Gals take to the streets on choppers and bobbers

Ann Margaret flinging her 'bye, bye, birdy' persona to the desert winds and taking off down the road Captain America style. Point it to the horizon and keep going!

Too Kool 4 Skool, fer shure...

Hardtail triumph with well sprung seat.

Redhead Sara and her ride, low seat and flipped bars; a moto for the road.

Royal Mail

Over the years the Royal Mail have used motorcycles for rapid delivery; much before FedEx and the like. We'll look at some of their bikes later, however in 2005 they created a commemorative series dedicated to British bikes including: a Rotary Norton, Royal Enfield, Vincent, BSA and Brough Superior.

Taking pride of place at 47 pence is a Triumph Speed Triple.

Chopper Triumph

The late 60's and early 70's was the time when the chopper culture entered it's golden, glitzy, chrome-laden, and psychadelic colored era. Here'a couple of examples of the style.  Not necessarily raked forks all the time, but a semi-bobbed style. This one has a super open-road portrait stretching into the distance. Insect-like headlights, but a comfortable riding geometry.

U-shaped bucket seat, peanut tank and raked hardtail frmae; that's chopper style. The british twins were used as much as the harley v-twins are seen today in these custom specials.

Crumb-esque drawings add to tne light hearted nature of the lifestyle...

...keep on ridin'!

Dream Garage?

Ooh, to have a place to wheel in a British Iron needing some tinkering, overhaul or just plain looked at! A space with a workbench, tools, wireless playing, a shelf with a cat curled up with sleepy eyes watcing over your work...

650 Piston

A triptych of one of the old pistons from the Bonnie. They are quite elegant in their purposeful form.

A perennial favourite

Beautiful loose sketch from some brochure in the 60's, A sense of light adventure to be had astride a Meriden twin. Won't go too far or fast with her skirt though!

Wot no Triumph?

... yup it's wor blokey bloke Barry Sheene, two wheeled racer boyhood hero. Great shot on this ealry 70's Yamaha with a ginormous dront 4LS drum. Duck helmet icon evident also. V for Victory!