A delightful photograph from past days with a happy couple enjoying a cuppa along some quiet country road. The Triumph ‘Twenty One’ carried them there in competent fashion and a post war bucolic England let’s them relax trouble-free.
July 31, 2020
Apple Green
Tiptoes and knee high socks. Narrow bars turning a pair of lengthened forks backed up with a cushy swept back saddle. Pea colored coffin tank matches the trim jacket. Well, how else are you going to get to your private jet from the executive terminal?b
July 22, 2020
Truckers Cap
– mesh back and adjustable band with padded forehead adorned with logo. Essential summertime sunshine garb.
July 20, 2020
Hippie Ride
– Tonka Motorcycles in British Columbia used this period image for their catalogue of custom parts.
July 14, 2020
Crusin’
Thruxton Tidy
– some dapper cove hoofing along a Miami quayside aboard his cafe’d Triumph.
July 6, 2020
Ride on boyo!
– Welsh singer actor Lee Evans promoting a thirties vibe in sheepskin lined belted leather coat, tall engineer boots, and over the shoulder napsack. The Vincent Comet is a suitable motorcycle prop for the magazine shoot. The vintage backdrop adds a perfect foil.
May 8, 2020
Rusty Ride
Best boot forward on this long legged cycle as it hoofs along a green verged highway under blue skies. Enjoy your weekend folks!
April 24, 2020
LP cover
Hard as nails. These five lasses are stern looking and have gallons of attitude. A couple of nice sixties Bonneville offer an appropriate foil to the image.
April 9, 2020
Pendant
– appropriate after yesterday’s posting, here is a necklace that you can wear to display a fandom of the Happy Days character of cool.
April 6, 2020
Pussy Galore’s Flying Circus
Sadly one of the original action women of the silver screen died today. Honor Blackman who, in my opinion, is the definitive Bond girl. She played opposite Sean Connery in Goldfinger with perfect grace and grit. She started a life on two wheels as a dispatch rider during WW2 in London. She was 94.
April 3, 2020
What’s Johnny rebelling against?
– Marlon Brando has a cheeky grin in this promotional photo of the ‘53 move The Wild One. Weekend at last! MB was born on this day in 1924.
March 24, 2020
Four Score & Ten
– Cool guy Steve McQueen would have been ninety today. he even makes a brown cardigan look hip: the ideal garb for a coffee ‘n’ cream Cooper.
March 13, 2020
On Ilkley Moor
March 12, 2020
Art Deco
– imagery by Italian graphic designer, and latter Olivetti chief designer, Marcelo Nizzoli from 1925 for Fabrique National F/N – Belgian arms manufacturers who also built motorcycles. A smooth ride indeed if the pillion lady can put on her lipstick whilst the shadowy rider tears along the lanes of Flanders
March 6, 2020
Two – Up
Pillion – life is so much more fun with a companion to share the adventure with.
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