The old minaret adjacent to St Nikolaos church is a perfect reminder of the way the East met the West in the town I made my home, Chania, Crete, Greece.
The photographs I post all help to tell a part of a longer story that focuses on the town and its citizens, whether they are living there now, or have made their home in other parts of the world. As a newer resident, by writing about the town in this way, I am trying to put some order into the chaos that I seem to be confronted with.
Tuesday, 30 December 2008
Pillion passenger
A rare sight, becoming scarcer by the day: a motorbike with a pillion passenger's seat.
Pillion passengers are now expected to be dollies who sit pearched on the extreme end of the seat. That BMW looks to be an early one with leading link front fork from the late Sixties. Nice chair (sidecar). Referring back to gas cans - ours is almost done at two and half months due to cold - it works if shaken. It's been below zero here this morning. Perfectly dry and bright though.
Cooking only. We have recently started using the oil central heating once more now that the price has come down. The electric radiators are less of an option compared. We also have a wood burning stove if an outage stops everything else.
This kind of bike is the first memory i have of a "big" motor-bike. A builder used to have one in our neighbourhood and you could hear him well before he would turn at the corner (the exact oposite of a lightning bolt :-D ). When his wife was not occupying the seat, he would put there the tools of the trade.
It seems a bit tricky to drive though...Not as carefree as simply riding the bike :-D
Indeed a rare sight here in Australia too! But bikie groups offering tourists bike rides to scenic spots are diving into the pillion culture!
ReplyDeletePillion passengers are now expected to be dollies who sit pearched on the extreme end of the seat.
ReplyDeleteThat BMW looks to be an early one with leading link front fork from the late Sixties. Nice chair (sidecar).
Referring back to gas cans - ours is almost done at two and half months due to cold - it works if shaken. It's been below zero here this morning. Perfectly dry and bright though.
The thing to look for are footpegs for a pillion. I don't know how Denise Nesbitt manages on their sporty bike.
ReplyDeleteCooking only. We have recently started using the oil central heating once more now that the price has come down. The electric radiators are less of an option compared. We also have a wood burning stove if an outage stops everything else.
ReplyDeleteWhen my daughters first saw it, a few months ago, they found it very strange and they called it "ancient thing"!
ReplyDeleteNice old "coffee can" BMW!
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year, Friend; Aloha-
This kind of bike is the first memory i have of a "big" motor-bike. A builder used to have one in our neighbourhood and you could hear him well before he would turn at the corner (the exact oposite of a lightning bolt :-D ). When his wife was not occupying the seat, he would put there the tools of the trade.
ReplyDeleteIt seems a bit tricky to drive though...Not as carefree as simply riding the bike :-D