Guzzi Lunch

 We had a Guzzi lunch meeting at Dunkeld yesterday, of course the roads out of Perth (and in Perth) are a disaster due to constant roadworks none of which will improve anything in future in my opinion but I digress. We took the Glenalmond to Sma Glen road and over Glen Quaich to Kenmore before heading South into Dunkeld. A pleasant lunch with a few nice Guzzi's in attendance, I didn't take many photos as it was raining to start with and although it was OK over the Quaich road it was not perfect for taking Photos but anyway you got enough last week! We had a taffic jam just out of Methven as some sheep were moving home, maybe 10 minutes but I would rather watch sheep flitting than being stuck on the A9 with the human sheep!

The Bull wasn't happy at his audience

Sheep Jam

Really nice Eldorado

Nick got rid of a modern Triumph to go down the Classic Guzzi route, clever man

Jake's yellow peril

Eric Holding court

A wee Sunday run

 Trying to get some miles on the V85's so we can get them serviced before our September trip so there may be more Modern Guzzi pics on here for a while but thats not a bad thing. The Norton's are ready for the Aberfoyle meeting in a fortnight and we have a Guzzi Dinner on Sunday which I was intended to use my Mk1 LeMans but the dual brakes seemed dodgy when I was out last week so I stripped the Master cylinder and then realised I had ordered the wrong rebuild kit (Not totally my fault) so now it'll be 3 weeks before it arrives!! For those that don't know the older Guzzi's have a linked braking system which I like, the front brake lever operated the front Right Disk and the footbrake operates the front Left disk and rear brake via a compensator valve effectively giving you a 70% front and 30% rear brake simultaneously. Like I say I like it, the V85 has modern brakes which are brembos , the front is great, the rear not so much, I am not a big user of rear brakes but on the rough stuff you need to control the rear and unfortunately the rear brake is not any better than an average 60's british bike! anyhow one of my few moans about the bike.

Onto photography, my other hobby and luckily the two go hand in hand, I have seen that recently Photoshop (a photo manipulation programme) has an Artificial Intelligence tool which allows you to manipulate your photos at a click of a mouse. Before photos could be manipulated in the earlier days by the development process and now in the digital process by programmes like Photoshop, but now even an idiot can produce the most amazing photographs without ever having been there, so the ultimate thing is that you don't have to go anywhere to take photo's, just make it up in your mind, click on the mouse and there's a picture of your bike anywhere you want , even the moon!

I for one will not be going down this route so you can be assured the mediocre photos on here were taken by Fiona or me using a camera and having ridden our bikes there to take it. I consider photos to be the most important part of social history (I love old photos) and will continue to document our motorcycling in the old fashioned way 

Get out there, ride your bike and make sure you take photos! We did yesterday over Glenquaich!

Loving this view 

Braw day

Happy Fiona

Heading into Kenmore

Perfect

And the bikes aren't bad either

And the company neither!

Sidecar meeting video

 A short video of the sidecar meeting and the ride to and from there, posted here in case you missed it on youtube!

Sidecar meeting

 Normally we are in the south of Ireland at a Norton meeting this weekend but because of different circumstances we couldn't make it and instead traveled up to Dalvaich for Norrie Miltons sidecar do. Great run up on Friday after work with a chippy stop at Comrie and then to Tyndrum and to Taynuilt before working our way down to Dalvaich. Tent up whilst fighting the incredibly aggressive midges and then a couple of beers in the bar before fighting with the midges again, matter of fact they never let up all night! Saturday we got the banter and watched the guys go out on the run whilst waiting for Budge and John to appear, more nonsense talked and then we all came down the road together leaving the sidecar boys to take their share of the midgie bites!! Traffic was busy as I've seen it on the A82, hopefully it calms down over the summer but I doubt it! Hopefully we will get a short video out soon!

  

Heading north west into the setting sun

Bonnie night

Nonsense being talked

BMW outfit

Norrie "The gaffer" Milton

Guzzi T3 outfit

Very red outfit with a very red tent! 32L fuel tank is the biz 

Similar to our old outfit

Getting ready for the off

Latecomer charging in

And they're off

Red

Red

Red, seems to be a theme

Johnny T  and Budge, enjoying the day out

Look clouds!

But stunning views

Budge passing the camera bike

And John doing the same

Scottish classic club mid month meeting

 An additional meeting at Pitcairngreen Inn Last night and since its very local we decided to go, Fi had her first run on The John player for a while and as always managed all its foibles very well, I took the 750 Fastback which seems to be going great as well, hopefully they will be good for the Norton meeting at Aberfoyle next Month. I didn't take enough photos but enjoy what i did take anyway.

Frasers very nice Hornet

Boss Hog's Guzzi (now rollerised)

A selection of bikes

Seems to be very popular these days

Mk2 LeMans

Our Nortons hogging prime spot with a Trident Interloper

Just caught this 1000 Laverda as It passed

Suzuki 500 twin

And an X7

A well prepared Vincent 

Morocco, the movie

 A movie we put together after the Morocco trip, its over an hour long so you might get bored but we like it and that's what matters.

And Home

 Oh well that was 3800 miles well spent, good roads, good laugh and the bikes performed well, at one point in Morocco the bike was showing 420 miles to a tankful which is my idea of heaven. Feeling a bit tired and a bit spaced out as we come down from Bike lag but thats to be expected. The temperature wasn't in our favour for our last two nights camping at the Guzzi rally, probably a step too far!

As always we met great people and learned a lot of things which is the main point of travelling. Get out there and enjoy it, i'm sure you'd like it, finishing off this trip with a few photos to remind myself (ourselves) of what it was all about. I will write up a full story soon and eventually put it in a tab at the top of this page. 

  

Camel frenzy

Old pals surprise meeting

1st beer in Spain after Ramadan, or surprise meeting with beer!

High Atlas

And again

Fi taking it in her stride

Sahara camel frenzy

where to go?

Tea in the Sahara

Sunrise

Stunning

Fi leaving our digs in Merzouga

Dades Gorge

Fi's new pal!

Strange

Monkeys crossing road

camel frenzy again

Camping in Scotland at the Guzzi rally