At the Triumph new model launch this evening under a snow bleaching sky I saw the outstanding design detail that has gone into these machines. The Thruxton R was truly sublime. I want one! It fits me perfectly with exactly the same riding geometry as my ’72 Bonneville.
November 20, 2015
A Trump Card has been played
November 19, 2015
The Motorcycle Affair (a two-wheeled espionage caper)
The latest redux is the classic spy duo Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin. Starring John Cavell and Arme Hammer in the respective roles. It looks like a Triumph is used to good effect by one of the protagonist’s. It turns out to be a beautifully made Metisse.
The Grey bodywork and chrome frame along with knobby tires are perfect. High and wide dirt bike bars with high exhaust pipes top it off.
United Network Command for Law and Enforcement aka U.N.C.L.E. was one of my favorite shows growing up.
McCallum and Vaughn were perfect in their roles.
November 18, 2015
Under the Sun
McQueens production company which backed films such as Les Mans as well as the documentary On Any Sunday. Clean graphic.
#66 was his Porsche 908/2 number he used on the disused airfield track in Holtville CA.
November 17, 2015
Hit the road Steve!
This bottle green Chevy truck with a custom aluminum camper sitting in its long bed was once owned by Steve McQueen. Towards the end of his life he used it to go cross country and see the USA from the road.
Purchased from a migrant farmer the 1952 V6 engined 3800 was purchased from a migrant farmer from the side of the road.
Big mattress, plenty of storage and a tent-like inner ceiling it would be the perfect thing to scour the back roads and lost towns of the continent. The camper unit is called a dust-tite and was built by Harold van Hoosen.
This was up for auction this year… Unsure if it sold but the anticipated price was $600-800k.
November 16, 2015
Good Memories
About a year ago my wife and I were planning our great trip to the west coast. Riding two-up around and beyond the hilly streets of San Fransisco was one of the highlights. Not quite Steve & Jaqueline taking a break from filming Bullitt but close!
November 15, 2015
Le moto libre
Such a powerful image to our times. The freedom of a biker zooming through Paris.
Acknowledgements to Bonnefication your one stop source for everything Triumph Bonneville (apart from Geordiebiker).
November 14, 2015
Vice la France
Pont Alexandre III in Paris which crosses the Seine near the Champs-Élysées . It leads the eye up to the Arc de Triomphe.
November 12, 2015
Sunless Speed
Let’s head into the weekend at a hundred miles per hour – average! This is the beefy Black Shadow which, in 1952, set a six hour endurance record on the racetrack at Montlhery. This very machine was sold at auction a couple of years ago for $200,000. That’s four hundred bucks a mile.
November 11, 2015
In Person
Going to the Chicago launch event for the all new Bonnies and Thruxtons… Can’t wait!
November 10, 2015
Yellow Thruxton
Yellow is the color people most often associate with amusement, optimism, gentleness, and spontaneity, but also with duplicity, envy, jealousy, avarice, and, with cowardice. It plays an important role in Asian culture, where it is seen as the color of happiness, glory, wisdom, harmony and culture.
Quite a range of emotions in this color.
The word yellow comes from the Old English geolu, geolwe meaning yellow, or yellowish, derived from the Proto-Germanic word gelwaz “yellow”. It has the same Indo-European base as the word yell; which means both bright and gleaming, and to cry out. Yellow is a color which cries out for attention.
November 9, 2015
Patsy
Lovely Joanna Lumley looking lively red on the mighty 90’s Triumph Daytona. Photo by Terry O’Neill.
November 8, 2015
Hippy Hipsters from Hip-City.
We’re more like the Hip-replacement crowd… But the fashion-fun folks at Vogue magazine know a cool prop when they see one. A lightly customized new classic Triumph Scrambler. I’m going to teach Geordie how to ride on pillion like that.
November 7, 2015
Che
Ernesto Guevara. Doctor, revolutionary, icon, cigar smoker. And horse rider. We know his exploits across South America on his old Norton but here he is in full guerilla mode riding through the Sierra Maestra mountains of southern Cuba looking the part. A new world awaits those who dare.
November 6, 2015
Viva la revolución
Wonderfully evocative photo from 1956. It’s film actress Lina Salomé on her classy Harley Davidson in Havana Cuba. I was in a lecture about planning, design and landscape architecture in the largest Caribbean island today and it reminded me of our trip there ten years ago.
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