Wishing You a Positive, Energetic and Enthusiastic New Year...
#GPZ1100 #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage
Tuesday, 31 December 2013
Bring It On
Wishing You a Positive, Energetic and Enthusiastic New Year...
#GPZ1100 #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage
Sunday, 29 December 2013
Turbo-Drift-Tracker
Suzuki Bandit Turbo-Drift-Tracker much?
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#SuzukiBandit #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage
Tuesday, 24 December 2013
Monday, 23 December 2013
Crazy Santa Claus Motorcycle Stunts
This is deadly!
#JorianPonomareff #MerryChristmas #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage
#JorianPonomareff #MerryChristmas #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage
Dirty Old Times
"Dirty Old Times" Teaser from OVER/EASY FILMS on Vimeo.
#DirtyOldTimes #Husqvarna #Mercenary #MercenaryGArage
Women's Moto Exhibit
Image by Lanakila MacNaughton
#LanakilaMacNaughton #WomensMotoExhibit #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage
Sunday, 22 December 2013
Joe Strummer
21 August 1952 – 22 December 2002
Today is the eleventh anniversary of the death of Joe Strummer. I'm still sad about that...
#JoeStrummer #Strummerville #WWJSD #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage
Today is the eleventh anniversary of the death of Joe Strummer. I'm still sad about that...
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Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistance. Talent will not. There is nothing more common then unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not. Unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not. The world if full of educated derelicts. Persistence and Determination alone are Omnipotent. |
#JoeStrummer #Strummerville #WWJSD #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage
D Boon
April 1, 1958 – December 22, 1985
#Minutemen #DBoon #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage
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"Punk is whatever we made it to be." |
#Minutemen #DBoon #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage
Dublin Couriers
This is a very short student documentary about Dublin Couriers. It looks like it was shot in the late 80's and it gets across some of the character of the industry.
Couriers were generally regarded as a law unto themselves and were simultaneously loathed and depended-upon in approximately equal measure. It was a funny sort of business...
The Courier Companies tried to come across as legitimate business enterprises but the couriers themselves were regarded as independent contractors rather than employees and the companies actually had very little control over them. So couriers didn't generally pay Income Tax or Social Insurance and many didn't bother with Road Tax or Motor Insurance!
From the mid-eighties until the mid-nineties when the Celtic Tiger Economy began to take off, there was massive unemployment in Ireland. But there was also a perfectly functional and thriving economy of Banks, Architects, Solicitors, Printers and Small Businesses. - There was money about, it just wasn't evenly distributed*.
This was long before email and electronic banking and all those businesses could afford to pay to get stuff moved in a hurry.
So from the ranks of unemployed youth rose a number (generally between 500 and 1000 at any given time) of opportunistic, anarchic punks on motorbikes to exploit this situation. And there was constant tension.
There was tension between the Clients who wanted high speed at low cost and the Courier Companies who were trying to meet unreasonable demands with an unreasonable workforce.
There was tension between the Base-Controllers, whose main concern was urgency, and the Couriers, whose main concern was efficiency (and fun and beer and drugs and other distractions).
And there was tension between the Receptionists and the Couriers with whom they dealt face to face - The Receptionists were concerned with things like politeness, tardiness, cleanliness and rainwater-puddles on their desks. The Couriers didn't give a fuck about any of that - all they cared about was NOT WAITING!
At the time, Dublin was abuzz. It was like a gold-rush. There were great bars and the best music and cheap beer, drugs and petrol. It was an exciting time to be young and alive and driving a motorcycle for a living.
*It's still like that in Ireland now, only it's much more polarised.
#DublinCouriers #UnderTheHelmet #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage
Couriers were generally regarded as a law unto themselves and were simultaneously loathed and depended-upon in approximately equal measure. It was a funny sort of business...
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Evan on an XL600M, disregarding a red light in the interest of Irish economic prosperity.
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The Courier Companies tried to come across as legitimate business enterprises but the couriers themselves were regarded as independent contractors rather than employees and the companies actually had very little control over them. So couriers didn't generally pay Income Tax or Social Insurance and many didn't bother with Road Tax or Motor Insurance!
From the mid-eighties until the mid-nineties when the Celtic Tiger Economy began to take off, there was massive unemployment in Ireland. But there was also a perfectly functional and thriving economy of Banks, Architects, Solicitors, Printers and Small Businesses. - There was money about, it just wasn't evenly distributed*.
This was long before email and electronic banking and all those businesses could afford to pay to get stuff moved in a hurry.
So from the ranks of unemployed youth rose a number (generally between 500 and 1000 at any given time) of opportunistic, anarchic punks on motorbikes to exploit this situation. And there was constant tension.
There was tension between the Clients who wanted high speed at low cost and the Courier Companies who were trying to meet unreasonable demands with an unreasonable workforce.
There was tension between the Base-Controllers, whose main concern was urgency, and the Couriers, whose main concern was efficiency (and fun and beer and drugs and other distractions).
And there was tension between the Receptionists and the Couriers with whom they dealt face to face - The Receptionists were concerned with things like politeness, tardiness, cleanliness and rainwater-puddles on their desks. The Couriers didn't give a fuck about any of that - all they cared about was NOT WAITING!
At the time, Dublin was abuzz. It was like a gold-rush. There were great bars and the best music and cheap beer, drugs and petrol. It was an exciting time to be young and alive and driving a motorcycle for a living.
*It's still like that in Ireland now, only it's much more polarised.
#DublinCouriers #UnderTheHelmet #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage
Saturday, 21 December 2013
Hide Motorcycle - Glory
This is a lovely little movie about nothing in particular. Enjoy...
#HideMotorcycle #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage
#HideMotorcycle #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage
Friday, 20 December 2013
Old Delhi Motorcycles
Insightful and charming, this is as much a movie about India's transition from colonial past to economic powerhouse as it is an homage to the India Enfield Bullet.
Beautifully shot, if you have twenty minutes, it's worth a watch...
#OldDelhiMotorcycles #RoyalEnfield #EnfieldIndia #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage
Beautifully shot, if you have twenty minutes, it's worth a watch...
#OldDelhiMotorcycles #RoyalEnfield #EnfieldIndia #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage
Thursday, 19 December 2013
The Sprocket Thief
This is a great, fun little movie. It features Polish stunt-rider Ewa Pieniakowska and is very much in the weird, apocalyptic style that's come to be associated with Icon.
Check it out...
#EwaStunts #EwaPieniakowska #IconMotosports #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage
Check it out...
#EwaStunts #EwaPieniakowska #IconMotosports #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage
.jpg "Niko et Laurie")
Wednesday, 18 December 2013
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