Here’s the return image of last weeks gal Friday. A-pillion with German friend at a Tridays event in Glemseck. Cafe racers gather to zoom a short 1/8 mile run, sup lager and talk motorrad.
April 18, 2016
Sailing east, sailing west…
April 15, 2016
Blue Friday
Sun and Seventies forecast for the weekend so the first ride of the year is planned. This gal is tearing out at speed to the coming Saturday…
April 11, 2016
Monday Rock!
Get yer leathers on, quiff your pompadour, spanner at the ready to nip-up loose bolts, a rag to mop the winter oil pool, and a fresh tank of petrol then spring roads await!
Quiff your hair
April 8, 2016
Headstand Trials
Balance- trials champion, stunt rider, motorcycle hall of fame inductee. Debbie Evans rode as she learned to walk has impeccable two-wheel control. As well as the fine technical abilities of a trials competitor she could handle fast bikes as a Hollywood stuntwoman making the movie Moto heroines appear superhuman.
She can defy gravity with ballet-like poise.
Triumph TT tank stand at speed. Control!
Triumph Tiger through fire. Blazing effort!
True ambassador to the sport!
March 20, 2016
A Short Life of Trouble
“First of all, Michael is very quiet, but he’s a visual man. And he and I would look at the same thing. We wouldn’t even have to talk to each other, just look. Incredible pleasure would build up. Secondly, we camped and so we were outdoors all the time. Riding across the country on a motorcycle in ’61-’62 is a great adventure. Cops would pull up to us, and they’d say, “Hey, where are you going? What can we do for you?” People gave us food. People told us stories.” Marcia Tucker
Here’s a timeless image of a young adventure prone gal in the early sixties raveling the country as an impoverished art student. The bike is a BSA A10. She went on to become a renowned art critic & historian, curator, and of course motorcyclist.
Her Biography.
March 11, 2016
Sidesaddle Sally
Weekend here again! Let’s hope that some improved weather allows the wheels to roll underneath. A bobber dirt tracker through the woods or dunes would be just fine thank you very much…
March 8, 2016
#pledgeforparity
March 8th is International Women’s Day, and what no better way to celebrate it on GeordieBiker than to have a 3×3 grid of Triumph totin’ gals. Stemming from early 20th C socialist ideals it was a big highlighting of working women’s rights as well as voting rights in the suffrage movement. One century on and we’re still discussing equality in wages.
February 28, 2016
Academy Awards
And the Oscar goes to… Triumph!
The British bike has been used in numerous films over the ages from the fifties, sixties and eighties: Marlon Brando in The Wild One, Steve McQueen in The Great Escape, to Richard Gere in An Officer and a Gentleman. Latter day films include Carrie Ann Moss as Trinity (appropriately riding a Speed Triple) in The Matrix, Glen Hansard in Once, and last years Jurassic World with Chris Pratt roughing it on a Scrambler.
February 26, 2016
Nose Art
Thinking of clear spring days for those early season rides. Just need a glamour gal sitting on a bomb to complete the scene.
Photography by Derek Queensberry
February 14, 2016
Love is…
Hope y’all have that someone special to enjoy the rigors along the road of life with.
February 12, 2016
Wax Lyrical
Barbour jackets are de rigeur in the damp climate of England. Whether with a Purdey double barrel over your arm, a pair of Red Setters sniffing out a hedgerow or, like this lass here, taking a classic British twin for a gallop along the country lane. Waxed cotton to ward off bramble, stone and drizzle, ample pockets to tuck a hip flask and silk scarf in, and wool liner to keep the damp chill at bay.
February 5, 2016
Chanteuse
The epitome of frenchness in looks and sound is the sixties singer Françoise Hardy. She can wear a badged leather jacket like its a runway item or Brighton pier garb.
Perfect riding shot of M. Hardy and fellow musician George Moustaki zoom through the forests of Fontainebleau.
This classic shot of her looking back from the superbike saddle of the Honda CB750 has been copied numerous times- but hers is the best.
January 29, 2016
Happy Days
Leather Tuscadero played by Suzi Quatro, was the younger punk sister of Fonzies on again off again gal Punkie. Suzi was also a pioneering woman rocker in the seventies helped with her growling vocals, big bass slapping and one piece race leather outfits. In her mid sixties she’s still belting out her hits.
Can the Can? You be she can!
January 22, 2016
Crafty Commando
Philanthropist Aileen Webb (1892-1979) was instrumental in promoting crafts, handmade goods and the arts. Brought up in the Hudson Valley and married into the Vanderbilt family her influence helped create the American Craft Council and later on the World Craft Council. The latter being formed in 1964 to: “promote fellowship, foster economic development through income generating craft related activities, organize exchange programs, workshops, conferences, seminars, and exhibitions—and in general, to offer encouragement, help, and advice to the craftspersons of the world.”
I like Texas the red hat echoes the Norton emblazoned tank.
January 2, 2016
WooHoo
Bonneville wave: a cute couple speeding along into the sixties on their travel ready Triumph. Sunny days ahead for the decade of the space-race, free love and the burgeoning optimism expected under the young JFK.
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