Moto Guzzi Scottish Rally

 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

Andy from Turriff on the bike that won best Patina award

Charles, my next door neighbour for the weekend

Look, late evening sunshine

Gavin, our North of Scotland organiser watching Andy's grass skills 

Tent's up, Mo keeping Fiona of her mattress blowing up duties

Not sure what was going on, 2 rear wheels?

Korean war memorial

The rally field, plenty tents

again

Guzzi talk?

V100

Seen this before, not everybody's cup of tea but quality Luggage nonetheless

An earlier V85

Cannae escape 

Tea time

Older Stelvio

a well used V7

V100 in Green

Cali's were numerous

Nicer older Cali

Jake and Ali, just down from the pre 65

another cali

Best Bike award goes to Nick

Alan's Saturday steed ( he brought his V100 Friday and then went hame to walk the dug

Much Cali chat

This outfit was interesting

Home made trailing fork

Very clever and works a treat

New Stelvio, don't like the Stelvio Graphics, reminds me of stick on letters you get from the hardware store

Gavins 1400 Audace (means Bold or spirited)

A regular attender

V85's, common as muck

Saturday night nonsense being talked