Classic Festival - Pukekohe

[Chooky]

Nother one from the stand....

[Ixion]

so who won LOL

Sorry. Cosworth. Got Weslake on the brain. The Britten won, but the Konig was gaining fast. Another couple of laps, and a different result maybe.

[Ixion]

Great Day out, good to see Dodgie up and about on his Guzzi after his boating incident.

I saw Ixions bike at the track side of the ovehead walkway...with lots of straw on it....

Hot dogs and chips were yummy.....can't wait for Paeora racing.....RSA, chips, hot dog and Waikato for lunch....oh and racing.

I rocked up to some dude on a black and gold Darmah and said, "J'essai que vous etes Monsieur Voltaire, bonjour". And he just looked at me with a WTF expression. Must be another one of them around.

[Motu]

Did you take the GT500 today Les? I saw a red one in the bike park.I saw you stuffing your face,but was busy talking to someone else.Man,I saw some people today! I'd bump into someone,turn around and there would be someone behind me.Big Dave was riding around on a 250cc Rocket 3...well,it looked like a 250 with him on it.I parked my bike up on the hill hidden amongst some Guzzi's.

The only bikes that made me pull my camera out was this Trident streettracker and the Norton Rotary.

[Ixion]

Yes . That was me. Scrap iron yesterday and Jap crap today. I looked at all the airheads I could see, but none of them looked perverted or mongrelised to be designated as Motued. You must have hidden well.

Did you see the Stornello? How's your's getting on.

[Voltaire]

I rocked up to some dude on a black and gold Darmah and said, "J'essai que vous etes Monsieur Voltaire, bonjour". And he just looked at me with a WTF expression. Must be another one of them around.

WTF.... I only spoke to a some guys by the Darmah when I arrived, somehow I think I'd recall someone asking me in French if I was Voltaire?.....
However I don't recall seeing another Darmah.
Next Sunday....I'll be wearing a trilby with a copy of the Evening Standard under ny left arm with a red rose thru my left lapel.
The code phrase is " terribly nice day for a spin on the 500GTL"
and I reply " I hope you brought the multi meter"

[Motu]

Yes,I had it well hidden...although there was a GS and R100 nearby to keep it company.I distributed Stornello pictures with the Guzzi types...and left the R65 next to the Guzzi's to discuss air cooling,twin cylinders,2 valves and pushrods etc.....I expect electrics were quietly ignored in their conversation.

I saw no GT750's this year,normally there are about half a dozen.A couple of nice really well used K75's,and one nice K75 trike.Airheads I have ignored for years,today they all got checked out.It's good to expand your horizons.

[Ixion]

Ah, but you was up on the Hill. I wouldn't go up there , that's the snobs up there, wouldn't do for the likes of me to be pushing my way in there, I knows my place I does.

Bugger all two smokers at all, Phoebe was lonely.

I wasn't going to take her, I was going to take the scrap iron collection again, but when I did a quick round the block , just to start it up, for some reaon she decided that today was a good day and that she would run really well. Two smokers are like women , temperamental, and when you encounter one that's in the mood you don't want to waste the opportunity.

Lots of Harleys, you wouldn't think they'd be interested, would you. But, conversely, bugger all metric crusiers.

I liked the little Ambassador Villiers trials bike. And there was a nice neat D1 Bantam whizzing about, ridden by a young bloke (with girl friend) who seemed to be having a truck load of fun. I'm sure the Bantam was the funnest bike ever made.

There was also a Guzzi Context or Converse or some such name, never seen one before, I really liked it. Very angular styling, if the Ancient Greeks had made bikes they'd have looked like that. Some of those 650 Guzzis too, they always look neat and tidy, I wonder if they are any good. I think I'm going all pushrod.

Saturday, I desparately needed moar water, I nearly expired. So today I made sure I had moar moar water. I ended up guzzling three big bottles of water and three cans of V , and needed every drop.

[Big Dave]

What sort of Cosworth is it Ix?

[Kickaha]

What sort of Cosworth is it Ix?

Probably this one
http://www.khulsey.com/motorcycles/_...750_racer.html

[dangerous]

There was also a Guzzi Context or Converse or some such name, never seen one before, I really liked it. Very angular styling, if the Ancient Greeks had made bikes they'd have looked like that. Some of those 650 Guzzis too, they always look neat and tidy, I wonder if they are any good. I think I'm going all pushrod.

Thats 'Convert' ya bloody wally... and they came in automatic's 1000cc

The 650's were all 4valve heads, fast and grunty but did have issues as there was a lot going on in them wee heads, most will be sorted by now Id think.


opps sorry ya got me

[Ixion]

NAh, didn't look like any of them, they just look ordinary. This was all sort of squareish. And grey. Yeah , Convert, that's what it said, knew it was something like. And it said 1100cc. Had nice neat coordinated panniers too. Also square. Very square.

'N some pictures, not of Guzzis though. (oh yeah, there is one )

Lots'a boikes
Very nice 61 Bonnie. Envy.
Nice old Squariel, prewar
Moto Guzzi
Elderly Douglas. Seemed to go OK . It's cylinders are even mor eperverted than a Moto Guzzi
Now THAT'S targeted advertisng. How did they know what I was riding?

[Motu]

Wasn't that one with the black heat wrap on the 2 into 1 was it? Not what I'd call tidy at all....I had to go back for a 2nd and 3rd look at that one.I was impressed,I always like well ridden bikes,rather than well cleaned bikes.

[Ixion]

Couple more

It's a diesel
This guy was having more fun than anyone. Bantams are the funnest bike ever made

[Ixion]

Wasn't that one with the black heat wrap on the 2 into 1 was it? Not what I'd call tidy at all....I had to go back for a 2nd and 3rd look at that one.I was impressed,I always like well ridden bikes,rather than well cleaned bikes.

Nay, I saw that one too. The Converty thingy was squarey. And grey. All greyey and squarey and Guzzi

Did yoiu see the Triumph combo. Complete with full size tow hitch. Started out as a pre unit Tbird. Now THAT looked like it had travelled far, and hard. Respect. (It was grey too. But not squarey)