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Up the hill.

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Thirsty.

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1972 Ford Maverick.

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Aston, James, M.

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13 January 202013 January 2020

Intelligence.

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10 January 20209 January 2020

Slippery.

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8 January 20207 January 2020

1927 Harley Davidson.

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Mino.

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1958 Piaggio Vespa 400.

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  • Up the hill.
  • Thirsty.
  • 1972 Ford Maverick.
  • Aston, James, M.
  • Intelligence.
  • Slippery.
  • 1927 Harley Davidson.
  • Mino.
  • 1958 Piaggio Vespa 400.
  • Bob and Al.
  • MZ TS 250.
  • 1982 Ford Capri.
  • Husky 250.
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“Season highlights”: BMW R NINE T URBAN G/S. Pic courtesy of @josephfortebraccio Riding gear by @fuelmotorcycles Boots by @tcxboots #theriver #bmwrninet #bmwmotorrad #riding #makelifearide #bmwrninetscrambler #bmwrninetworldwide #scrambler #fuelmotorcycles #tcxboots
1959 Tojeiro Jaguar. #tojeirojaguar #lemans24 #ecurieecosse #jaguar
Jude Law. #alfie #remake #vespa #stylish #judelaw
Honestly I never heard before about this two artists but sure I know the albums have great motoring covers. #recordcover
Tommaso Piccirilli. Il “re di Vallelunga”. #anotherera #seventies #pilota #brave #vallelunga #vintageracing #classicmotorcycle #motorcycles
I’m not here to deny the negative sides of the Seventies. Every decade had its troubles and contradictions. For sure this Chevrolet truck guzzled gallons of fuel and was deadly in a crash. But, damn, who cares? It’s so cool. #onthebeach #chevrolet #truck #surf #classictruck #whocares
“Season highlights”: BMW R NINE T URBAN G/S. Pic courtesy of @josephfortebraccio Riding gear by @fuelmotorcycles Boots by @tcxboots #theriver #bmwrninet #bmwmotorrad #riding #makelifearide #bmwrninetscrambler #bmwrninetworldwide #scrambler #fuelmotorcycles #tcxboots
A proper picnic. #lordbrettsinclair #rogermoore #picnic #unionjack #elegance #cool #thepersuaders
SOICHIRO HONDA. Most important human being in the motor cycles history? #legend #soichirohonda #hondamotorcycles
1967 FORD MUSTANG GT FASTBACK. #mustang #fordmustang #fastback #fordmustanggtfastback #classiccars #classicamericancars
Francois Cevert. #formula one #anotherera
Thruxton. #caferacer #triumph #thruxton #classicmotorcycle
“SHADES OF RED”. Yesterday I took the old boxer and wandered through the flatlands around the river Po. There are few things that make me happier than riding at sedate speed on empty backroads, far from touristic itineraries and/or more celebrate locations, stopping for a coffee or a beer in little villages with less inhabitants year after year ( like the signs in the Far West movies: pop: 315. Cancelled. 314 ), having a vague idea of my itinerary but ready to change it at the next crossroad. Taking little lateral paths that often become dirtroads and that force me to stop after a while cause I ride a street bike. Or stopping in the middle of nowhere looking at nothing thinking about nothing. Or slowing down to follow an heron sudden flight. Or staying half an hour in a little bar of a village, like yesterday, talking with three old men, the younger being 82 years old. Or looking at all this empty houses in the village. Villages that are slowly dying. No more food shops. No newspapers of course. Sometimes a cheap new pizza shop. Last to die is often the bar in central square, in front of the church. Foggy streets with just ghosts slowly passing by, going nowhere. But I love these landscapes. Little shacks on the river where to eat local receipts. Castles. Old, immense farms, built with red bricks, that are like small towns, with a church inside. And canals, torrents, tiny lakes, swamps. Yesterday I rode to the village where my grand father ( the father of my mother ) was born. Old Marquis searching for his roots? Maybe. I stopped the BMW in the central square, entered the bar. The bar - here too - was held by chinese women. I talked to old people, as I said. Then walked in the empty streets. On a wall there were the marks of the water level of the three baddest flows of the river Po in the last century. Last one in 1994. First floors totally under water level. I saw beautiful old rural buildings in the little downtown streets. Some for sell. A three floors house here costs like a tiny garage in Milano. I noted a few phone numbers. I felt like a bunch of ancestors and the Great Father, the Po river, were calling me. #theriver
“Season highlights”: HONDA MONKEY 125. •incredibly cool. And incredibly how confortably I fitted my 6feet3inches frame on this bike. #honda #cool #hondamonkey #milano #motorcycle #motorbike
Gelande/Strasse. #bmwr80gs #bmwmotorrad #icon #classicenduro #eighties #classicmotorcycle #bmwboxer
Ace. #sting #quadrophenia #wearemods #modernism #thewho #ace #piaggio #piaggiovespa #vespags
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