On the road again

Fi spotted a link on Faceboak for a cafe racer meeting at South Queensferry on Friday so we went along to see what the fuss was about, en route we met a guy on a nice Suzuki cafe racer who asked if we were going, hmmm I thought , this could be busy. In the end it wasn't, some nice bikes but not many cafe racers, great to meet up with the Aberfeldy boys including Geoff Mumford and Mooner, they came down mob handed. Also met Monica a colleague of Fi's and educated her in the ways of motorcycle life. Strangely met up with more people from my past also, funny how things turn out.

Nice GT500 cafe racer (and loud!) Fi's choice of bike for the night behind

Geoff's Harris, nice and ripe for a sidecar!!!

Icons of British design

Katana and Kawa

Old airhead from the days when BMW nmeant quality

New Norton Dommi from the days when ........ oh never mind

Mildly racerised airhead

A brace of Nortons from the mighty Tay Valley NOC no less

Saturday we had a NOC weekend at Fort Augustus, I took the Commando and Fi took the Honda, funny we set off in summer gear but by the time we had passed the tourist hellhole of Bruar It turned cold so waterproofs were donned. When we stopped at Dalwhinnie for fuel the rain couldn't have been heavier so a stop for tea and some food was called for. The rain stopped as soon as we got into the cafe (of course) and started again as soon as we left (of course).

The roads cleared up though and we had a great run all the way along the Laggan road to just south of Fort Augustus when we got stuck behind some traffic, luckily the swing bridge was closed to let a huge ship through so we jumped to the start of the queue followed I noticed by another bike. As we turned of into the campsite it followed us and when we stopped it was none other than Geoff Mumford again! along with Heather out for a run, twice in a weekend, coincidence or what!

The Norton meeting was a quiet affair (quieter because of David forgetting the tent poles and therefore having to spend the equivalent of a small African country's GDP on a hotel to make things right with Anne!) but good craic and luckily we didn't get into the Legion after the pub closed so it was a reasonable head that greeted me Sunday.

Bert was masterchef for breakfast and after a while shooting the shit we all went our separate ways, another great weekend and really enjoyed the Norton but why did it have to rain on the way home as well????

Rain at Dalwhinnie

Fi still smiling

Phil's Norton (of course)

Jim's Norton

Bert serving Ewan

Any more before I close?