October 12, 2012
Sweeping the Field
A couple of colourful brochure covers from nigh on fifty years ago. One promotes both the the worlds best AND the fastest. The No. 9 racer speeds out of the booklet like the Bonneville’s must have shot out of the showroom floors on any Monday after the Sunday racing. Clean graphics very evocative of the mid sixties. We’re watching the TV series called George Gently which is produced with a super sense of time (1964). And, to boot, based in Northumberland with Geordie accents aplenty.
September 29, 2012
Equality on Wheels
Two, four, six or even sixteen; all road users should see each other equally. Though some more so than others, especially when it comes to two-wheelers!
August 2, 2012
Swinging Sixties
Like bears to honey: they not only sold bike with their velocity performance(race on Sunday; sell on Monday); but also with who you could attract whilst being the Captain of such a machine. By ‘Eck the Sixties looked fun. A photographer captures the sunny scene like David Hemmings character in Antonioni’s Blow-Up.
“it’s a six-fifty luv; fancy a ride?”
August 1, 2012
Mr Haswell & his 3½ HP Triumph
The Olympics are where records are typically broken; well here’s an old distance time trial over One Hundred miles over a Century ago. 1911 was early years in speed and endurance but then as now it sold bikes!
Now if I can just get my Moto to cover this distance without karking it!
July 30, 2012
ATGATT (part two)
Noggins need lookin’ after so what better that a nice bin-lid from those folks at Bell. Oh, and remember to take care of your better half’s tete too!
Triumph Motorcycles endorsed too!
May 9, 2012
A Dead ‘ard Rocker
Looking’ forward to the Saturday event and peering over a number of classic bikes and chatting to their owners. Music and food on offer too.
May 8, 2012
Cafe Events
This summer sees several events for the Chicago Cafe, Mods and Rocker scene. Based through Ace Motorcycle & Scooter down in the City, there are gatherings, evening meets at some pubs and general moto-antics. This coming weekend sees a biker reunion and bike show at Ace; however I don’t think the old Bonnie will be ready for a trip.
May 5, 2012
Cinco de Mayo
Salinas CA: a festival of racing excitement for all at the inaugural TT Pro motorcycle races at the short track oval set up in the Salinas Rodeo, Monterrey Co. From the flyer a car and bike show will be there, centered around plenty of sideways action from guys who know what to do on two wheels. The annual Latino Festival will have music dancing and partying. Wish I was there!
Classic 3 colour screen print poster promotes the event.
March 28, 2012
Don Draper rides…
… A Norton Dominator. So smooth the lunchtime martini won’t spill a drop. In honor of the new series of Mad Men here’s a perfect ad from the late fifties with the slick suit wearing frock flowing denizens of the ‘golden’ post-war years looking on admirably.
Dick Whitman is waiting for the Bonnie about to appear on the scene in ’59…
March 26, 2012
Greater Than…
…the Sum of its Parts. An advert for a late sixties Bonneville; some believe to be the epitome of the T120. Here promoted as the essential components to create this machine. Slice of cherry pie anyone?
February 27, 2012
Here Comes the Sun
Another Geordie (not a Tynesider but a George!); this time George Harrison. Growing up in Liverpool he would go to the local races, here seen atop a Triumph at the Aintree Racetrack in 1955. So he was 12 at the time, just before he discovered the guitar and joining ‘The Quarrymen’…
This may even have been the poster for this particular race meet, Saturday April 30th being in 1955. Beautiful clean graphics with golden text in mid-century font on black background.
It seems ’55 was an important year for Aintree, it was here later that year Stirling Moss won his first Grand Prix driving the powerful Mercedes Benz W196 pipping ‘El Maestro’ Juan Manuel Fangio into 2nd. Exciting Stuff! I’ll bet George Harrison was there too!
January 16, 2012
Black ‘n’ White and Read all over…
After Johnny Allen took his ‘Ceegar’ on that smokin’ run Triumph presented this model. The R1, GSX-R, Ninja of it’s day.
December 22, 2011
The Best
These kids are dressed up as if they’re going for a jaunt along the balmy Riviera and not so much a ride across the South Downs with a brisk damp northerly breeze. I’d take a blighty spin any day but a sun-kissed tour along the Mediterranean aboard a sky blue Thunderbird, khakis, fisherman’s sweater and sandals garb completing the picture, wouldn’t go amiss either!
December 15, 2011
The were chips, chips as big as battleships
…in the quartermaster store (behind the door). Yet ANOTHER “It’s Easy on a Triumph” poster. How many are there? This time some oblivious tar (and his parrot if you look closely!) is heading home on shore leave and tangles in the mooring line thus affecting the berth of his ship.
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