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Nitpicking... Macro. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macro_photography Sorry.... PS: I've got a couple of fairly good Macro lenses for my old Pentax Spotmatic camera bodies, and they are really good fun.

True, but not all of them. The German forum has a couple of members in their early twenties who have '80s Guzzis. One of them only introduced himself today, i.e. brand new member. He's bought himself a Le Mans 1000, is delighted with it, and is only 25 years old. There is hope...

Man, would I love to have that. Impossible to get it registered here, but who cares. I hope you find someone who appreciates it.

No big deal. It was a picture of Elvis in his later days, overweight and unhealthy.

That looks fantastic. One thing, though. Funny marks on the road here. I wonder how they happened? By Ebyabe - Own work, CC BY 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2614616

Not that I'm jealous or anything, but that looks like a really nice bit of road.

Thanks. It used to look like this. https://akubra.com.au/products/tablelands-brown-olive

One more photo from my weekend. I know you'll all be stunned by the good looks. To be fair, it was taken by a professional photographer who was there (on his Guzzi), so it's no wonder it is such an amazing picture.

Well spotted, @leroysch . I didn't notice that. 13,000 - 11,000 =

See, that's why they didn't take you for the job. To the professional eye, it is obviously gaffer tape, not insulation tape. © Marie-Lan Nguyen / Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY 2.5 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaffer_tape

No worries mate, you'll be right. Have a look at the pictures here. The stand mounts to the bottom-most nut on the pork chops, which appears in your photos to be accessible. https://shop.becker-technik.de/en/products/central-lifter-24 I've got one of them, and it is brilliant.

That's it, indeed. The gap is to accomodate the fat blonks that buy that sort of thing...

Please do.

Good to see. We had a half-dozen or so V85 TT, about the same number of the newer V7 850s in various versions, and a couple each of V100 Mandellos and V100 Stelvios. Old dogs can learn new tricks, after all.

A couple of pictures from my weekend. We got lucky, probably the last cry of summer this year. About 30°C, sunshine, just beautiful. It started raining just now (late in the night after I got home today), and is going to be wet for the next 3 or 4 days. This is the spot. Don't be confused by the exposure, the two pictures were taken from the same spot, one into the sun, one away from it. It is the grounds of a canoe club, mostly slalom kayaks as far as I can tell. The poles are visible in the picture taken towards the river. Lunch time, half-way through the ride on Saturday. I counted 48 bikes. Two of them were side-car outfits (both Guzzis), and only three were not Guzzis. I was pleased to finally see this bike. The owner and builder has been reporting his progress for a while now in the German forum. The frame is a late model Tonti California frame. Motor is V11 (with ground off fins to look like an older round motor), but carbies instead of injectors. The rest of it, I don't really know. Suffice to say that absolutely none of it is "standard", neither for the frame nor in relation to any of the other parts. I don't like the Cali 2 look, actually, and the paint job is a matter of taste, but the thing is a work of art. There were two V11s there. This one, which I didn't like much. It said "Le Mans" on the side covers, and the colour suggests it may have been a Rosso Corsa. So why would one take off the Le Mans fairing and put on that shitty looking fly catcher? The other one was a Greenie. Not pretty, you might say. I liked it. It belongs to Bob. He bought it in 2005. The bike is loved, and lived, and matches the owner perfectly: a bit tousled and slightly eccentric. Here is Bob on his Greenie, loaded up and about to head off home. I had a great weekend. I hope you all at the Twentieth (XX!) South'n Spine Raid 2024 this last weekend did too.