I was moving up and down the aisles of a large parking lot today and saw this sweet Kawasaki. Super clean GPZ900 in red ‘n’ black. 7k on the clocks and all original. This is the original Superbike. I had one for several years in the oughts.
July 24, 2025
DubbyaDubbyaEeeh!
Hulk Hogan, 80’s icon with his trademark blond handlebar mustache, bandana and custom Harley Davidson, passed away today. Here’s a toy motorcycle with ridin’ rastlin’ star. RIP Terry Gene Bollea 1953-2025
April 3, 2025
Be my Huckleberry
80’s and 90’s actor Val Kilmer passed away a couple of days ago at the age of 65. Several notable roles in many successful movies. Ice Man in Top Gun, Doc Holliday in Tombstone to name a couple. His Jim Morrison in The Doors was memorable. I met him in New Mexico many years ago and he recognized my Geordie accent due to some time filming The Saint in Newcastle.
July 28, 2024
Fine threading
Donald Sutherland plays a nazi agent in this 1981 film The Eye of the Needle. Knowing plans about D-Day he needs to report back to Berlin with a U-Boat meet-up off Scotland. Ending up on a remote “Storm Island” he takes up with a woman who is emotionally estranged from her husband who lost his legs in an automobile accident on their wedding day just as he was about to head off as a Spitfire pilot. As our protagonist is being pursued by Scotland Yard he commandeers a Velocette motorcycle to hare through the glens of Scotland. He ditches it in the sea after just crossing the Connel Bridge which crosses Loch Etive. The film was directed by Richard Marquand who went on to direct Return of the Jedi for George Lucas.
November 11, 2023
Express cartoon
I love the work of Carl Giles, simply known as “Giles”. He added topical visual fun to the Daily and Sunday Express from 1943 to ‘89-‘91. His annual collections were a regular Christmas present for my father. Though left leaning in politics he said he earned a good income from the right wing Express. As well as the contents of my weekly comic 2000ad, I also drew the scenes and characters in his strips.
May 24, 2023
We don’t need another hero
What a voice and charismatic presence the indefatigable Ms Turner had. Stretching from the 50’s into the 21st Century her impact in the music industry was colossal. She was also a motorcycle rider. A favorite bike being an Electra Glide HD. Though here is a younger gal with a sixties BSA.
Tina Turner RIP (1939-2023)
January 18, 2023
The Days are just Packed
Between 1985 and 1995 cartoonist Bill Watterson created the wonderful duo of a mischievous six year boy and his imaginary feline companion. The newspaper strip was awaited for each day – especially when he was looking forward to his beanie hat. Here is someone’s reiteration of the pair haring down a hillside upon a motorcycle.
July 25, 2022
Bumblebee
A pair of Beemer adventure bikes were parked next to my car. always like the black and yellow color scheme that is reminiscent of the original air cooler R90 GS from the late eighties.
July 17, 2022
Bark at the Sky
– an adept 400 twin from the Honda stable mid 80’s. This was spied in my ‘hood Rogers Park.
June 26, 2022
His ‘n’ Hers
– I managed to snap a shot of a pair of bikers hauling up Ashland Avenue. Honda Helix superscooter and Suzuki GS1000.
March 12, 2022
Turtley Awesome
– The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles we’re a phenom in the late 80’s. Named after renaissance artists, Michelangelo , Donatello, Raphael and Leonardo, they came from the sewers of New York City to fight crime. Surfer jargon was essential too.
February 21, 2022
Look skyward!
Blurb from the back of the VHS box: “After a rare comet sighting, teen sisters Regina (Catherine Mary Stewart) and Samantha (Kelli Maroney) find that they’re among the only survivors of a zombie attack. The girls partner with another survivor, Hector (Robert Beltran), but as they try to avoid the zombies, they’re sought by scientists who want to experiment on their bodies in the hope of finding an antidote. Dodging both the doctors and the undead, they keep moving in the hope that they can continue to stay alive.” A Triumph motorcycle is the vehicle of choice for the protagonists.
August 24, 2021
A Bit of Fry…
– Stephen Fry celebrates his 64th birthday today. Along with Hugh Laurie, he was one half of the celebrated duo of mirth.
August 21, 2021
Remake
– afternoon TV was airing this 1988 revisit of a classic ‘58 Steve McQueen horror. Kevin Dillon is the high school teen protagonist who tears around the town on his vintage Triumph.
June 21, 2021
Narcos
Medellin Cartel
– we’re currently watching Narcos, about drug lord Pablo Escobar, who, at the height of his infamy, was bringing in $70 million a day from cocaine smuggled to the US. the image is a still from rare footage of him on a Yamaha dirt bike as he rode around his Hacienda homestead.
geordiebiker.com 