April 14, 2022

I-90

Speedy Delivery

– interesting advertising on the rear of a box truck along the Interstate in the Chicago suburbs. A rabbit (or is it a hare?) riding a speedy sports bike.

April 3, 2022

Big Cat

Tiger in the Dust

There are a few glowing articles out there about the new Triumph Tiger 1200. Redesigned from the ground up. The various models give blistering attitude for the asphalt roadways and the crude off-road trails. Press release was carried out in Portugal.

April 2, 2022

Blazer!

Hack Comic

A new publication from the able mind of once 2000ad editor Steve Macmanus includes this wartime story of a mercenary fighter and his sidekick romping the lush Burmese jungle on a motorcycle combination.

March 30, 2022

Yellow Peril

Tuning Fork

– Kenny Roberts yellow Yamaha spied on Sheridan Road. Nice looking roadster.

March 28, 2022

Seventy Four

Hang On!

Excitement could crop up at any moment.

March 26, 2022

City Scooter

Turquoise Transport

Spied just off Michigan Avenue under a towering Sears Tower this colorful scoot sits waiting for some art college hipster to zing off through the urban grid.

March 24, 2022

Harvey Mushman

Cool Dude

Steve McQueen’s birthday.

March 20, 2022

Padfoot and Harelip

Spring is in the Wind

– Bike running just great. Windscreen ideal to keep a cool lakefront air off me. Cup of coffee in Waukegan. Roads fairly quiet.

March 13, 2022

Winter Warmup

First Ride Out

finally able to get the Tiger onto the road today. Temperatures in the low fifties and blue blue heavens. The Lake echoed a classic Caribbean azure along the North Shore. New knobbly tires and clear tall windscreen were a treat. Short mulch path off road was transverse with ease.

March 12, 2022

Turtley Awesome

Cowabunga Dudes!

– The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles we’re a phenom in the late 80’s. Named after renaissance artists, Michelangelo , Donatello, Raphael and Leonardo, they came from the sewers of New York City to fight crime. Surfer jargon was essential too.

March 10, 2022

…thanks for all the fish!

Mostly Harmless

Douglas Adams would have been 70 today

March 9, 2022

Space voyager

Yuri Gagarin

Born this day in 1934

March 8, 2022

XX

The Fairer Sex

International Women’s Day – Gender equality today for a sustainable tomorrow.

https://www.un.org/en/observances/womens-day

March 6, 2022

Solidarity & Triumph

Stand with Ukraine

March 5, 2022

Six Score

Triumph motorcycle celebration

– albeit a slight hiccup in the eighties, this marque has stretched from the Victorian age (The first prototype dates from 1901 so just makes it) to well into the Twenty First Century.