So cool it’s as chilly as a draft whipping down from Up North. Spindly sinewy muscle ready for a lightweight rip along the B roads on a June afternoon.
June 23, 2015
Cafe’d Cub
June 22, 2015
Tracks in the Sand
We’ve all heard about the fable “Footprints in the sand”. An allegory reflecting on the journey of life with guidance for the twists and turns thrust in our way. Well here’s the Fathers Day version… Yes I know it was Papas Day yesterday but I need to get this on the blog before I forget it.
Looking back on life you see wheeled tracks of your life’s travels in the sands of time. Early on there are a pair of them. Those double lines weaving in and out denote when your father rode with you; sometimes showing you the way ahead, other times guiding you along and further sections watching over as you speed ahead across fresh sand. Teacher, Mentor, Guide. Later on there is a single tire track weaving along representing the adventures of your own experiences as they travel across ripples, over dunes, through surf; marked by knobby fresh tires at some stretches and worn down ‘boots’ at others. You ask where he went? Well he’s earned his keep on the rugged shores and is traveling parallel to the beach on the smoother roads of life driving his Jaguar saying, “I told you everything you need; now you’ve just got to get on with the job! I’ll meet you for a fish & chip supper at the cafe up ahead!”
June 21, 2015
The Longest Day
Warm weather with fluffy clouds across a hazy blue sky. It would have been rude not to roll out The Bonnie and take her for a gentle cruise up north. An odd waft of cool air drifted from the Lake gave comfort to the slightly muggy atmosphere. My leather jacket had all vents open and the front zipper down somewhat. Nevertheless the feathers were ruffled and the ride enjoyed.
June 20, 2015
Le rouge drapeu à damier
If you just so happen to be at the old banked racetrack in Montlhery France this weekend you could do a lot worse that go and see vintage racers haring around the velodrome. This years promotional poster is aptly graphic for a period event. Three color screen is just perfect! (Well a couple of other colors too) Red haired checker waver is suitably elegant.
June 19, 2015
You’re busted creep!
even if you think about it! Judge Anderson is the psychic in Mega City One who goes after perp using thought alone.
Of course she’s armed with a palm-print Lawgiver and powerful Lawmaster bike.
Don’t let those sweet blond looks deceive you she’s already in your mind messing about with any bad criminally inclined thoughts…
Judge Dredd will bust your ass; Cassandra Anderson will bust your brain!
Latter day cover of a young cadet PSI Anderson.
June 18, 2015
Monkee Man
The Nez: one of the sixties assembled pop groups to thwart Beatles domination the guitar singer songwriter Michael Nesmith enjoyed all things cool Californian. And that included his love for Triumph motorcycles.
Plenty of zany shenanigans on their TV show.
And that green wool bobble hat!
June 17, 2015
Yellow
They say you should stare at something yellow for 30 seconds each morning to start you off on a brighter note for the day ahead. 
This Triumph Adventurer Sport is a definite morale booster for any sleepy eyes.
Look at the stars
Look how they shine for you
And everything you do
Yeah they were all yellow
Late last night
I heard the screen door slam
And a big yellow taxi
Took away my old man
Don’t it always seem to go
That you don’t know what you’ve got
Till it’s gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot.
She wore her yellow sun-bonnet,
She wore her greenest gown;
She turned to the south wind
And curtsied up and down.
She turned to the sunlight
And shook her yellow head,
And whispered to her neighbor:
“Winter is dead.
AA Milne
I write on big yellow legal pads – ideas in outline form when I’m doing stand-up and stuff. It’s vivid that way. Robin Williams
So we sailed up to the sun
Till we found a sea of green
And we lived beneath the waves
In our yellow submarine. 
June 16, 2015
Ago
Today is the birthday of multi world champion Giacomo Agostini 73. 122 GP wins, of which 15 were championships in the 350 and 500cc class. He also gained 13 TT wins on The Island. A career spanning from ’64 to ’77 he is considered to be one of the greatest. He was the MV Agusta factory rider making good use of the superlative Italuan machine on tracks around the world.
June 15, 2015
Zed
Whose motorcycle is this?
It’s a chopper baby.
Whose chopper is this?
It’s Zed’s.
Who’s Zed?
Zed’s dead baby,
Zed’s dead.
June 14, 2015
Hot Hatch
Our 2004 Mk4 has a new lease of life with her new brakes and rear struts. Still a zippy ride with enough poke to enjoy zooming about; we’ll see plenty more miles behind her wheel. The new mk7 which we parked next to last week has a nice sleek appearance and I’m sure has a fun aspect to driving it; but I do like the simpler lines of ‘Wor Gertie’.
June 13, 2015
Gertie’s new stoppers
Spent a good part of the morning putting new pads and rotors onto the VW GTI. She’ll stop like and ships anchors been thrown overboard…
June 12, 2015
Can
Finish where we started: the magazine cover art from Monday here in grey simplicity. She’s ready for a jaunt with her thick wooly pullover. Though I doubt that open bag may spill its contents along the road ahead. Spotty pants will hide mud splatter from the damp country lanes her pilot will no doubt take her along…
June 11, 2015
la puissance à revendre
A Cub speeds by and the bystanders twirl in amazement at the zippy little motor toting its rider along what looks like a typical street in a French town. An ornate streetlight, pollarded trees and high fashion ladies give it away.
Pooch looks on curiously.
June 10, 2015
Packed!
ive seen inside one of these little 200cc ‘gins and if the power is packed it must be quite a dense proposition in the watch-like internals. There ain’t much room! Unless you can miniaturize the little ponies hidden in there. Quite a snappy checked smock our friend is parading: and a bobble hat to top it off. The heavy submariners sweater on the behelmeted gal says she’s up for a spin next…
The phone box sits quite Tardis-like in the background. I think the illustrator wanted something man-made amongst the autumnal backdrop. Once again gotta love that brushed ink work!
June 9, 2015
Zestful Performance
Another period advertisement for the Cub: it’s like a promotion from Madmen: suit, pipe and brylcreem. Modern high street shopper behind are a mere swish of the artists ink brush, the ‘Baby Bonnie’ looks splendid as its shown off by the gauntlet’d owner. Only one hundred and forty four pounds and fifteen shilling!
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