The model is for all intents and purposes complete. Spent the afternoon adding oily and muddy patina to the bike. Looking like it’s just been ridden from the Normandy beaches to the Ardenne.
May 24, 2020
Blue Sky
Marvelous day on the road today. 250 miles on a route around the bottom of the Lake into Michigan on lanes lined with trees leafing out. Lilac fragrance wafted from farm hedges laden with bloom and rolling fields being watched over by soaring hawks. This old barn was seen in the small town of Eau Claire MI.
May 22, 2020
Scaled Down
The 1/9th scale Triumph Kit is coming along a treat.
May 21, 2020
Put that in yer pipe
Not tobacco my friend; but a fine desert sled with a pair of rumbling exhaust pipes sat like an organs middle C. Pull all the stops out and hear it roar! ‘72 Triumph TR6
May 17, 2020
Assembly Required
– here’s something that will keep me out of trouble for a few rainy afternoons. A 1/9 scale WW2 era Triumph 3HW. The ubiquitous single cylinder workhorse of the British forces. Indeed it is the motorcycle used by my grandfather George in his duties as a Military Policeman in the North African theatre.
May 15, 2020
Weathering
My new project arrived in the mail today. A plastic model kit of a 1943 wartime Triumph. After assembly I’ll need to decide if it’ll be in a clean fresh from the factory look or well ridden appearance.
May 5, 2020
Scaled Down
Well detailed model Triumph bobber. Propped next to a fifty five gallon oil drum.
May 1, 2020
What, what, why..
Brains and Beauty: that could only be actress, inventor and film producer Hedy Lamarr. Here’s a publicity shot for Samson & Delilah with a photoshopped Triumph chopper. Somehow it actually looks the part. Now let’s discuss her paper on Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum and its use to prevent jamming of guided torpedoes…
April 30, 2020
Africa or Bust…
A pair of intrepid adventurers with their Triumph combination somewhere in Alkebulan (Mother of Mankind) during a 1932 trip across the continent. It’s Frank Flood and Jim C. Wilson who rode from the Nigerian cost to The Red Sea. The original dual sport travelers. Short sleeves and pith helmets.
April 29, 2020
Wheelie Good
– A beast roaming the pasture. Someone took a Triumph T509 and gave it a serious agricultural make-over. More of a bull-bike than a rat-bike!
April 28, 2020
Long Way Down
… back in the fifties Mr G G Evans rode his Triumph Thunderbird through Europe and on through North Africa, along the Suez and down into South Africa. I wonder if this journey was inspiration for Ted Simon fifteen years later as Jupiter?
April 26, 2020
St Mary’s Road
We managed a nice 100 mile jaunt up through a quiet Lake County this afternoon. Temperatures touching 60 and deciduous foliage staring to emerge. Getting a better hand of the helmet camera. Will post a video later this week after editing…
April 22, 2020
Pinup
Today is the birthday of iconic 50’s centerfold Bettie Mae Page (1923-2008)
April 19, 2020
Stargazing
On a bluff overlooking Lake Geneva sits the 1893 building that houses the largest refracting telescope, a 40” light capturing behemoth. It is currently closed to the public right now but I always like to stop by whenever I ride the loop around this lake.
