So another year another Scottish Rally, always great fun with nice people, after losing a fair bit of money last year it was decided to cut it down to two nights for the first time. To be honest two nights is enough for me these days and if we stayed on the Friday we were always a bit jaded after the Friday and Saturday night. Unlike the NOC who think that its OK to charge a huge amount of cash for Rally's for not much, I am glad to see the Guzzi club are thinking straight and keep it good value for money, and more importantly have so far staying away from becoming a Limited Company which entails the hard working volunteers becoming "Directors", this then leads to some people getting above themselves and getting an elevated view of their worth.
The Scottish Guzzi club is an excellent example of how you can run a friendly club and annual rally and under the stewardship of Ian McKay in my mind it's going from strength to strength. Of course having a very saleable lineup of Bikes helps bring in new and younger members which in turn helps the thing along.
The other Volunteers did a grand job of keeping it on track over the weekend, Mo and Donald despite stepping down officially are still doing far more than their bit and I for one , ok Fiona and I for two thank them, Rogan and Dave Breeze were also seen working hard over the weekend behind the scenes. Jim Allen Motorcycles had an open day on Saturday and laid in free tea and coffee and food for the attendees as well as some nice raffle prizes. Fi and I visited the Korean War memorial which is nearby to pay our respect to Fiona's Great Uncle who lost his life in that conflict at the age of 19.
Saturday night was brilliant with the band Audiorayz playing a superb selection of covers which kept the dancefloor busy all night.
A great weekend motorcycling, meeting old pals and getting to know new ones, Is that not what life is about? ...... And it didnae rain (very much) Woo Hoo
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| Andy from Turriff on the bike that won best Patina award |
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| Charles, my next door neighbour for the weekend |
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| Look, late evening sunshine |
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| Gavin, our North of Scotland organiser watching Andy's grass skills |
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| Tent's up, Mo keeping Fiona of her mattress blowing up duties |
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| Not sure what was going on, 2 rear wheels? |
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| Korean war memorial |
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| The rally field, plenty tents |
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| again |
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| Guzzi talk? |
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| V100 |
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| Seen this before, not everybody's cup of tea but quality Luggage nonetheless |
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| An earlier V85 |
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| Cannae escape |
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| Tea time |
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| Older Stelvio |
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| a well used V7 |
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| V100 in Green |
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| Cali's were numerous |
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| Nicer older Cali |
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| Jake and Ali, just down from the pre 65 |
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| another cali |
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| Best Bike award goes to Nick |
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| Alan's Saturday steed ( he brought his V100 Friday and then went hame to walk the dug |
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| Much Cali chat |
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| This outfit was interesting |
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| Home made trailing fork |
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| Very clever and works a treat |
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| New Stelvio, don't like the Stelvio Graphics, reminds me of stick on letters you get from the hardware store |
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| Gavins 1400 Audace (means Bold or spirited) |
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| A regular attender |
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| V85's, common as muck |
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| Saturday night nonsense being talked |
