Forty Nine Years Ago – red ‘n’ white couple run in spinning imagery towards a crimson tanked Bonneville. I like the composition of this image.
January 18, 2017
Ultimate
January 7, 2017
Hit the Road
It’s a Way of Life – riding motorcycles puts you into a minority. A minority who enjoys the open road with a free wind and adventurous bent. And Triumph riders? They’re the select few who enjoy the Truth of that road: it’s life giving enjoyment, and soul feeding meaning.
(Don’t take me too seriously folks! )
January 4, 2017
Buongiorno trionfo
Psychedelic Rome – true 70’s imagery from the guys in Milan for the twin & triple machines going head-to-head with the Ducati’s and Moto Guzzi’s of the day. A kind of grounded Peter Max look but used effectively on clothing sewing patterns of the early hippie seventies.
January 2, 2017
Hulk
Please don’t make me angry; you won’t like me when I’m angry. The latest iteration of the green behemoth via The Avengers movie sees the diminutive physicist Dr Bruce Banner being played by as bespectacled Mark Ruffalo. His mode of transport? A dusty patina’d Triumph looking like it’s seen plenty of lonely miles. This model kit at sixth scale certainly lost is the part for any comic book fan.
December 30, 2016
金曜日 (Friday)
Tickler – every classic bike owner knows this procedure: petrol tap open; push in the carburetor tickler to enrich the bowls and fuelling; whiff of throttle; then a healthy hoof of the kick-starter. Here’s a gauntlet donned rider of the fairer sex carrying out such a start-up. Nice Photo from a Japanese rocker outfit.
December 23, 2016
A Bridge Too Far
Sixty Eight – a pair of freshly minted Bonneville’s with their owners under the delicately suspended span of the Mount Hope Bridge between Bristol & Portsmouth on Rhode Island across Narragansett Bay. Engineering marvel is a backdrop to a motorcycle marvel. The bridge opened in 1929 a decade or so before Ed Turners development of the parallel twin engined machines that would culminate in the classic 60’s Bonnie’s.
December 17, 2016
Orwellian musings
True Words – “all vehicles are equal but some vehicles are more equal than others” Napoleon
December 13, 2016
List
Winter Projects – as the warm weather recedes into a distant memory now is the time to figure out the tasks to undertake on the bikes. Still some sorting of the Cub; cables, wiring, a timing cover seal, a little more carb fettling. The the Bonnie is getting a new front sprocket; two teeth up for a little more top speed, then fresh clutch plates for bite… some oil line work…. it never ends keeping these running!
December 3, 2016
Going Straight
Desert Dust – actor Forrest Whitaker romps around the Southwest in his film Two Men in Town, an ‘ex con trying to make good’ thriller from 2013 also starring the indefatigable Harvey Keitel. This is a late model T100 given a ‘Hollywood’ treatment to appear with a well travelled patina for the US Mexico border locale.
November 21, 2016
Rover
Dog Rider – this is Douglas and his owner Andrew Ditton. They live the simple life in an Airstream trailer. They get around on a silver Triumph Bonneville. Not bad.
November 20, 2016
Paul Newman
Dragline: “He was smiling…That’s right. You know, that, that Luke smile of his. He had it on his face right to the very end. Hell, if they didn’t know it ‘fore, they could tell right then that they weren’t a-gonna beat him. That old Luke smile. Old Luke, he was some boy. Cool Hand Luke. Hell, he’s a natural-born world-shaker.”
November 17, 2016
The Purr-fect Ride
Du-Cat-i Poise, balance, independence, soft, sharp-claw’d. Felines would ride motorcycles if they could. Whether Italian or British…
November 9, 2016
Mail Order
Stamp – we need to mail ourselves out of this potential mess. An unknown future lays ahead which could set the world into un chartered territory.
November 5, 2016
Everett Road
Before the Clocks go back – Super November 5th weather and a cracking ride out to McHenry County. Nice roads up there with long curves bounded by the coloring trees. The new upright bars are a treat to ride with; good neutral feel with less back strain.
November 3, 2016
Steerage
High Bar – the Bonnie has new ‘andles. I’ve installed braced enduro bars giving an upright, yet still forward, stance. Some fanagling of controls was needed, and I’ll have to lose the tachometer. Heck: we’re getting it set up like Daryl Dixons moto!
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