March 2, 2013
Seeing as we’re on a music rock ‘n’ roll let’s delve into the two-wheeled antics of a pair of the fathers of rock: Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. Well Keith has always been a skinny malinty so the diminutive Triumph Cub seems like the best choice for him.
The right-wing brother of the great Christopher Hitchens said of Keith: “a capering streak of living gristle who ought to be exhibited as a warning to the young of what drugs can do to you even if you’re lucky enough not to choke on your own vomit”. His long endured reputation stretches ahead of him. But he sure can write a guitar riff or two!
Whilst he’s toting around some manorial grounds such as Stargroves. I can’t see him riding the public roads, Sir Mick take the controls of a Honda. Well ‘you meet the nicest people’. Hope he gets some satisfaction.
Posted in 60's, Honda, Music, Triumph Motorcycle |
Leave a Comment »
February 28, 2013
Steve, motorcycle, sorting, sorted!
Looks like the sublime Metisse scrambler; knobbly shod, high piped and Meriden companions behind.
Posted in 60's, Steve McQueen, Triumph Motorcycle |
Leave a Comment »
February 27, 2013
On the continuing theme of sun, bikes, fun and yikes; here’s our old friends Bud Ekins and Steve McQueen haring along some back roads SoCal trail.
I like to see Triumph Twins put to good use, heeled over the way physics dictate forces, speed and balsnce; knobby tyres hardly touching the gravelly path, and the riders concentrating on the way ahead. “Watch out for that ditch lad
Posted in 60's, Racing, Steve McQueen, Triumph Motorcycle |
Leave a Comment »
February 25, 2013
Sons of the Desert: nope not a Laurel & Hardy adventure; but a jaunt across rutted, scrub patched scorched back country in SoCal or Baja. Knobbly tires shod on a tough old purely functional sled. Looks like way too much fun!
Is that an AMC Javelin poking its nose in?
Posted in 60's, Photography, Triumph Motorcycle |
5 Comments »
February 21, 2013
What a ride it would be: racing a steam train. The powerful coal driven powering along and a Speed Twin following alongside. The 1960 Evening Star 2-10-0 heralded the closing pages of the steam age, a ’60 Triumph eyes the future of road speed.
Fire up the engine stoker, keep shoveling!
Posted in 60's, Motorcycle Art, Triumph Motorcycle |
2 Comments »
February 15, 2013
One notable two-wheeler was seen last evening at the Auto Show: a custom Harley Davidson propped up next to an all black ’69 GTO. The engine was a shiny piece of art and the cycle work a careful balance of cleanliness and line. For example the rear drum brake was hydraulically activated with the line running within the frame tubes, a suicide gear lever under the left thigh and omitted front brake as well as the throttle lines inside the handlebars created the perfect minimal handlebars. p.s. this moto is actually an award winning custom chopper by Gas Monkey Garage which is televised for The Discovery Channel’s Fast ‘n’Loud show.
The black car? A slick ripplin’ black highway speedster.
Here’s a stock photo of FRED, in the desert… The rose color looks canny under a bright sun with a scrub landscape behind it and blacktop stretching into the distance.
Posted in 60's, Cars, Chicago, Harley Davidson |
1 Comment »
January 27, 2013
Honey! Let’s pack the bags and hit the road! A combination and caravan in tow. The highway can be our home. I can’t see speed being important; it’s the journey that counts. But I’d bet there’d be a hefty tailback.
Adventure lies ahead to those who dare…
Posted in 60's, Sidecar, Travel |
Leave a Comment »
December 31, 2012
Let’s all see a jump into the New Year a lot more safely than our old friend Bob Craig ‘Evel’ Knievel. His Sin City leap over the Caesars Palace fountain on New Years Eve in 1967 though launching his celebrity it landed him in a months coma…
You be careful out there folks!
Posted in 60's, Photography, Triumph Motorcycle |
Leave a Comment »
December 16, 2012
You’re nicked sonny! We’ve been catching up on some recent Brit-TV of late; one show in particular has been a fun show to watch: George Gently. Based on novels by Alan Hunter and based in Northumberland and Durham it follows the exploits of London DCI from Scotland Yard relocated up North and dealing with the more backwater crimes of the Geordie vicinity. The first episode had a storyline revolving around a biker gang who tear around the countryside and towns on Triumphs & Beezas. Indeed the ringleader, Ricky, has a beautiful featherbed fram’d, manx-tank’d Norton.
An interesting note: The actor playing Ricky, Richard Armitage, plays the main dwarf character, Thorin Oakenshield, in the upcoming Hobbit film.
Posted in 60's, cafe racer, Film and TV, Norton |
Leave a Comment »
December 15, 2012
Line, colour and shape: put ’em together just-so and visions appear. Here’s the classic lines of a ’68 Bonnie, considered by many to be the best of ’em!
This online CAD drawing was downloaded then rendered in Photoshop.
Posted in 60's, Motorcycle Art, Triumph Bonneville |
Leave a Comment »
November 13, 2012
a.k.a. Chopper, Twenty Second Century, graffiti scrawlin’ sky sufin’ dude from Mega City One. Or as we know this these days and splay framed, long forked, do-dad added, straight line only, peanut-tank’d moto from the hazy days of the sixties.
Marlon…
Posted in 60's, Chopper, Photography, Triumph Motorcycle |
Leave a Comment »
October 12, 2012
A couple of colourful brochure covers from nigh on fifty years ago. One promotes both the the worlds best AND the fastest. The No. 9 racer speeds out of the booklet like the Bonneville’s must have shot out of the showroom floors on any Monday after the Sunday racing. Clean graphics very evocative of the mid sixties. We’re watching the TV series called George Gently which is produced with a super sense of time (1964). And, to boot, based in Northumberland with Geordie accents aplenty.
Posted in 60's, Motorcycle Poster, Triumph Motorcycle |
4 Comments »
September 19, 2012
Don Draper, or is it Dick Whitman? Nevertheless the actor Jon Hamm plays the cool advertising giant in the AMC superlative drama series Mad Men. That is the couldron of creativity centered on Madison Avenue of the early sixties New York NY. His clean-cut demeanour carries his firms approached to The Brand along like an afternoon scotch and several Marlboro. The Matchless moto he’s seen here on strengthens his edginess of a man passing through the cusp-like history of the 60’s. Look at the cut of that suit… sharp enough for a Brit-Iron? Yup!
Hamm is also the once boyfriend of Liz Lemon from 30 Rock, Drew Baird, Tina Feys great comedy based on a TV comedy show. A fake motorcycle ‘prop’ Hamm is in control of doesn’t have the panache of the Matchless…
Posted in 60's, Film and TV |
Leave a Comment »
geordiebiker.com 