Moped Monday

 

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Discosphere

 

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Cassette Futurism

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Amphicat

Where's the six-wheel-drive leisure-buggy future I was promised?!

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Buck Rogers in the 25th Century

This was first aired 46 years ago today. I mean, it's practically the 25th Century already!

 

Image - by Bruce Emmett via SciFi Art

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Problem Child

Evan, 1984 - "Fuck your BMX!"

Evan, 2025 - "Fuck your ADV!"

Images - via Evan

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HDATMM

I went to see Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man in an empty movie theatre on its opening night in 1991. It didn't get a lot of publicity in advance of its debut and what reviews there were, weren't good.

But I had to see it. And I came away torn. On the one hand I felt it was cheesy, but on the other it was deeply, deeply cool. So it has always had a special place in my heart, of which I've always been slightly ashamed.

I've watched it many times, but not for many years and so I chose to watch it again a few nights back. And the strangest thing happened...

Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man, seen through mature eyes and in the context of all that's going on in the world right now, is a great movie! Not just okay or good. Great!

It's well acted and fast paced and nicely shot. It doesn't rely on CGI explosions and a dozen mega-star actors and superhero franchises to churn out cookie-cutter blockbusters. It's its own thing. It's now closer in time to the bikesploitation movies of the late '60s than it is to the fucked-up future we now inhabit and yet it still feels futuristic and fresh.

And strangely, it's somehow lost the cheesiness that had made me ashamed to love it, in its place a newfound gravity. There is depth to the principal characters that had previously eluded me, which reveals more about their relationships and motivations.

Ultimately, it is a movie about love and friendship and finding your own way in life. And some 35 years after its release, I feel Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man is owed a reappraisal.

Read more - https://www.mercenary.ie/2013/05/harley-davidson-marlboro-man.html

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JPS

In an alternate timeline...

Image - Thomas Angebault via Ottonero

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Monoseed

This is making me feel weirdly nostalgic for a non-existent alternative mid-'80s timeline in which I built Japanese model kits as a teenager. 

That's probably enough internet for today...

Images - via https://spiralzonejp.blogspot.com/

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Rothmans VFR400R

Image - via ricor_photography on Instagram

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I Just Wanna

 Dublin City in the eighties. What a soundtrack!

#BlueInHeaven #IJustWanna #DublinPostPunk #DublinFuckingCity #Mercenary #MercenaryMotorcycles #MercenaryGarage

Oscillation Overthruster

 

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Kung Fury 2

 Two years behind schedule, this just dropped...

Previous Posts HERE - https://www.mercenary.ie/2015/05/kung-fury.html 

And HERE - https://www.mercenary.ie/2015/04/true-survivor.html 

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Max Anxiety

For the times we live in...

Image - Max Headroom (1986)

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Goth Girl

Every time Element Leader deletes a comment, a Goth Girl in the '80s breaks a nail.

Image - Bob Carlos Clarke

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BAD

 

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Drag Superlight

Remember that one time MERCENARY went drag racing on the Ducati 900SL Superlight? Plans are afoot to resurrect this little monster soon...

Image - Noel Feeney

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Superlight

Sometimes I think this is the most beautiful motorcycle ever made...

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Two-Stroke Tuesday

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Changeling

I've just seen on Rat Bike Zone that Baz, the original creator of this bike has died and I feel that he (and it) should be remembered as being the inspiration to a big chunk of the Rat and Survival Bike scene in the UK and Ireland.

I recall buying the first issue of AWOL Magazine in 1992 and reading the story of Baz and his bike. It's not an exaggeration to say that that experience was life altering. That dusty matte black rat bike spoke to my soul.

Rust in Power Baz, you've a lot to answer for...

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