Smashing ride this morning up into Wisconsin with quiet roads and nice breezes. Bonus was a classic car show in Winnetka on the return leg.
July 22, 2025
Crazy Train
“Prince of Darkness” Ozzy Osborne passed away today. Great photo of him flying across a field on a dirt bike. RIP 1948-2025 Black Sabbath were truly the foundation of Heavy Metal in the early seventies.
April 21, 2025
Insect on a Motorcycle
Excellent Sci-Fi art from Japanese master Shigeru Komatsuzaki (1915 – 2001). This is the box art for retro Japanese “Kamen Rider” a cyborg grasshopper who tears around on his motorcycle fighting kaijin supervillains.
December 31, 2024
Peanuts
We saw the passing of a great humanitarian last weekend. He accomplished so much after his presidency which is over 4 decades worth. A naval lieutenant on a submarine and farmer gave a solid base to take on his life of service.
There was a Judge Dredd story from 2000ad in 1978 with his face upon Mount Rushmore. classic Brian Bolland artwork.
December 8, 2024
Motorcycle Mary
“Okay. Why Not?”
Famed racing legend Mary McGee who passed away a couple of weeks back at the age of 87 started her motorcycle racing career as a suggested sidetrack from her car racing shenanigans. In 1960, while she was racing a Porsche Spyder in Santa Barbara, California, the car’s owner, Czech race-car icon Vasek Polak, suggested to McGee’s husband that she should ride a motorcycle to improve her car-racing skills. When he told her, McGee responded with, “Okay. Why not?” She became the first woman to hold an roadcracing FIM (Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme) licence. Friend Steve McQueen suggested she get into dirt bikes and attend SoCal desert races. She rode Husky’s well into her 70’s after moving to Nevada. Mary McGee nee Connor 1937-2024
October 10, 2024
Stunt Jumper
A visit to the Air & Space museum in DC included an exhibit about the chase for speed. Part of which was the thrill of flight on two wheels. EK was the king of leaping buses, canyons, rivers and the like. Here was one oh his Harley Davidsons used for airy antics.
June 30, 2024
Coffee and Classics
Enjoyable morning in Winnetka wandering amongst some gorgeous motorcars. German, British, Italian, Swedish. The sumptuous curves and elegant lines covering midcentury engineering. The weather was perfect to match the machinery.
June 21, 2024
Club on Wheels
Film
We went to see this film tonight. Based on photography and recorded interviews from the late 60’s and early 70’s it follows a bike club in Chicago as they make their way through the Midwest on Harleys clad in oily leather jackets emblazoned with “Vandals”. Tom Hardy is leader, Austin Butler the too-cool-for-school member and Jodie Comer is marvelous at his wife. Two-Thumbs up!
June 20, 2024
Liam Devlin & Molly
Great film about a fictitious plan to kidnap Churchill during WW2. Donald Sutherland plays an IRA agent helping the Germans infiltrate a Norfolk village. Michael Caine is the Fallschirmjäger who parachutes in with his troops to undertake the mission. Jenny Agutter is Molly. A Royal Enfield Flying Flea is the motorcycle scooting around tge countryside. Sadly Donald passed away today aged 88.
June 2, 2024
Car Show Flexing
On our ride today which took us past the west suburbs through small towns in McHenry County we happened upon a classic car show. What’s more they were a superb selection of American muscle cars. GTO’s, Mustangs, Chevelle’s, Olds Cutlass’; a few hot rods based on a Ford Deuce; and a lovely Chevy Nomad. Good roads out there too!
February 12, 2024
Red Sportster
A thing of beauty! 1970 Triumph GT6 by legendary Italian automobile designer Giovanni Michelotti who also created cars of art for Lancia, Ferrari and Maserati. If music was a solid then the orchestral symphony would look like this.
January 23, 2024
Bell Bottoms
Long legged Triumph chopper lets a Seventies couple enjoy the fresh air of the open road. The S reg 245 Volvo estate in the garage dates this after ‘77. Good photo for the album!
January 21, 2024
Racer 65
Old Toy Motorcycle
My father is helping clear out some old things from a lift. He happened upon this item. Stern faced racer with Suzuki emblazoned across the front. The mice from the mouse organ in Emily’s shop might need to roll their sleeves up on this one.
January 9, 2024
Tonka
This was a lot of fun in the back garden. Diggin’ holes and fillin’’em back in!
January 5, 2024
Black Bean Soup
I loved watching these guys as a kid. This is what I thought America was like (or the Waltons). I used to have a beat up leather coat for going to smoky pubs. It was my Starsky jacket. I know he had his personal demons but he played a good detective in Ken Hutchinson . RIP David Soul (1943-2024)
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