Saturday, July 31, 2010

scoots!

Aloha, My Dear...

Thanks for Dropping By!

*Sigh* Let's not spend the whole day at the beach...




"The chief barrier to happiness...


is envy."



Frank Tyger






Side-car Scoot!




"The sentimentalist

ages far more quickly

than the person who loves his work

and enjoys new challenges."


Lillie Langtry





Gardener? That's an Ulu (breadfruit) leaf turned yellow.




"Boys dream of native girls who bring breadfruit,

Whatever they are,"


Philip Larkin



A wee cafe` racer!


"A café racer, originally pronounced "caff" (as in Kaff) racer, is a type of motorcycle as well as a type of motorcyclist.



Both meanings have their roots in the 1960s British counterculture group the Rockers, or the Ton-up boys, although they were also common in Italy, Germany, and other European countries.



Rockers were a young and rebellious Rock and Roll counterculture that wanted a fast, personalized and distinctive bike to travel between transport cafés along the newly built arterial motorways in and around British towns and cities.




The goal of many was to be able to reach 100 miles per hour (called simply "the ton") along such a route where the rider would leave from a cafe, race to a predetermined point and back to the cafe before a single song could play on the jukebox, called record-racing. They are remembered as being especially fond of Rockabilly music and their image is now embedded in today's rockabilly culture.





A classic example of this was to race from the Ace Cafe on The North Circular road in NW London to the Hanger Lane junction as it then was - it is now the more famous Hanger Lane Gyratory System - and back again. The aim was to get back to the Ace Cafe before the record you'd put onto the jukebox had finished. Given that some of the Eddie Cochran tunes that were in vogue at this time were less than two minutes long, the racers would have had to traverse the three miles round trip at extremely high speed."
Wikipedia



Let's GO!

17 comments:

  1. I love the scoot! Thanks for visiting My Muskoka!

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  2. Looks like another great day at the beach! Great pics! Aloha, cher!

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  3. I love the sidecar. Aloha from Seattle!

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  4. I love the sidecar scoot and the one that goes 100 mph!! Thanks for sharing all this scooter miscellanea!

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  5. wise sayings by the jersey Lily, with photos from island paradise and biker trivia???
    First let me say thanks for dropping a comment today. and second, Why did I not know of this blog before?

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  6. Those are very unusual looking motorbikes to my now American eye that only seems to run into Harley Davisons, and the like. In Brooklyn the other day I saw a very flamboyant new looking 3-wheeler in yellow, which I thought probably safer to ride. I did read somewhere that more women are creating their own groups for adventure on the roadways - The side-car of the first bike looks like a bomb!

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  7. In summer season, beaches in Hawaii must be crowded with many travelers.

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  8. Speed's for sure an alluring thing tonight. Please have a nice new month.


    daily athens

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  9. the chief barrier to joy is envy...
    love this quote!

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  10. http://itistimetothinkformyself.blogspot.com/2010/07/pick-one-or-two-to-share-follow-rule-no.html

    I am doing this to show my appreciations to your support.
    if you accept one or two and share, then that’s a great bliss,
    no obligations…
    Happy Sunday ahead!
    :)

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  11. I used to have a scooter (not a moped--there's definitely a difference.) The kind I had went on to become a bona fide motorcycle. I loved that thing...

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  12. I absolutely LOVE my scooter!!! It's one of my most favorite activities!! And I can always find a parking spot!! I would imagine living on an island...a scooter would be a great investment!!
    Aloha, my friend!!
    Jeanne of bermudabluez

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  13. Hi Cloudia! But that's a great beach to spend the whole day... ;)

    There is a weird post at Blogtrotter Two... Enjoy and have a great Sunday and a gorgeous week ahead!

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  14. yes... we had to depend on what we call scooter.... not for racing though!

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