Looks like the Norton Ernesto and Alberto rode in the film version of The Motorcycle Diaries.
Excellent book & film IMHO.

Just because you can destroy an old airhead doesn’t mean you should.
I give this one a thumbs down.
Of course, YMMV

Thanks for this.
Very interesting.

Ultraconservatism

Jism

I remember Jay Silverheels doing commercials for IH Scout
Git em up Scout

mechanism

Fascism

This photo is visually appealing. Needs a bigger tank, but a good looking bike.
The 1st photos a couple months ago look like they were drawn by R.Crumb.

nihilism

Stalinism (remind you of anybody?)

So it goes..

Ya know Daboo, “No Way” will I drive into Seattle anymore.
Too many people & too much traffic.
I guess it’s all in your perspective.

No offense N4H, but I still gotta wonder about folks that spell California with a K

My friend Pauli was raised in Germany.
He told me Mercedes is pronounced mer-c-daz in Germany.
He also gave me a few Home Shop Machinist magazines from ‘87
This thread is really going off-topic.

Shell & Russia does not surprise me.
I remember reading years ago that at the beginning of WWII Shell was supplying both the Allies & the Axis countries with petroleum products.
They explained that...

Daboo i agree with most of what you say, but..
You drink coffee when you are driving/riding?
Oh yeah, Starbucks’s headquarters is in Seattle.

Snow White beards? Hey, I resemble that remark :-)
When I was a kid, LOUD pipes were an infraction, I got some tickets & put muffler back on.
I guess it no longer matters, the louder the better.

I found one of Peter Egan’s books, used at Goodwill, ”Leanings”, reprint columns from Cycle World.
One of his stories is about a M/C ride he & a friend took in 1967. Some of the places they weren’t...

Wedding tackle...that’s a new one to me :-), I like it!

Or a good IPA
Hang in there Flook!

Well Flook if it’s any consolation, it’s better to be peed off than peed on :-)

Really shitty news.
I’m sure a lot of us geezers are now researching our blood pressure meds.
Also an organ donor here. i Am reminded of John Prine’s (RIP) song “Please Don’t Bury Me”

Welcome back BSA.

I can’t comment on the folks running the shop now.
However I grew up a couple of blocks from the shop in the late 50s & early 60s & remember the original owners, Ruth & Jay.
Jay could be a little...