July 8, 2016

Queen of the Rockers – with a sharp glint in her eye this biker babe is r-r-r-ready to R-U-M-B-L-E! Tres Instagramme…
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June 26, 2016


A few more images to share highlighting the varied vitality of the Motoblot scene. Choppers, custom engines and saddles, gams on the go and hotrods. Oh, and not to mention motorcycles. Look out for that picnic basket laden Moto Guzzi scooter!

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June 24, 2016

Bob Carlos Clarke born this day in 1950 was a prolific and influential photographer of the latter half of the 20th Century.- here his first wife Sue Frame poses languidly on a high piped big named TRIUMPH.
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June 22, 2016

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.
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June 18, 2016

The Other Triumph – a lingerie manufacturer that has been making intimate apparel since the 1880’s used a nice ribbon-like logo with crowning motif. Our faithful motorcycle makers marque has been using a swooshing leg’d R for decades. A new bra and pantie maker jump on the latters look. Adore Me – complete with swoosh… Trademark infringement?
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June 17, 2016

“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!”
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June 16, 2016

Schools out for summer: get on your scrappy jeans, don a pair of pumps and slip on your shades. T-shirt? Triumph of course!
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June 12, 2016

Girl on a Moto – by Claude Monet. Discovered in a dusty store room behind the artists house at Giverny. Le Thruxton Rouge is the title written on the back…
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June 10, 2016

Mint Julep – bourbon headed beauty zooming across some foothill highway upon a sweet looking Bonnie.

Classic lines with formal elegance, this a machine to enjoy looking at and, I’m sure, riding.
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June 3, 2016

Silly Old Moo – cockney mysogynistical racially bigoted homophobic anti-Semite, anti-Catholic, anti-Irish and West Ham supporter Alf Garnett pilots chair bound long suffering wife Else and pillion perched friend Min in this wartime outfit (BSA M20). Voicing an ugly post war psyche of Britain he ranted against all around him. However Else could cut him down with a curt response or withering glare as he spiraled into a tirade.

Warren Mitchell 1926-2015
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May 20, 2016

Bonnie ‘n’ Ink – sometimes I wish I had smaller hands to reach into the nooks and crannies found on typical motorcycle engineering. This lucky lass has both a nice table elevating maintenance proceedings as well as the deft feminine digits to perform that work. A bike work table is the next thing on my list of projects.
“Hats off Mr Christ.”
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May 14, 2016

Cafe Racer – low clip on bars
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May 6, 2016

Jet lines in a blue sky. Big black Triumph Triple . “The futures so bright I gotta wear shades.”
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April 27, 2016
Perfect Couple: pillion happily hugging the pilot as they zoom along. Nice cafe’d pre-unit looks the part.
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April 21, 2016
19 year old Princess Elizabeth riding slalom on a military 250cc BSA during the Second World War as part of the ATS (Auxilliary Territorial Service). Her main role was maintaining ambulances and ’tilly trucks.
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