Monday, 31 July 2023

Mercenary Garage

Lunar welding in the Mercenary Garage workshop - Photo Evan


Image - Evan


#Welding #Mercenary #MercenaryMotorcycles #MercenaryGarage

Tired Now

Tired Now

Image - Unknown


#TiredNow #ZombieBiker #MercenaryMotorcycles #MercenaryGarage #Mercenary

Sunday, 30 July 2023

Highway

Dusty Highway - Rishiraj Singh

Dusty Highway - Rishiraj Singh

Dusty Highway - Rishiraj Singh

Image - Rishiraj Singh


#Mercenary #MercenaryMotorcycles #MercenaryGarage

Saturday, 29 July 2023

Matrix

Trinity starts up her Ducati 996 in The Matrix (1999)
 

Image - via Tumblr


#TheMatrix #Matrix #Cyberpunk #Mercenary #MercenaryMotorcycles #MercenaryGarage

Wednesday, 26 July 2023

Sinéad O'Connor

 1966 - 2023

Sinéad O'Connor 1966 - 2023

Image - Unknown


#SineadOConnor #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage

Days of Thunderdome

Days of Thunderdome - Homemade Sin - Icon 1000

Image - via Icon1000 on Instagram


#Icon1000 #IconMotosports #HomemadeSin #Mercenary #MercenaryMotorcycles #MercenaryGarage

Tuesday, 25 July 2023

Pink Tape Akira Bike

Akira Power Bike - 2023 Pink Tape - Lil Uzi Vert

Image - Unknown


#PinkTape #Akira #AkiraBike #KanedaBike #Mercenary #MercenaryMotorcycles #MercenaryGarage

Monday, 24 July 2023

KLX

Kawasaki KLX Dirtbike Girl
 

Image - via tumblr


#Kawasaki #KLX #KawasakiKLX #Mercenary #MercenaryMotorcycles #MercenaryGarage




Sunday, 23 July 2023

Race Slabby

1986 Suzuki GSX-R750 Slabside AMA Superbike Race Bike


Image - via tumblr


#SuzukiSlabSide #GSXR #GSXR750 #Superbike #Mercenary #MercenaryMotorcycles #MercenaryGarage 

Saturday, 22 July 2023

Subira Classic Fantic 200

Custom Restomod Fantic 200 Twinshock Trials Bike by Subira Classic, Italy

Image - via subiraclassic on Instagram


#SubiraClassic #TwinshockTrials #Fantic200 #FantiTwinshock #ClassicTrials #VintageTrials #Mercenary #MercenaryMotorcycles #MercenaryGarage

Friday, 21 July 2023

Cyberpunk

Cyberpunk Girl - Image Unknown
 

Image - Unknown


#Cyberpunk #Mercenary #MercenaryMotorcycles #MercenaryGarage

Thursday, 20 July 2023

Tracker

Illustration - Benjamin Last


#TrackedMotorcycle #Mercenary #MercenaryMotorcycles #MercenaryGarage

Wednesday, 19 July 2023

VHS Wednesday - Wheels on Meals (1984)

Jackie Chan - Wheels on Meals (1984)


#JackieChan #MealsOnWheels #Mercenary #MercenaryMotorcycles #MercenaryGarage 

Tuesday, 18 July 2023

Helmet

Cyberpunk Dirt Bike Helmet


Image - Unknown


#Cyberpunk #Mercenary #MercenaryMotorcycles #MercenaryGarage

Monday, 17 July 2023

Near-Death

That Near Death Thing - Rick Broadbent
 

Image - That Near Death Thing by Rick Broadbent


#ThatNearDeathThing #IsleOfManTT #Mercenary #MercenaryMptprcycles #MercenaryGarage

Sunday, 16 July 2023

Turbo Slingshot

587 Horsepower Suzuki GSXR1100 Slingshot Custom Built Turbo Dragbike - Image via Abuso Racing Lisbon

Image via Abuso Racing Lisbon


#SusukiSlingshot #GSXR #GSXR1100 #AbusiRacing #Mercenary #MercenaryMotorcycles #MercenaryGarage

Saturday, 15 July 2023

Knee-Down

Knee Down BMW Cafe Racer

Image - via caferacersmagazine on instagram


#BMW #CafeRacer #Mercenary #MercenaryMotorcycles #MercenaryGarage

Friday, 14 July 2023

Riot Original

Riot Cycles Punk Rock Cafe Racer - Image John Pingry
 

Image - John Pingry via riotcycles on instagram


#RiotCycles #Mercenary #MercenaryMotorcycles #MercenaryGarage

Thursday, 13 July 2023

Blower Head

Captain Blower Head on his Harley WLA45 - Danny Huynh Creations
Image - Danny Huynh Creations


#DannyHuynhCreations #BlowerHead #WLA45 #Mercenary #MercenaryMotorcycles #MercenaryGarage

Wednesday, 12 July 2023

VHS Wednesday - Maxell (1983)

Maxell Blown Away - VHS Tape 500 Plays 1983 TV Commercial
 

Image - Maxell Commercial 1983


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Tuesday, 11 July 2023

Medicine Show

Big Audio Dynamite - Medicine Show (1986) - Note cameo appearances by Joe Strummer and Paul Simonon as the two cops and John Lydon firing an Uzi


#BigAudioDynamite #MedicineShow #Mercenary #MercenaryMotorcycles #MercenaryGarage

Comin' on Strong

Broken English - Comin' on Strong (1987) I still think this video is fantastic,. The last shot with the one guy going the wrong direction still kills me
 



#BrokenEnglish #ComingOnStrong #Mercenary #MercenaryMotorcycles #MercenaryGarage

Prime Mover

Zodiac Mindwarp and the Love Reaction Prime Mover (1988)- Weird Grunge Rock '80s Nostalgia



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Monday, 10 July 2023

Pink Tape

Lil Uzi Vert - Pink Tape 


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Sunday, 9 July 2023

Magic the Gathering

Magic The Gathering by Ryan Roadkill
 

Image - via ryanroadkill on instagram


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Saturday, 8 July 2023

Ratchop XS

Nice old-school XS650 Rat Chopper

Image via - ratbikebrazil on instagram


#RatBikeBrazil #XS650 #RatBike #Mercenary #MercenaryMotorcycles #MercenaryGarage

Wednesday, 5 July 2023

VHS Wednesday - Streets of Fire (1984)

The '80s were the first decade to really fuck around with Retro. Partly driven by boomer nostalgia and partly (and not unironically) driven by its own novelty, Retro pervasively infiltrated the mid-eighties zeitgeist. From fashion to music to movies, you can't really make sense of the eighties without understanding the influence of the '50s/'60s on popular culture at that time.

Some of those retro artifacts can be hard to parse from up here in the post-future. From such a distance it can be difficult to separate the style from the content. A good example of this is the movie Dirty Dancing. Ostensibly set in the 1950s with '50s cars and '50s clothes, the movie is overwhelmed by its own eightiesness with a synthy '80s soundtrack and an unmistakeably '80s cinematic style. Is it the '50s? Is it the '80s? Can a young modern audience even make that distinction?

Probably the best way to understand Retro is not as a literal historical reference to the period in question, but more a reference so some idealised version of that period. So the Wayfarer sunglasses and Levis jeans and Brando jackets that we wore in the actual '80s weren't really authentic recreations of the actual '60s, just references to a kind of Velvet Underground version of that decade. And similarly, modernday references to the the '80s aren't authentic either. They're just retro.

So this movie is Retro as fuck. It was made in 1984 and set in some other ambiguous time period - it's not important when but it looks a lot like the '50s but it sounds and feels a lot like the '80s. 

So, with that out of the way, Streets of Fire is a pretty good flick with cool bikes and '50s lead-sleds. It has a straightforward plot and some cartoonish violence and it has lots explosions and trenchcoats and pump-action shotties ('cos the '80s). It also has a pretty solid cast (including Lee Ving from LA hardcore band Fear), an eighties-tastic soundtrack and it's beautiful to look at.

What more could you want?

Streets of Fire (1984)



#VHSWednesday #StreetsOfFire #LeeVing #Retro #Mercenary #MercenaryMotorcycles #MercenaryGarage

Tuesday, 4 July 2023

08

Neon Genesis Evangelion EVA 08
 

Image -  Unknown


#NeonGenesisEvangelion #Mercenary #MercenaryMotorcycles #MercenaryGarage

Monday, 3 July 2023

Cyborg

Cyborg Illustration by TERU
 

Illustration - TERU


#Cyborg #Mercenary #MercenaryMotorcycles #MercenaryGarage

Sunday, 2 July 2023

CT-3X

Cyberpunk 2077 - Yaiba Kusanagi CT-3X Motorcycle

Cyberpunk 2077 - Yaiba Kusanagi CT-3X Motorcycle

Cyberpunk 2077 - Yaiba Kusanagi CT-3X Motorcycle


Images - Cyberpunk 2077


#Cyberpunk #Cyberpunk2077 #YaibaKusanagi #Mercenary #MercenaryMotorcycles #MercenaryGarage

Saturday, 1 July 2023

Gunship

Gunship
 

Image - Unknown


#Gunship #Mercenary #MercenaryMotorcycles #MercenaryGarage