February 2, 2015
Progressive Insurance have a strong ongoing advertisement with their character Flo. Since 2008. She assures insurance premiums are competitive with other companies. Here are a couple of frames from a particular TV spot where motorcycle insurance is promoted. She pulls up to a stop sign next to a Ducati.
Her moto is a pearly white Triumph Daytona. Which matches her usual white outfit.
The quirky, chipper sales clerk, typically seen wearing a white apron and blue Chuck Taylor’s, is portrayed by comedienne Stephanie Courtney.
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January 27, 2015
Watching an older episode of the Yorkshire police show Dalziel & Pascoe one of the characters, who also works down what must be one of the last pits, rides a late 90’s Triumph T595 Daytona. He’s a main suspect so being a stereotypical rowdy biker maintains suspense.
He wheelies along colliery row houses and near allotment gardens.
Grumpy Dalziel (PR. Dall eel ) is played by the late Warren Clark. Starting his career as Dim in A Clockwork Orange.
“There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie, and Dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar trying to make up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening. The Korova milkbar sold milk-plus, milk plus vellocet or synthemesc or drencrom, which is what we were drinking. This would sharpen you up and make you ready for a bit of the old ultra-violence.”
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December 19, 2014
Sixties Canadian TV show with biker gang member toting around on a Triumph Cub…. Must be an initiation thing!
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December 17, 2014
The Simpsons first aired on this day 25 years ago. Homer is still none the wiser. Woo!
“If something’s hard to do, then it’s not worth doing”
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October 9, 2014
Distinguished Gentlemans Chicago 2014:
http://youtu.be/wWzZq_8tQGY
A YouTube video of the recent DGR with a couple of action shots of GeordieBiker rorting by…
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August 21, 2014
THIS is why I ride Triumph. As Stuart Smalley would coin: “I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and doggone it, people like me!”
“…and that’s….. Okay!”
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August 11, 2014
He could make you laugh so hard you’d cry; he could make you cry hard too. From off-planet Mork, to on-air hell-raisin Vietnam DJ Cronauer , influential teacher Keating at a stiff prep school in Dead Poets Society, a dogged doctor in Awakenings; his ragged professor of Good Will Hunting a true zenith of roles. And more. Stand-up to the heights of a frenetic manic colossus. He rode and collected bicycles too.
“O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done,
The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won,
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring;
But O heart! heart! heart!
O the bleeding drops of red,
Where on the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead…”
Walt Whitman
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June 23, 2014
Tea goes hand in hand with motorcycling. Perfect for quenching a thirst after a good ride. Here’s Steve enjoying a cuppa whilst filming a tunneling scene in the Great Escape. Niele looks on.
Our man Martin is a big tea drinker. Famous for having a waam mug o’ chai always handy. Overalls and V12 Vantage Aston Martin seal the deal for enjoying the good things in life.
Of course cafe (PR. caff) racers hare between the edge of town ‘greasy spoons’ and the mobile transport cafes spaced along the A roads of England. Here’s a perfect one complete with outdoor seating and fluttering flags.
It’s not their outward appearance that draws the clientele. As long as the brew is warm and wet, the food freshly cooked, then you’re set!
“The Greezies”: egg, sausage, bacon, beans, mushrooms, black pudd’n; and a slice (white bread with marg). All washed down with a tea! Perfect! Back on the road to head home…
Classic period shot of a Triumph Cub rider at The Sunset.
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June 11, 2014
We’ve had him here before but as today is his 55th birthday we can celebrate with a dour pose cheered up by his beloved Bonneville.
Best know I believe for his role as George in Blackadder 3; amongst many others! He’s not just an ornery Doctor!
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May 14, 2014
George Lucas is 70 today: I could gave imaged Endor moon speeder bikes; hot rods along Main Street graffiti style, or Indiana Jones and his pappy a la combination; but instead I found this snowy scene in Norway of Carrie Fisher napping between takes during the filming of The Empire Strikes Back. Skidoo chaise whilst the tauntauns graze… It’s my favorite of The saga in terms of story and acting.
May the Force be with you!
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April 22, 2014
Classic line in a classic British film from 1969. Caine is marvelous as Charlie Croker the gold bullion theft ring-leader. The car chase is in the top 3 of chases (Bullitt, The Blues Brothers?). The alpine and Turin scenery sublime.
It was on the telly last evening in unedited wide screen format. Fabulous! It just so happens the scene where they blew more than the bloody doors off was filmed in Crystal Palace Park in south London. I first learned to ride a motorcycle in that park back in 1996. A Suzuki 125.
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April 6, 2014
Oft-time biker and Scot James McAvoy enjoys motos like the best of us passing his bike test before a car one. He’s looking somewhat surly with this new Bonnie. James was in Atonement with Keira Knightley who we also know from That Coco Chanel advert for their Madamoiselle parfum, in a skin color, snug race suit aboard a matching Ducati 750…
Those Italian motorcycles can certainly look good on the right company…
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March 24, 2014
Our Steve McQueen would have been 84 today.
The Cooler King!
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March 15, 2014
“Et tu Brute?” In ’53 when The Wild One was upsetting parents about the trouble the disenfranchised post-war youth could get up to Brando played another disgruntled character from literature. It was of course Mark Anthony from Bill Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar.
Well it is the Ides if March! As Johnny said: “Whaddya got?”
“…lend me your ears!”
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March 13, 2014
My handy dandy little dial indicator came today. An older but fully functional item allowing measuring tolerances down to a thou. I’m using it to tweak the final wheel truing. Works a treat!
Also… Watching Quadrophenia whilst doing my taxes. Crackin’!
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