Celebrity motorcyclists and "image"

**mstriumph** · 3rd May 2006, 20:42

Originally Posted by Squeak the Rat

Helen Clarke used to ride a Honda step-thru. She's pretty cool and well respected.

... thought that a 'step thru' was a 1930's panty-girdle?

... do you have a pic?

**mstriumph** · 3rd May 2006, 20:43

........... how about those two elderly ladies that went around england by bike and sidecar drinking a lot of wine?????//

ohhhh - and they used to cook, too ............

**ZeroIndex** · 3rd May 2006, 20:45

two words.. : THE FONZ!!

**Ixion** · 3rd May 2006, 20:52

Originally Posted by Hitcher

T E. Of Arabia. Death by Triumph. And he wasn't burning up the desert on it...

Triumph? 'Twas a Brough, as Mr Motu said. And 'twas a country lane he was burning down (though they called it scorching then)

**Hitcher** · 3rd May 2006, 20:56

Originally Posted by Ixion

Triumph? 'Twas a Brough, as Mr Motu said.

I stand corrected.

**Paul in NZ** · 3rd May 2006, 21:19

Originally Posted by Hitcher

T E. Of Arabia. Death by Triumph. And he wasn't burning up the desert on it...

No. He was avoiding a Postman at the time!

"Boa is a top-gear machine, as sweet in that as most single-cylinders in middle. I chug lordlily past the guard-room and through the speed limit at no more than sixteen. Round the bend, past the farm, and the way straightens. Now for it. The engine's final development is fifty-two horsepower. A miracle that all this docile strength waits behind one tiny lever for the pleasure of my hand.
"Another bend: and I have the honour of one of England's straightest and fastest roads. The burble of my exhaust unwound like a long cord behind me. Soon my speed snapped it, and I
heard only the cry of the wind which my battering head split and fended aside. The cry rose with my speed to a shriek: while the air's coldness streamed like two jets of iced water into my dissolving eyes. I screwed them to slits, and focused my sight two hundred yards ahead of me on the empty mosaic of the tar's gravelled undulations."

"...Over the first pot-hole Boanerges screamed in surprise, its mud-guard bottoming with a yawp upon the tyre. Through the plunges of the next ten seconds I clung on, wedging my gloved hand in the throttle lever so that no bump should close it and spoil our speed...

"A skittish motor-bike with a touch of blood in it is better than all the riding animals on earth, because of its logical extension of our faculties, and the hint, the provocations, to excess conferred by its honeyed untiring smoothness. Because Boa loves me, he gives me five more miles of speed than a stranger would get from him."

Excerpts from "The Road," by T.E. Lawrence

God I'd like one.....

http://www.broughsuperiorclub.com/home.htm

**Ixion** · 3rd May 2006, 21:23

Which causes me to wonder, have any other "celebrities" , or folk of fame and renown, met their (presumably untimely) end astride two wheels?

**Hitcher** · 3rd May 2006, 21:27

Originally Posted by Ixion

Which causes me to wonder, have any other "celebrities" , or folk of fame and renown, met their (presumably untimely) end astride two wheels?

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is a list of famous people who have died as a result of motorcycle accidents.

* T.E. Lawrence, 18 May 1935, soldier, writer.
* Richard Farina, 30 April 1966, singer, musician.
* Duane Allman, 29 October 1971, musician.
* Berry Oakley, 11 November 1972, musician
* Coluche, aka Michel Colucci, 19 June 1986, French comedian
* Pete Conrad, 8 July 1999, astronaut.
* Joey Dunlop, 2 July 2000, motorcycle racer.
* "Indian Larry" Desmedt, August 30, 2004, motorcycle builder and stuntman
* Andy Kirby, August 2002, NASCAR Busch Series Driver