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Showing posts with label Sad. Show all posts
Thursday 30 November 2023
Wednesday 26 July 2023
Monday 29 May 2023
Thursday 22 December 2022
20 Years
On this day, twenty years ago, Joe Strummer died.
#JoeStrummer #WWJSD #Strummerville #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage
Thursday 10 November 2022
Tired Now
This little Cockney Sparrow is tired now. Tired of Tories masquerading as Labour. Tired of oligarchs masquerading as Tories. Tired of inept party leaders with hidden agendas.
Image - Unkown
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Wednesday 12 October 2022
VHS Wednesday
I know we did this one before, but just look at the poster and imagine how great the movie that had such a poster would be! It would be Mad Max rolled into Terminator but better than either! It would be the greatest sci-fi-bikesploitation movie the world has ever known and you would watch it every single VHS Wednesday evening since 1987 and never tire of it!
Just imagine!!
Sadly, that movie doesn't exist and the movie that got this poster is complete horseshit...
Illustration - R.O.T.O.R. (1987)
#VHSWednesday #ROTOR #Bikesploitation #SciFiMovies #Horseshit #Mercenary #MercenaryMotorcycles #MercenaryGarage
Thursday 20 May 2021
Rain
It's raining like a mofo here in Dublin today...
Illustration Dewey Neal
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Tuesday 13 April 2021
Some Days
Some days you eat the bear. Some days the bear eats you.
Photographer Unknown
#Scrambler #Mud #Mercenary #MercenaryMotorcycles #MercenaryMotorcycleWorkshop #MercenaryGarage
Tuesday 2 June 2020
Friday 30 August 2019
Jessi Combs
(1980-2019)
Image Unknown
#JessiCombs #FastestWomanOnFourWheels #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage
Image Unknown
#JessiCombs #FastestWomanOnFourWheels #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage
Saturday 22 December 2018
Joe Strummer
(21 August 1952 – 22 December 2002)
Sixteen years...
Image via britishpunx
#JoeStrummer #JoeStrummerAndTheMescaleros #TheClash #Strummerville #ObeyStrummer #WWJSD #WhatWouldJoeStummerDo #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage
Tuesday 13 November 2018
Wez & the Golden Youth
The Road Warrior (1981)
#GoldenYouth #RoadWarrior #MadMax #LGBTQ #BDSM #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage
Wednesday 24 October 2018
Racist Much?
This is odd as fuck!
Apart from the intentionally racist byline, the rest of the copy is full of inconsistencies.
It dismisses the relative complexities of liquid cooled motors and rising rate shock linkages as 'Technology for the sake of Technology' and curiously implies that wheel mounted rear disks are just not a good idea. Then without a hint of irony goes on to advocate for a rear brake disk mounted on the front sprocket.
Now I can see the sense in this. Removing the disk and caliper from the rear wheel would indeed reduce the unsprung mass and that is a worthy thing - though 5 lbs or over 2.25 kg seems a bit optimistic.
But subjecting the rear brake caliper and disk to the constant heat of the motor and oil from the chain probably mitigates against this somewhat. Also, in the admittedly unlikely event of throwing a chain, you no longer have a rear brake. I dunno, maybe it worked well and I do admire that sort of 'Out of the Box' thinking. But unlike liquid cooled motors and rising rate shock linkages, it's a technology that never caught on.
Also, despite all the ad's jingoistic flag waving, the bike is equipped with an Austrian Rotax motor...
The ad is almost thirty years old, but it doesn't seem out of date given the political climate in America today.
Apart from the intentionally racist byline, the rest of the copy is full of inconsistencies.
It dismisses the relative complexities of liquid cooled motors and rising rate shock linkages as 'Technology for the sake of Technology' and curiously implies that wheel mounted rear disks are just not a good idea. Then without a hint of irony goes on to advocate for a rear brake disk mounted on the front sprocket.
Now I can see the sense in this. Removing the disk and caliper from the rear wheel would indeed reduce the unsprung mass and that is a worthy thing - though 5 lbs or over 2.25 kg seems a bit optimistic.
But subjecting the rear brake caliper and disk to the constant heat of the motor and oil from the chain probably mitigates against this somewhat. Also, in the admittedly unlikely event of throwing a chain, you no longer have a rear brake. I dunno, maybe it worked well and I do admire that sort of 'Out of the Box' thinking. But unlike liquid cooled motors and rising rate shock linkages, it's a technology that never caught on.
Also, despite all the ad's jingoistic flag waving, the bike is equipped with an Austrian Rotax motor...
The ad is almost thirty years old, but it doesn't seem out of date given the political climate in America today.
As Trump might say - Sad!
Image Unknown
#ATK #MAGA #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage
Image Unknown
#ATK #MAGA #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage
Tuesday 2 October 2018
Carlos Ezquerra
2000AD artist Carlos Ezquerra died yesterday aged 70. I'm feeling a bit wistful about that.
Illustration Carlos Ezquerra
#CarlosEzquerra #StrontiumDog #JohnnyAlpha #2000AD #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage
Illustration Carlos Ezquerra
#CarlosEzquerra #StrontiumDog #JohnnyAlpha #2000AD #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage
Tuesday 3 October 2017
Tom Petty
(October 20, 1950 – October 2, 2017)
#TomPetty #RIPTomPetty #YouGotLucky #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage
#TomPetty #RIPTomPetty #YouGotLucky #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage
Saturday 9 September 2017
Tuesday 29 August 2017
That Feeling You Get...
That feeling you get when you've just done something irrevocably stupid and you wish you had a time machine that could take you back ten seconds. Just ten tiny seconds...
If you've ever stripped a spark-plug thread or over torqued and snapped a cylinder-head stud or dropped something into the cam tunnel of a motor with no sump (or over-revved your Ducati on the bench so it made a Cruunch noise and suddenly stopped) then you are probably familiar with this feeling.
MERCENARY knows this feeling well.
Image Kyle Lieberman
#RegretsIveHadaFew #KyleLieberman #RadRau #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage
If you've ever stripped a spark-plug thread or over torqued and snapped a cylinder-head stud or dropped something into the cam tunnel of a motor with no sump (or over-revved your Ducati on the bench so it made a Cruunch noise and suddenly stopped) then you are probably familiar with this feeling.
MERCENARY knows this feeling well.
Image Kyle Lieberman
#RegretsIveHadaFew #KyleLieberman #RadRau #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage
Tuesday 13 June 2017
Thursday 8 June 2017
Climate Change
The first billionaire to reappraise his position on Climate Change, Batman makes a mental note to talk to Alfred about a Bat-Jetski or maybe a Bat-Hovercraft...
Image HRJoe Photography
#Batman #Batpod #ClimateChange #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage
Image HRJoe Photography
#Batman #Batpod #ClimateChange #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage
Friday 24 March 2017
Sad Sidecar
This guy is sad 'cos although he's gone to the trouble of fitting his ancient sidecar combination with a more modern oil-cooled motor, he's just realised it's still rubbish.
And he can hear a supercharged Kawasaki H2 from the other side of the lake.
Photographer Unknown
#BMW #Sidecar #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage
And he can hear a supercharged Kawasaki H2 from the other side of the lake.
Photographer Unknown
#BMW #Sidecar #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage
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