Scottish Classic club Autumn meet

A cloudy but dry start to the day and quite warm for this time of year which was good. Our run two up to St Fillans on the T3 Guzzi was enjoyable, dry roads and not too many lunatics. I like St Fillans, looking out over or riding along the side of Loch Earn always reminds me of Mandello looking over Lago Di Como (well apart from the people, the architecture and the weather) An excellent turn out and a superb mix of bikes, once again I met up with many people I hadn't seen in years which was great but with the numbers there it was a bit like speed dating, a paragraph then move on to the next friend, maybe we should think about an overnight meeting but then again I suppose when the drink kicks in nobody remembers who they spoke to anyway. Good turnout from the Tay Valley NOC which was great and a special mention for Don on his Dr John Daytona, last seen him on this bike in 2002 so I'm glad he managed to remove it from his house, one of only 20 imported to the UK! Also worth a mention was the Matchless Silver Hawk, a 26 degree V 4 build between 1930-34 , rarer than hens teeth. The one great thing about the day was that ALL the bikes were ridden there, no trailer Queens and that in my opinion is how it should be!

My T3 in exalted  company

Rare beast

Loch Earn

Derek Wilkies RGS BSA

A brace indeed of desirable BSA's

Fraser's Lightning, pretty

Cooking Matchy

Nice Rig

Shiny Velo

Singles seemed to be in today

Tony's take on a Falcone Nuovo

More BSA's

Rarer than an Aberdonian buying a round of drinks, Matchless Silver Hawk

Single Vincent

Shiny 650ss

Original T150 Trident

Sandy's Cammy Norton

Me like very much but I still have the mental scars from clutch pain when I had its fiercer brother the Jota

Blokes and Girls looking at bikes

What Sundays are for!

Jake, grupenfuhrer of the Falcone forum shadows us back home (sorry it's blurred Jake, taking live shots from the back of a T3 isn't easy :-)

Indian 4

I had to post this to show how sweet the bike runs, enjoy

Town Yetholm Norton meeting

So the annual meeting starring the mighty Tay Valley, Edinburgh and Northumbria branches has come around again so it must be September, unbelievable its been a year since the last one. We set off after work on Friday only to be confronted with rain, wind and crazy traffic on the Edinburgh bypass. Not a great start to the weekend however we got to Kelso and it dried out a bit and then even got our tent up dry!
Unfortunately the pub wasn't dry (in an alcoholic sense) and this meant we partook of copious amounts meaning Saturday was a bit fuzzy. Great to see everyone again, I had been secretly lusting after a Falcone recently (maybe just a phase) and Bert nephew Ian turned up on a mint example, Bert turned up on his "Indian Four" a masterpiece of engineering, I've seen it through the various stages and am very impressed by the workmanship. The fact it ran like a watch (a Swiss one rather than a dodgy rip off) made it all the more impressive. Toon and his pal from Belgium turned up on the Saturday after a week travelling around Scotland so it was great to see some younger guys along (not that any of us are older!!!)
Fantastic weekend with great company and old motorbikes, whats not to like.  

Guzzi's at rest, Fi was on the V11

A brace of Mk3 commandos

Alan, up from Hull on his ES2

Robin up from South of Manchester on his Fastback

Bert stole the show though

Campbell down from Aberdeen

Ian's new Falcone

Forfar John's fine Commando

Windy, Forfar John and Philly getting into it

Alan looks like he's getting out of it, good to see Robin back on the scene

Story telling

Just excellent no matter where you look

Sandy Bloy's sidestand modification

Not a bad part of the world

Kirk at Kirk Yetholm

Pretty

George Martin paid us a visit to drop some oil

Euan's sidestand mod, he though it might blow over!