Car Shopping – we need to replace Gertie with a new vehicle. Easier said than done! Trying to tick all the boxes of desirable qualities for our transport for an anticipated decade of use… These old Triumphs look fun, but each is quite specialized. Sporty, practical, small, fun…
November 16, 2016
Car Story
October 26, 2016
Marlon Shakespeare
Vote Ch🙂pper – Extended Forks? Check! Ape Hangers? Check! Sissy Bar? Check! Stars ‘n’ Stipes Peanut Gas Tank? Check! Cool Dude who looks like Warren Beaty? Check.
We’re voting for a new president in a fortnight. It’ll be my first chance to have my day as such now being a US citizen. This British moto in American livery and style is what I’ll feel like at the voting booth.
September 27, 2016
Let’s Roll!
Crowds Garherng – a buffet breakfast was laid on by the folks at the Cobra Lounge. Bacon, sausage, eggs, pancakes and fruit. Fresh coffee from an oft topped up urn washed it down.
I was putts my mom n the air of some Goodwood Festival mechanic type. Just needed a Morgan to work on in oily fashion. “Pass the Whitworth 3/8th spanner mate!”
September 20, 2016
Beemer in the City
Goose Island – I spied this nicely set-up BMW 75/5 in the City this evening. Black on black. The Teutonic lines of the bicep cylinder’d motor look mean under the streetlight.
July 28, 2016
Alfred E. Neuman
Mad? You must be to work here. The cartoonist, illustrator and fine charicaturist Jack Davis passed away yesterday. He was one of the founders of Mad Magazine and helped create the zany look of the film and TV show spoofs. Easy Rider didn’t escape…
What, me Worry?
July 28, 2016
Put that in yer pipe and smoke it!
High Pipes – I dig the routing of the exhaust on the sublime Triumph Trophy.
July 15, 2016
The Great British Baking Show
Cake – the current season of the baking show which features ordinary folk test their cooking skills under a white tent in an English manor houses garden. Mary Berry the octogenarian judge has a sweet disposition that mirrors the delicious offerings conjured up rack week. No, she doesn’t zoom around on a Ducati superbike! That’s the other judge Paul Hollywoods ride. Keen gear head and rider he’s just taken possession of a ‘silly-fast’ Kawasaki H2. 200hp on the road, track version 300hp.
Gas Mark 7 for 30 minutes and you’ll be well and truly baked!
July 13, 2016
Clearing a Cough
Gertie the GTI was blowing an exhaust connection so I had a back alley shop lift her up and weld a new sleeve on. Her tune is bright and clear now.
July 10, 2016
Stop Motion
Triptych – sequence of movement: one, two, three. Fun with overlays and composition to evoke a sense of speed along the road.
July 6, 2016
Diorama #2
The model maker is Anders Malmberg from Sweden and I am astounded by the level of 1:35 detail. Everything has a patina, it looks like it’s been worked in for years by the same elf mechanic. Paint spills, old tubs on shelves,
There is even a junkyard out back… Pinup gal on the wall… It keeps going!
June 25, 2016
Rockers Reunion
Motoblot – a hot, hot, hot day in the City. Winding through slow weekend traffic for an hour to attend the rockers biker gathering. Music, pinup gals, local beer, hot rods, and bikes; hunnerts of bikes. No two alike, each individual. Love it! Rode home along Lake Street (under the long straight el tracks, a la French Connection) along Wacker Drive, padded along Michigan Avenue then a zoom north up Lake Shore Drive.
June 24, 2016
F8 @ 1/250s
Bob Carlos Clarke born this day in 1950 was a prolific and influential photographer of the latter half of the 20th Century.- here his first wife Sue Frame poses languidly on a high piped big named TRIUMPH.
June 23, 2016
Hear Me Roar!
The Tiger Cub gave its first yowl tonight! Engine back in, oil lines and ignition reinstalled, exhaust pipe plumbed. A few hicks with ground but once that was disconnected an easy hoof on the kickstart and a healthy bark. A bit a coughing and spluttering. But hey! “It’s Alive!”
June 22, 2016
Highway Song
Boots made for Riding – record producer Mickie Most takes singer Nancy Sinatra on his BSA Shooting Star. Aptly named single the registration on the number plate signifies a’69 or ’70 model. She was in London to record The Highway Song.
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