Poseidon’s Pitchfork – or The Trident. A triple lunged lout from the seventies. It saw good form on the track both in Meriden and Small Heath BSA trim; look up Slippery Sam. Aearly superbike so to speak. This example is for sale locally, the owner asking $4,500. I’d like to give one of these a go.
August 31, 2016
Three Rings for the Elven Kings under the Sky
August 24, 2016
Saddle Up!
Hump Day – advert from seventies chopper magazine. When you need a break lush ride for yourself and the pillion then look no further than Chi-Town Products. 64 colors!
August 23, 2016
Lake Shore Drive
LSD – There’s a road I’d like to tell you about, lives in my home town
Lake Shore Drive the road is called and it’ll take you up or down
From rags on up to riches fifteen minutes you can fly
Pretty blue lights along the way, help you right on by
And the blue lights shining with a heavenly grace, help you right on by
And there ain’t no road just like it
Anywhere I found
Running south on Lake Shore Drive heading into town
Just slippin’ on by on LSD, Friday night trouble bound
And it starts up north from Hollywood, water on the driving side
Concrete mountains rearing up, throwing shadows just about five
Sometimes you can smell the green if your mind is feeling fine
There ain’t no finer place to be, than running Lake Shore Drive
And there’s no peace of mind, or place you see, than riding on Lake Shore Drive
And there ain’t no road just like it
Anywhere I found
Running south on Lake Shore drive heading into town
Just slicking on by on LSD, Friday night trouble bound
And it’s Friday night and you’re looking clean
Too early to start the rounds
A ten minute ride from the Gold Coast back make sure you’re pleasure bound
And it’s four o’clock in the morning and all of the people have gone away
Just you and your mind and Lake Shore Drive, tomorrow is another day
And the sunshine’s fine in the morning time, tomorrow is another day
And there ain’t no road just like it
Anywhere I found
Running south on Lake Shore drive heading into town
Just snaking on by on LSD, Friday night trouble bound.
Aliotta Haynes Jeremiah 1971
August 19, 2016
6 of 6
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 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.
