Engine Punk

People are complaining about it already but it's a cracking film. I saw it Plymuff on Thursday nite and although there wasn't much a sense of occasion (nobody dressed up for instance) it was a very impressive film. Too many people will pick holes in it.  I could mention the the seven foot bloke pulling a supercharger off an engine with his bare hands but I won't.  The whole point is to revel in stuff and enjoy it, so I do. Mad Max Fury Road makes it easy. Great cars, great bikes, great stunts, a good story and action all the way. Mad Max has had its imitators before but this latest incarnation (see what I did there?) will surely spawn a who lot more. Got see it! It's got the last of the V8 Interceptors in it.

Although the weather was much kinder to us this year, I missed most of the Calstock Bike Show for 2009. But I was running late for the right reasons - I'd been in my garage-cum-studio making a Vintage Thing come back to life. More of that some other time. Anyway, when I pitched up in Calstock the party was in full swing - it was just that most of the bikes had gone home. It was starting to get dark,too. So I had a look around and it struck me how many trikes there were. I am ambivalent about motorcycle-derived trikes. They have all the disadvantages of cars and bikes with few of the advantages. I firmly believe that dynamically the single wheel should be at the back and the centre of gravity as low as possible. These convictions don't stop me liking these oddities, though. Take this example, frinstance. It's a yellow shaft drive XS Yamaha with an axle across its behind but it's one of those vehicular contrivances that reveal more the more you look. I fell into conversat...