Road Worthy – So, after checking carburetor slides are moving in synchronicity a timing light can flash to ensure ignition sparks fire correctly. The bike should sound like a Swiss Watch. Fill ‘er up and get out on the road youth!
August 19, 2016
6 of 6
August 18, 2016
5 of 6
Two Thou in, Fout Thou out – cold engine for valve adjustments on the tappets. I listen for a barely audible tic-tac from the rockers. Also respirator filters to be clean. Carburetor tomorrow folks!
August 14, 2016
Hidden Horsepower 1 of 6
On Vacation this week- here’s a magazine article (which will be posted as installments) about wringing a few more ponies out of a seventies Triumph twin. Good Luck!
August 5, 2016
Goodbye grey skies hello blue
Happy Days – a musical version of the seventies TV show about the fifties will star include Pinky Tuscadero. Super promo shoot of an aptly attired Fonzie girlfriend with bobbed Triumph.
August 1, 2016
SPF ’72
The Bonnie looked quite splendid in the sun yesterday. Running quite well and handles the road with aplomb. Mad Dogs & Englishmen ‘n’ all that!
July 19, 2016
Red Special
The Fireplace – Brian May’s guitar, was made by him and his father Harold back in the sixties. It has created, with the magical touches of a musical maestro, some of the greatest sounds of the late Twentieth Century.
The Old Lady – her secrets were revealed during a full nut & bolt restoration. The tremolo arm is sprung by a pair of motorcycle valve springs from a 1928 Panther.
Happy Birthday Brian! 69 today!
June 22, 2016
Highway Song
Boots made for Riding – record producer Mickie Most takes singer Nancy Sinatra on his BSA Shooting Star. Aptly named single the registration on the number plate signifies a’69 or ’70 model. She was in London to record The Highway Song.
June 17, 2016
Call Me!
“It’s for you hoo!” Or so they said back in the eighties when selling off British Telecom. Well let’s take the Way Back machine a little further to enjoy a big tire’d Triumph flat tracker a la Gary Nixon. “appelle-moi mon cherie!”
June 14, 2016
Shredding
Last time I tried to have a go at a skateboard was in 1979. I didn’t fare well and didn’t get the hang of it. I’d rather take a skoot on the Bonneville…
June 9, 2016
Sit on it!
Richie Cunningham takes Fonzies Moto for a spin in Arnold’s Diner.
Then again through the front door of his parents, Howard & Marion’s, house. Fonz wears his leather jacket over his dressing gown.
June 8, 2016
Ayyy!
Arthur Fonzarelli- aka The Fonz. TV’s Happy Days’ King of Cool, riding into the scene on his Triumph TR5 and collar-up leather jacket. Greasy slick back hair and a fist bump to turn on the jukebox or start a car. 50’s Anericana when is was cool to reminisce during the doldrum 70’s – look up American Graffiti.
Richie Cunningham looks on in his ever bemused attitude.
Triumph-amundo
May 26, 2016
Remember
One of the reminder decals from an early Honda Goldwing sparkling in the Midwestern sun last weekend. Top of the list? “Preserve Nature” in three languages… Think Global.
May 25, 2016
The European Female
An acquaintance owns the immaculate R75/5 BMW with reflective toaster tank which starts off this round of five European moto’s from Main Street Hebron. Next up in counterclockwise fashion is a John Player liveried Norton Commando, nice looking machine. An orange Commando with a hefty tank looked the part under a bright May sun. BSA Lightning was a replacement for the sublime Rocket Goldstar, this one looked like a frequent rider polished with an oily rag. Last up Moto Guzzi V7, a 700cc transverse v-twin being the Italian contemporary of all of these other bikes. Lovely!
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