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In the spirit of this quaint men-on-motorcycles-enthusiast blog I went to watch The Bikeriders and had my heart quietly broken by a slow but softly luminous movie. Something about men's expansive lives and how movement is ultimately the seed from which all freedom grows. When you see Tom Hardy's Johnny slowly strain and crack under the realization that something he created out of simpler desires is now turning into a hydra headed problem he can't seem to solve, you understand something about existing in a world where your need for belonging is a vulnerability that eventually gets you.

When he asks Austin Butler's Benny about taking over the gang from him he's submitting himself to someone he trusts. Their faces slowly coming together, closer and closer, in the dark with just the incandescent glow of the streetlamps on the edge of their faces, like burning paper. How Benny is too stubborn to understand that its not a favor being asked of him, but a declaration of something deeper from Johnny. What a beautiful narrative choice it was to have a woman recollect this entire story of this rag-tag group of men, who herself was affected by the atmosphere she found herself unable to get out of. I love that it works like a non-judgemental narration of how quickly boyhood bluster breaks down when real life circumstances get rough. How difficult it was for Johnny to keep the community together because he didn't expect it to be anything more than a quaint cosplay when he started it to escape boredom. At the end where Benny finally gets the news of Johnny's murder, something done to usurp his frayed authority, and he returns to Chicago and breaks down on Kathy's stoop, I found myself crying alongside him.

The movie was clearly a labour of love from someone who had deep fascination with the lives of these men and with motorcycles. Wild that a two wheeled liquid fuel powered machine has been the site of so many meditations on masculinity and rebellion and anger and power and authority. I don't know if I want to revisit it but I am glad I got to watch it in the time period of my life that my deep fascination with bikes and men's lives makes it so much more valuable to me.

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I want him on Tumblr so bad....

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Dyke (geology), Sabrina Imbler

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Some of the books Cyril owns:

The man likes jazz, cooking, plants, and skateboard. And alcohol.

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*gazes off into the distance* @topnotchquark? I haven’t heard that name in years.

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no but the way the minimum weight for a motogp bike is 157 kilograms (345 pounds) and 5'7 marc routinely dead lifts his bikes out of the gravel after crashes. sir you are an ant

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Nico Rosberg called Lewis by reporter (video in Italian)

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Moka-chan ga oshiette kureta, ironna mita meninare appuri nandatte, dore dore fabio... idk why i made this but i love it

also can be used in an edit if you mute it ig 🤥

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PORTIMAO 2024 | Pecco Bagnaia congratulating Enea Bastianini on his podium in the Ducati garage.

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A multiple times motorsport world champion, often regarded as the best in their category, suddenly changing teams they had won over and over with, in a huge upset, to join a red colored Italian manufacturer, in 2025, to become teammates with a European pretty boy who grew up dreaming of the said red team. Am I talking about Marc to Ducati alongside Pecco or Lewis to Ferrari alongside Charles.

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A butterfly makes its way past Marc in Aragón, 2017 🦋

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The great American roadtrip au where bezz is going coast to coast in an old ass trailer he borrowed from mr trailer park king Valentino Rossi himself because of a bad break up with his dog and no one else. San Francisco is the destination in mind because Luca and Pecco live together there and for all intents and purposes nothing else is on Bezz’s mind except crashing on their couch there and dying, maybe. Try his luck there, get high off his ass if not. Skate a lot. Walk his dog and meet someone that way. Cry, a lot, as much as he hates to admit it. The trailer breaks down in a middle of nowhere town in like uhhhh fucking Tennessee and he has to spend all of his five bucks to call a tow and ends up in the mechanic’s shop in town where Celestino, Repairer Extraordinaire of Four by Fours and Excavators, works. It’s puppy love at first sight baby.

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2024 Jerez, the return of the king

From Manu Tormo

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Fabio Quartararo on the podium after winning his home race at Le Mans in the second round of the 2014 Moto3 Junior World Championship

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If this story about Marc Marquez that is lighting up Twitter is remotely true then we really have hit a new low.

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Not going to gloat about the general elections because things can still change but but the looks of it, Buddh International Circuit might never hold a MotoGP round again, and that's a sacrifice I am more than happy to make.