bonneville in a shadowy color scheme that Henry Ford would have approved.
September 8, 2014
“Red hair, sir, in my opinion, is dangerous”
As wrote P.G. Wodehouse. I’ll curse as much as I like but she’s a Bonnie bike.
“Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous red head.” Lucille Ball
September 7, 2014
A trip of two halves
Beautiful sunny early September Sunday afternoon. Had a place to go in Lake Forest so I took the bike… The run out was just perfect: quiet roads, cooling breeze, sunny skies, bike ticking over well. Coming back? Bike didn’t start (at first) and ran a bit rough on the return journey. Thinking it’ll stall at any moment I nursed her home… Battery had good charge, oil level good, but didn’t check the plugs… Hmmm . A new model moto sounds better all the time…. ! Press button to start and go!
September 6, 2014
The Bonnie
After nearly two months laid up in the dark confines of my workplace’s subterranean garage, the bike saw some oily mitts getting some much needed work done. This was to button up the primary cover, setting the pressure plate, reaffixing the rearset which overlaps its rear bolts, and topping oils to enable a smart kick of the starter to roar the engine to life…. “She Lives!”. It was all a four handed task so my friend Dean offered extra paws to arrange bolting.
Test ride tomorrow!
September 5, 2014
Street Triple
…now here is a motorcycle! The sublime, the mighty, the superlative…
September 4, 2014
W5 TAT
Big Brute of a Bike: heavy wheeled, rude-red framed, and hefty tank’d. As long as the Bonnies engine has been sorted then this mercurial mover would surely be a barrel o’ fun.
Tat this is not!
September 3, 2014
Right Side
Nicely executed rendering of a pre-unit Triumph engine by some Paul Blute. Good reflections and form. There is an artful technicality to it.
September 2, 2014
Italian Design
Not likely: when the booted country wanted cool they imported the works of Britain. Norton Villiers Triumph. As well as AJS. Bepi Koelliker was the roman anglophile in question bringing all vehicular things blighty to Rome.
Hadrian would be shocked!
September 1, 2014
‘Itched
Been a very busy few days recently… Hence the lack of in depth blog entries. My wife and I renewed our vows over the weekend. We surely Do!
August 28, 2014
Small is Beautiful
A right looker it appears: selling the nimble featherweight attribute of the diminutive Cub in the mid fifties. This must have looked quite sharp for its day.
August 27, 2014
The Sixties…
We all know it was the swingin’ sixties but a tiger on a swing looks a bit more gibbon like rather than hip…
August 26, 2014
Advice
Sage advice indeed. Your body and mind can be trained to accomplish; but to feel the inner success of the achievement you need at least a modicum of heart. A vital spark of live that makes fulfillment true.
August 25, 2014
Oily Daubs
A found interweb painting of some Triumph rider and his steed. An appearance of emerging from shadow into the sunlight. The feeling one gets when taking off down the road.
