New magazine for Triumph Cub/Terrier owners and fans

OK Blog readers, here's a big announcement......can I have some trumpet fanfare please!?!!! In the words of some singer...Thank you, thank you very much. 10 points for a correct guess by the way.

To do my bit to promote the classic motorcycle movement, Bodger is using this space to let you know that my good friend Gorgeous Biker Chick or GBC in sunny (?) Scotland has decided to go into the magazine business sort of.

Soooooooo......... coming to you, after you pay for a subscription of course, will be a new, quarterly (I think) magazine that will be devoted to the wee Triumph Tiger Cubs and smaller brother, the Triumph Terrier.

The first issue is due out in April of 2012, no word just yet on costs, but it shouldn't break the bank or require the taking out of a loan or second mortgage.

Even Bodger will be subscribing even though these smaller Triumphs aren't members of the shed with Amelia the wee Starfire and Vicky the Victor Special.

So whadda ya waiting for, start digging for coins in the couch, raid the sprogs' piggy banks or dip into the Fort Knox known as the other halfs purse and get your very own subscription to the magazine.

Also, you can look on line at www.thecubmag.com.

Go on....ya know ya want to!!!!  

More book learning

I recently got this book as it might give me some ideas of my "ideal shed/garage".                                 

There were a couple of chapters that looked good and others that were more in the line of a rich blokes toy room. 

The one at the very end of the book was one that really caught my eye, an old service station converted into a workshop and whatever else. A bit untidy maybe, but it looks good instead of like being a surgical theater like some in the book.

The main reason for some of this ramblings on is there is a chapter about an old boy here in Texas that has quite a nice collection of vintage rides. Apparently this bloke, Barry Solomon, had started in a modest way and after a visit to the Lone Star Motorcycle Museum (LSMCM) that I've mentioned a few times, decided to do it up in a big way.

Seems that he had QUITE the collection going with some older vintage machines in it that were beautifully restored.

And this was a collection that I would have loved to have seen. I say loved to as I have recently discovered through Allan Johncock, the owner of the LSMCM that Barry Solomon had the whole lot auctioned off a short while ago.

Drat and botheration!!!

I also found out the name of the town where another collection is housed. I had heard about it while at the New Ulm Rallye on a couple of occasions and while talking to Allan he told me that it was in a small town called Sealy. The collection isn't signposted and you have to have directions to it, of which I have vague directions and an idea, but I will venture forth and look for it one day.

It seems that this collection is made up of off road bikes such as motocross, scrambles, trials, greenlaners and other types. My guess is that it may not exactly be set up like the LSMCM or the National Motorcycle Museum in Brum, but that I don't care about, as long as I can see the bikes, get pictures and just have a poke about.

So stay tuned sometime in the future, this decade at least, for a possible report.



How bizarre

A friend of mine sent this to me via Faceache as she thought I'd get a kick out of it. Don't know anything about it other than it had me scratching the old noggin.

Can't make out any good details other than two wheels, a horn, headlight and front end "suspension" springs.

I guess there's two things that really have to be worried about....fire and termites!!!!!!!!

A good read

The other day I got this and have already finished.....and yes....I can read believe it or not.

Actually this is a really good book and Mick wrote this pretty much how people would talk, not any of this flowery nonsense but down to earth everyday talk with humor. This is not all dry or boring.

If you get a chance to read it, do it, I think you'll enjoy it, I know I did.