
– with a station wagon and sports car in the garage, why not add a motorcycle?

– with a station wagon and sports car in the garage, why not add a motorcycle?

– fill out the form and drop it in to your local Triumph dealer. Cool pencil drawing .

– An Indian motorcycle manufacturer is rereleasing a couple of BSA models with echoes of classic bikes from the past. Both 650 singles, one is based on the Gold Star; the other more dirt oriented. I’d take either!

– One of the “New Hollywood” directors from the seventies, Peter Bogdanovich, passed away this week aged 82. His first foray into movies was as an assistant director under Roger Corman in Wild Angels. A pivotal film that set the scene for what was to come. I’ve always got time to watch his first directorial debut triplet: The Picture Show; What’s up Doc? And Paper Moon. here he looks on as Corman discusses a scene with Peter Fonda.

– Antique bike; ceramics in tall display case; bronze cat; and Terry O’Neill photograph.

– some curious whiskered chap enjoying the saddle prospect from a late sixties T100 Tiger.

– Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin were the it couple in the late Sixties. As his chanteuse, Jane sang and acted is many of his songs and films.

– John Philip Law and Jane Fonda running around on a period Norton in the late Sixties.

– the lines of this legendary bike are well defined in another card from yesterday’s post subject.

– on our road trip through Iowa we stopped in at this impressive collection of motorcycles. Here is a selection of engines spanning 7 decades. More to follow this week!

– marvelous study in pencil of a classic Norton Triumph hybrid. Nice balance of fine detail and faded edges.

– let’s enjoy the King of Cool from a legendary scene in The Great Escape as he readies for the fence jump.

Like some desolate sun bleached scene from a Sam Peckinpah film.

– more rugged undertakings, as seems to have been the theme this week, with a purposeful alleyway machine. The whiff of green contrasts pleasantly with the gritty red brick wall behind.