Tea Room

Not too bad looking for a place built in the 1920s. Last Thursday I went out on the bike for a run up towards Callander,and then headed to Aberfoyle via the Dukes Pass. On that route you pass through a place called Brig O Turk, which has an old Tea Room (Cafe). It had been closed for a while, but I had heard it had re opened earlier this year and was looking forward to see how the placed looked now. Well on the outside it still had its original look, wooden hut with a few windows and painted green. The inside had more or less kept its original look, but fresher looking (and smelling)with new tables etc. So I was glad to see it hadn't changed too much, well other than the food, its 100% better. I think I'll be stopping off a few more times before the years out. Stuck for somewhere to stop for a bite when out and about look here

Triumph Trophy TR5

1947 Triumph TR5, spotted this on here

Tim "Twister" Hastings

Tim rides in the Metzeler National Superstock 600 championship, and as a bit of a fund raiser Ashley Enright has put up one of her prints on canvas as a raffle prize. I hope a lot of you will join in with the raffle, best of luck! Your chance to win this great canvas print of Tim "Twister" Hastings, and help out the team, see details

The print, the prize!

Tim just after some track testing on Friday, pic by John Mclean By Ashley Enright When Tim Hastings announced that there was a chance he wouldn’t be able to finish the 2012 Metzeler National Superstock season I was surprised and wanted to do something to help get him back where he belongs - on track within the BSB series. I had one of my photographs of Tim printed onto a 30"x20" canvas for Team Twister to raffle to raise funds in the hope that they can compete in the final three rounds of the season. The photograph was taken at Brands Hatch in April 2011 and shows the “Fan Zone” containing names of supporters through the “Twister...Powered by Fans” campaign. I am offering the canvas as a raffle at £5 a ticket, so please show your support and message me with a name, phone number and how many tickets you’d like. Payment can be direct to the team at Donington or Silverstone, via the TeamTwister website at http://www.timhastingsracing.co.uk by clicking the paypal donate button or cheque. We are going to ask Fred Clarke to draw the winning name at the Silverstone BSB round.

Chang Jiang CJ750

The bike on the right, Chang Jiang 750, is a bike I've had since about 1999. I used it quite a lot the first six years and was fairly reliable, not like when the first owner had it with a breakdown nearly every trip. Might have something to do with having a bit of mechanical sympathy that I didn't have any major problems. Its been sitting with a cover over it for too long now so this Winter it'll be getting the once over and back on the road for Spring....... well thats the plan.

Friday Bike

Flat Tracker Zed

Spotted this Flat tracker/ Street tracker styled Zed while over in Germany for the Z1 40th anniversary rally at Edersee. There's a lot of nice work done to the bike, a lot you don't notice right away. Nice job!

Pre Historic Head Cam

John R Walker photo (above)

Back in the 70s/80s this was the way to get your on board footage, as you can see not as compact as the modern helmet cams. The batteries for it were carried in a back pack and weighed in at about 50lbs, this gave about enough power for one lap.... Rider is Lang Hindle, former Canadian Superbike Champion