April 9, 2023

Breakfast of Champions

Olympic fry-up

Gorgeous spring weather and a loop around Lake Geneva just across the state line into Wisconsin. I stopped in at Yerkes Observatory with its beautiful architecture. It’s open for tours now (though not today on the Easter weekend. Splendid day out.

April 7, 2023

Put the kettle on!

Legend

55 years ago today was when the works of Motorsport lost one of the greats. Jim Clark, Scottish farmer, and driver of fast cars crashed at Hockenheimring end what would surely have been the greatest racier of all time.

April 5, 2023

Pontiac Muscle

‘70 GTO

Bottle green with a V8 Big Block good for 500 lb ft of torque and 360 horsepower. Spied on Devon Avenue on my drive home. “Mid-size” in its day! Loverly, just.

April 2, 2023

STOP

Coffee Intermission

Spring weather on a Sunday means “let’s get the bikes oot!” Oil change then a spin north to Lake Bluff for a coffee and scone. Many bikers were out too!

“Ooh. Stop!

With your feet on the air and your head on the ground
Try this trick and spin it, yeah”

April 1, 2023

Cheeky!

Bloody Sore Arse

BSA through the woods. A hippy couple take a trip under leafy boughs, fifty years ago. The cover of a parts catalogue.

April 1, 2023

Cheeky!

Bloody Sore Arse

BSA through the woods. A hippy couple take a trip under leafy boughs, fifty years ago. The cover of a parts catalogue.

March 31, 2023

Pineapple Posing

Fresh Air and a Smike

Hardtail chopper using a pre-unit Triumph motor is photographed like a prized possession. Bikini clad model says its two-wheeled summer fun ahead. Weather is improving here in the Midwest and a Sunday ride is planned. Pina Colada anyone?

March 28, 2023

Incline

“We’re still goin’ upstairs like a bat outa hell”

So said Chuck Yeager in his Bell X-1 jet ‘Glamorous Glennis’ over Muroc Field in 1947 when bustin’ through the sound barrier. Mach 1. Here’s a ‘47 T100 Triumph stretched and geared to climb steep hills.

March 28, 2023

Incline

“We’re still goin’ upstairs like a bat outa hell”

So said Chuck Yeager in his Bell X-1 jet ‘Glamorous Glennis’ over Muroc Field in 1947 when bustin’ through the sound barrier. Mach 1. Here’s a ‘47 T100 Triumph stretched and geared to climb steep hills.

March 25, 2023

Nine of Nine

‘Twenty Three range

The models currently available from Triumph offer diverse riding styles. From Superbike fast; to rugged adventure; and distinguished classic. All quite marvelous.

March 24, 2023

Jump into the Weekend!

Keep your Cool

Be like Steve and get some fresh air, you owe it to yourself. It would have been Mr McQueens 93 birthday today.

March 18, 2023

Goggles to Go

Smile for Saturday

Honor Blackman in military garb as a courier rider during the war.

March 15, 2023

Confounding Contraptions

Heath Robinson

Whenever overly complicated and seemingly unnecessarily contrived machines are required then there in no one better call than from the drawing desk of cartoonist William Heath Robinson. His whimsical inventions were improbable, rickety machine barely kept going by incessant tinkering.

March 13, 2023

Farkles and Gewgaws

Gimcrackery

Accessorize the ride. A plethora of fixin’s to spruce up the bike. From a studded kidney belt, to Davy Crockett tail tassels. I’d rather just leave the Triumph we’ll enough alone.

March 12, 2023

Cut from a Different Cloth

Ooh, you are awful, but I like you.

Such was the catch phrase of comedian Dick Emery, whose ribald humor was very much of its day. He was also an avid motorcyclist riding big powerful machines such as this Kawasaki, BMW R90’s and Honda 750’s.