Spring is here!

This is right the time when we all want to ride our bikes so I expect everyone to go to work, to friend's house or to go anywhere by bike. Spring is also good as we are all in need of sunbathing and girls look more beautiful in this season.

It's not the bike mates, it's the rider. Triumph Rocket III

The hottest rock!

Since I heard the latest AC/DC album, black ice, I was really surprised by this song. AC/DC is a band that can blow up your speakers but that won't surprise you much! This song sounds perfect for a ride next to a beach, bikinis, top less, warm weather and a cold beer!

Guzzi Girls - Brand New Passion

1951. Motorcycle diaries, the great "La Poderosa"

Ernesto Guevara is a very famous character nowadays and one of the most known faces on the 20th century. His life as a revolutionary working together with Fidel Castro in Cuba made him famous and caused his death. I will not get into any political discussion. Ernesto Guevara, el Che, was a great rider and we travelled around South America discovering a beautiful continent and becoming the man we was going to be.

In the picture above you can see him at the age of 22. That was back in 1951 when he decided to get a year off university before he finished studying medicine, and he went around the continent with his good friend Alberto Granado. Below, "La Poderosa", the machine they rode as can be found on the Che Guevara Museum, Cordoba, Argentina

They had glorious adventures in that trip as anyone who has attempted or done something like that knows, but you can easily find that on the book Motorcycle Diaries, written by Guevara himself on the first part, and continued by Granado later. The book is actually composed by two individual diaries so we have different points of view. There's also a well known film about it.

But I want to focus on the most important part for me: The Poderosa Bike.

Norton is another example of the great British Bikes of all times. Motorcycle started in UK and they taught everyone about it. By that time USA and Germany were also making bikes but nothing compared to the reliability and power of the british marks, famous by their speed.

However, don't think we're talking about today's Hondas reliability or anything similar. Old bikes had old problems and they stopped and had more breakdowns that today's bikes. That happened to Guevara and Granado in all their way and they finally left the bike unusable.

I also ride a 500cc and I can tell how well handling and good for travelling are. The half a litre range can ride easily and have a good mileage as they don't have a bulky engine, but they are powerful enough to go anywhere. But back in the 51 a 500cc was the top of the bikes so they weren't riding a moped at all.

I can imagine the feelings one get when travelling, specially when you have the option to take a whole year out just for fun and rides. They settled in some places and worked but they rode everywhere in all weather conditions. Some could say a bike like the Norton is not of the use of off-road riding and those weird situations but... why not?

I think Norton is a great bike that is fortunately producing bikes again, and you can use any of them as you please. As I see it, you do not need to buy a BMW to ride all over the world -no matter what Ewan McGregor did- but any bike would do if you ride properly.

Freedom for the information!!!!!! Let Google or whoever work properly

With all the current tension between Google and China's government I must say a couple of things.

Google has become one of the big giants in the business world and I have never liked them, but that's not the point. According to Google's philosophy they only inform people and that's something great. To be honest I use Google everyday and nearly all the information, pics, videos and nearly everything you read and see in this blog comes from there.

Chinese government don't want their citizens to get information. As usual, that's simply because they fear the great power of the population. But you cannot tame a whole world. I hope a revolution comes soon to free chinese people, and if that revolution is coming from a private company I think it's also the time to change revolutions.

I tend to think we can all do this peacefully and information is the greatest weapon of all times. Thanx internet for that.

FREE GOOGLE IN CHINA!!!!!!!!!

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Happy Birthday Triumph

As you can see in Triumph's website they are celebrating 20 years at Hinckley. No need to say this is a great new as we have seen a reborn legend continue growing through the years. I wish you twenty times twenty years!