Saturday 28 June 2014

Stylo

Bobby Womack died yesterday. He was cool...

Stylo




#BobbyWomack #Gorillaz #Stylo #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage

Pride

Pride























#Pride #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage

Tuesday 24 June 2014

Rainbow

Rainbow

































#RainbowHelmet #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage


Ural

Ural Gear Up


#Ural #GearUp #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage

Sunday 22 June 2014

Workshop Night

Illustration by Adam Nickel
























































Illustration by Adam Nickel


#AdamNickel #MercenaryGarage #Mercenary

Tokyo Night

 No Future Krew


No Future Krew 


#TokyoNight #NoFutureKrew #NFK #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage

LiveWire

Typical!

You stop paying attention to your blog and the rest of the motorcycle world for a week and all of a sudden Harley Davidson releases a ground-braking electric motorcycle!!

Ground-braking? Well, yeah... for a couple of reasons.



Firstly, Harley Davidson is not renowned for forward thinking. I don't mean this in a disparaging way, what I mean is that HD has been churning out 2-valve air-cooled vee-twins since biblical times and that's what their innately conservative buyers want. And every time HD do something to modernise their bikes, it's met with resistance from their consumers.

Harley Davidson were content enough with this arrangement during the '90s and noughties because the baby boomers were buying Harleys in their droves. At least, they were happy until about five years ago when they suddenly realised that their core consumer was getting older and older and they weren't getting any new customers to replace them as they died off.

This was a shocker for Harley and they reacted to it quickly and appropriately. They started selling stripped down Sportsters to hipsters and developed the new water-cooled Street 500 and 750 machines for emerging markets. And in doing this, they stopped being complacent and started being future oriented. And now they've released (well, released images of) a new electric motorcycle...

And secondly, they're the first (to my knowledge) major motorcycle manufacturer to take electric bikes seriously. There are already some pretty cool electric bikes on the market from companies such as Brammo and Mission and there are loads more in development from companies such as Ego, Tacita and Voxan, but these are niche products by relatively small manufacturers. And Mugen (closely affiliated with Honda) are winning races with their electric bike but again, that's pretty niche.

It's interesting that normally conservative Harley Davidson are stealing a march on the Japanese companies. And the bike looks pretty good. It's a sort of a streetfighter and shares DNA with the V-Rod and the new Street 500/750.

My understanding is, that it's not actually being offered for sale but is merely a sort of teaser to judge market response and maybe to tweek the technology a bit. It's exciting nonetheless.

The electric bike is coming. Bring it on...

Harley Davidson LiveWire

Harley Davidson LiveWire

Harley Davidson LiveWire




#LiveWire #HarleyDavidsonLiveWire #MercenaryGarage #Mercenary

Sunday 15 June 2014

Damien Kennedy

Photo by Leanne Brady



















































Photo by Leanne Brady


#IrishFreestyleStuntSeries #IFSS #DamianKennedyStunts #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage

Killing The Streets, Poland

Killing The Streets, Poland
 Photo by Sławek Michałowicz


#KillingTheStreets #PolandStunts #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage

78 Motor Company

78 Motor Company









































78 Motor Company


#78MotorCompany #Illustration  #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage

Sanctuary GPZ RCM 226

Sanctuary GPZ RCM 226



#Sanctuary #RCM #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage

CRD Workshop

Motorcycle Workshop



#CRD #CafeRacerDreams #MotorcycleWorkshop #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage

Friday 13 June 2014

Ruin

This has been around for a couple of years, but maybe you haven't seen it yet. The bike appears to be based on the Yamaha MT01 Concept Bike (which was a much more minimal affair than the behemoth that made it into production!). It's pretty cool if you're feeling all post-apocalyptic - and these days, who isn't!

Ruin

Ruin

Ruin



RUIN from Wes Ball on Vimeo.


#RuinShortFilm #PostApocalypse #YamahaMT01 #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage

Thursday 12 June 2014

Pulsar

What a shot!!

Pulsar


#GhostRiderz #PulsarIndia #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage

Stuntriding Is Not A Crime!


Stuntriding is Not a Crime

#StuntRidingIsNotaCrime #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage

Whatchagonnado?

I like this shot...

Whatchagonnado?


#WhatchaGonnaDo #MotocrossGirls #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage

Asuka

Asuka Langley


#Asuka #MotorcycleMecha #MotoGuzzi #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage

Wednesday 11 June 2014

Vibrazioni

Vibrazioni Art


#VibrazioniArt #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage

Speed Merchant

Speed Merchant


#SpeedMerchant #FTWCo #FlatTracker #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage

What Time Is It?

12 O'Clock obviously...

Rob Carpenter


#RobCarpenter #Sportster #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage

Spanky!

If only they'd stay this clean...

Spanky!


#TidyMotor #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage

Sketch

Artist Unknown


Artist Unknown


#Sketch #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage

Ride Back

Ride Back


#RideBack #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage

Sunday 8 June 2014

Ride Back

Ride Back


#RideBack #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage

The Gift - Police Bike and Rider

The Gift - Police Bike and Rider


#TheGift #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage

Gundam Calling

Gundam Calling




































#GundamCalling #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage

Mass Centralisation

Not.

Matt Tkocz


#MattTkocz #MassCentralisation #RobotBike #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage

Saturday 7 June 2014

Speed Merchant

Speed Merchant

#SpeedMerchant #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage

IOM Paton

I saw this bike at BSMC about a fortnight ago. Apparently it's a full-on race bike and it was raced in the Isle of Mann yesterday.

Every day's a school day!

IOM Paton


#Paton #IOM #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage

Why We Ride

Why We Ride



#WhyWeRide #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage

Canyon

Canyon


#KTM #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage

Three

Three


#Honda #CB #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage

No Compromise

No Compromise


#NoCompromise #Sportster #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage

Custom Ruckus

Custom Ruckus


#HondaRuckus #CustomRuckus #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage

Friday 6 June 2014

Mega-Cub

Mega-Cub


#HondaCub #StreetCub #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage

Bling Grom

Bling Grom



































#HondaGrom #Grom #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage

Dax

Dax


#HondaDax #ST70 #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage

Thursday 5 June 2014

Grom

They say you meet the nicest people on a Honda...

Grom


#HondaGrom #Grom #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage

Akira

Akira Ruairi Robinson













































 #Akira #AkiraBike #KanedaBike #RuairiRobinson #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage

Kaneda Bike

I'm obsessing about this lately and I'm not sure why...

Akira Kaneda Bike


#Akira #AkiraBike #KanedaBike #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage

David Beckham

I like David Beckham, I think he's a gentleman. But he always seems a bit cross when he's around motorcycles...

David Beckham
































#DavidBeckham #Triumph #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage

CRD#20

CRD#20


#CRD #CafeRacerDreams #CafeRacer #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage

Murdered-Out KLR 650

Murdered-Out KLR 650


#KLR650 #MurderedOut #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage

Harley Davidson XR1200TT

Harley Davidson XR1200TT


#XR1200TT #HarleyDavidson #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage

CB900/1157 Feddie Spencer Replica

CB900F


Image Unknown


#CB900F #FredieSpencerReplica #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage

Custom Cubs

Custom Cubs


#CustomCubs #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage