¡Muy Buena! A shop spied by a work colleague, Emily, whilst on her honeymoon in Barcelona. With Sumptuous Gaudi architecture all around she managed to spot this Moto-store sign. A Triumph! I went to their website and was swooned by a new Kawasaki 800 sports bike in that special green. Www.qualitybike.com
Utrecht, The Netherlands: spied in an windswept shopping center on the fringes of that beautiful dutch city this ‘ute looks like it would tote all your wares, tools, kids whatever around town. This practical two-stroke truck just needs a boiler suited rider ready to get on with their job at hand.
It’s like a cross between a Ford F150 and a Can Am Spyder…
The Netherlands: known for windmills, tulips, flatness and of course bicycles. A few days in Amsterdam one had to be wary of other roadway and path users, be they trams, cars, bikes or stoned visitors…
The ubiquitous dutch cyclist rides a plain black ‘sit-up-and-beg’ bike, usually slowed by a back-pedal brake. A healthy and efficient way to get about. Especially when the only hill is the occasional bump over a canal!
Utrecht is a beautiful city perched along a picturesque canal. A bicycle is a good speed to dawdle around here at the speed of the water easing through this idyllic setting.
It was here that we saw a unique bike that would be sure to turn heads: a wooden framed item, complete with finely sanded frame, adjustable seat height and wooden mudguards. Velo du bois!
Red Rocket…… The Triumph Sprint is a bike built on the 955cc sports triple motor but with a wee slant on comfort. Pack yer bags and take to the open road, whether blasting the ‘superslab’ or high-speed curvy lanes. Pop off the bags and take to the twisties; let the country airs flow through your cardinal feathers.
$3,200 on Craigslist today!
BMW’s are known for their mile munching machines; none more so than the big GS Gelände Straße, the ubiquitous moto for the discerning passport filler. It carries rider and load; can roll over roughroads where potholes are the norm; and is a tough as old boots. With genes derived from the early bikes forged in the early Paris Dakar races it is a true companion for the miles. Sheepskin rugéd perch hints at this examples journeys. Again a Rockerbox meet moto.
“Royal is my Race” so proclaims the Clan McGregor’s motto! Here clansman Ewan races his latter-day Triumph Bonneville along damp lanes and across the odd burn. Lookin’ like he’s set up for a trip what with the leather pannier satchels and a big duffel. Roper gloves, denim, and a worn leather jacket round off this road ready look. A Davida open-face with what look like Naninni goggles.
Trying a spot of fly fishing brother? River crossing made to look easy: careful with that throttle! However he’s an old hand at this having made countless arduous such crossings when travelling through Asia in his and Charley Boorman’s epic adventure Long Way Round.
Rob Roy wid hae been Proud laddie!
And here’s the advert for the aftershave…
A couple from Hollywood CA, Mr & Mrs Nelson, wished to take an adventurous tour of Europe, so they arrived in the UK in the summer of ’52. After taking both delivery and instruction of a beautiful Thunderbird and Swallow sidecar from the Meriden factory they set of on a three month exploration. I bet that photo album is work looking through!
Here’s where a certain Norton motorcycle changed world affairs; in 1952 a young medical student Ernesto Guevara and his friend Alberto Granado travelled the length of South America witnessing the poverty, exploitation, and economoc extremes that changed the course of his life indefinitely. Their steed, a 1939 500cc model was named El Poderosa “The Mighty One”,
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