January 7, 2014
This small cast metal toy motorcycle has a clunky charm to it that would surely fill any youngsters imagination with two wheeled deeds of daring-do. Indeed it has a striking resemblance to the noted stunt team of the Royal Signal Corps.
Here’s a First Day Cover type commemorative posting of a Royal Mail stamp with the classic Triumph and uniformed white helmet rider tearing across the mailing in fine style. This actual mailing was even more special using Forces mail to an Earls Court Cycle exhibition in 1980. Charming stuff…
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January 2, 2014
A braw Scot’s based advert proclaiming the virtues of another mode of transport in the garage… Thus could be revisited for today! Perhaps it could say: ” make your first car a motorcycle!”
Again, good clean graphics of a cartoon nature. Two-color printing used to great effect from the kilts tartan, swooshing scarf, and the red “2”.
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December 30, 2013
A simple orange window’d backdrop sets off this Tiger well. The slogan is to the point too! Speed and efficiency in a Triumphant package; letting the akimbo’d rider visit the sights of Britain.
In a similar vein this blue advert scheme gives the rider and his Thunderbird something to ponder on: Exciting is the key word here! Those integrated lines look so slick even today.
The green green grass of home lets us view a smashing ride from the pilots eye view if a crisp airbrushed photo of the 350. De Luxe? Delightful!
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December 28, 2013
The early break-away arm of Triumph that developed in Germany had a few smaller machines just right for the continental two-wheeled lifestyle.
It looks like Cupid’s arrow will shoot an arrow into any speedsters heart here. Crisp pen and ink graphics with speed lines, spinning wheels and a determined rider. On a lighter note: all can enjoy the range if mooed, combination or roadster and have fun at the sane time.
These engines use a split barreled single two-stroke engine. Utilizing a single combustion chamber and two pistons. The company TWR or Triumph-Werke Nürnberg AG produced these models such as the 200cc Cornet and 350cc Boss from the thirties thought to the fifties when the company was swallowed by Grundig, a typewriter manufacturer… (Now yesterday’s Cub Reporter seems apt!)
Here’s a very Teutonic machine ready for serious typing.
Still lovely graphics though on latter advertising in the sixties…
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December 23, 2013
The sky blue background and vibrant orange pinstripe is always a great choice for giving your ride a historically significant color scheme. Making it a Triumph Bonneville is even better.
This owner has also created a matching lid too. Smashing!
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December 20, 2013
An olive green tee complete with winning combination of a splendid latter day Bonneville and silver cup waving ‘fille belle’.
Trophy Girls: it’s nearly like warbird nose art…
Now that would make a good T-shirt; or even better tank art.
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December 13, 2013
I’ve been revisiting the movies of French filmmaker Jaques Tati. His inventive visual comedic pieces all hold revered places in the doyens of cinematography. The last one he made was Traffic; where our intrepid pip’d protagonist Monsieur Hulot take a camping car to a car show in Amsterdam.
The posters are very evocative of the film style of the period.
His perched stance with exposed stripey socks, hat, brolly and the aforementioned pipe is classic.
One scene saw a young dutch lad roar up to his parents house on a super clean Triumph.
Hulot is trying to fix the ivy on the house by climbing up it and ending trapped upside down whilst our young bloke Paul makes a leery pass at Marie another traveler on the road trip.
The dutch fella looks kind of like a creepy Van Gogh close up; and Marie thinks likewise…
Hulot is seen behind hanging quietly. His only disturbance to the stymied scene is the occasional ‘franc ou clé’ from his pockets…
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December 12, 2013
An old airbrushed promo shot of a Tiger Cub looking light and speedy with a streamlined form akin to its big brother 650 twin Bonneville. Black and silver with the grey-blue background look timeless fifties.
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November 24, 2013
On this day in 1859 the first major publication defining evolutionary biology was introduced to the public. It was met with some derision with many theologically based opponents not likingj the idea we had evolved from some tree swinging simian. Charles Darwin was the author using scientifically acquired data from his HMS Beagle trip around the globe.
Well, we aren’t evolved from chimps… The apes, monkeys and homo sapiens are all evolved from a common mammal; way, way back in the past. The timescale is inconceivable by reply most: millions of years – that’s thousands of TIMES longer than the few thousand years of recorded history. Motorcycles? Well all current motos can hark back to the simple Daimler engine on a velocipede. Some heading along an lkkroute of cruiser fee twins, others sharply defined sports bikes. Yet more well set up for the long road or simple for city commuting. But a modern high performance Triumph Daytona isn’t ‘evolved’ from a twentieth century 2013 Harley Davidson Road King..
Oddly enough one of the newer motors in a Harley is called an Evolution… Still half a century behind modern bikes Evolution. That’s practically thousands of millennia in evolutionary terms!
Happy Evolution Day.
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November 5, 2013
“Remember, remember the fifth of November of gunpowder treason and plot. I know of no reason why the gun powder treason should ever be forgot.”
V is roman numeral five. Morse code is …- which is actually the opening notes of Beethoven’s Fifth. Also the sublime Alan Moore graphic novel about a dystopian future Britain under a totalitarian government. The antagonist is V the masked revolutionist who rebels against the fascists not as an individual but an idea.
“People shouldn’t be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.”
The mask is a grinning image of Guy Fawkes. Who’s failed conspiracy is celebrated on the fifth of November. It is now the face of Anonymous the global internet based group of hacktivists.
Motorcycles? Nah! They didn’t have them in 1605…
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October 15, 2013
…motorcycles!
A graphic going around shows this classic diamond warning to car drivers… However the original has a naff bike without rider. I updated it to give it life.
A cafe’d Matchless CSR twin under speed with determined rider was necessary.
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October 14, 2013
The Triumph moto of the day was a 500cc single with three speed belt drive 3 1/2 HP and simple bicycle based frame geometry.
TT for Tourist Trophy as well as Trusty Triumph…
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September 24, 2013
Honda
BSA
Cagiva
Ducati’s
Peugeot or Daimler
F.B. Mondial
Moto Guzzi
Hodaka ?
Indian
Jaws
Kawasaki
Laverda
Matchless
Norton
Ossa
Parilla
Husqvarna
Royal Enfield
Suzuki
Triumph
Ural
Velocette
BMW
X
Yamaha
Zundapp
Poster available here:
iron lung vintage typography poster
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September 20, 2013
Comic art is one of my favorites: especially garish but graphic 70’s work. Here’s a Marvel offering much in the light of the material I grew up with such as 2000ad and Action. – Silver Jubilee celebration! Classic!
I love the rider heading towards you out of the page in true Stan Lee exaggerated dynamic fashion. You see this format elsewhere…
My favorite of all is the Judge Dress cover by Mike McMahon of a Lawmaster riding JD heading into the Cursed Earth… Drokk!
Pen and Ink wizard Brian Bolland used this perspective to good use back then also.
As Tharg would say: Zarjaz!
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