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Actually, here's one I prepared earlier! You can just see it. I'll post a better shot when up and about again Lemon honey tea and getting sorted out on the sofa for the Oz superbikes on tv later on ! Cheers Guzzler

Sorry mate I've just seen this. I went with RSC as in Doc's photo and it's mounted in same spot as the original! They do look pretty good I must admit.( I got a black one ) Ha ha now that I can post photos I'll see about posting one! Might have to wait a wee bit, I've come down with a dose of the lurgy ( flu ) and confined to bed and sofa at the moment. Cheers Guzzler

One from over the top ( By the Lake- just past Falls Creek ski resort ) Lovely winter type weather for us! Cheers Guzzler

G'day mate Yeah the standard Bitubo ( I think from memory ) isn't all that flash! I put a Hyperpro damper on when I had my Suspension done as my std unit was leaking too, it's been bloody good / no issues. Yep definitely worthwhile upgrading your suspension by the way!! Cheers Guzzler

Same morning at the Upper Yarra Reservoir

A shot from the Guzzi club breaky a few years ago. Cheers Guzzler

The first coffee ( heart starter ) on Sunday!

Look's like just two at a time?

BBrace yourselves fella's, gunna try a multiple pic post!

Yep Getting so that it's better to take some Annual leave and get out there during the week when it's quieter! He he, we've still got a few good un's here in Gippsland though ! Just need the council ( s ) to fix the crap surface on some of them. Cheers Guzzler

Mate. It's even worse with crap road surface,roadworks every couple of kays,several hundred coaches full of tourists,Mr and Mrs with the 2.4 and caravan, impatient drivers and that's before you get to Lorne and one long gridlock nearly to the outskirts of Geelong!! FFS, I read a while later they were complaining about the decline of tourists on the GOR !!! If that was a quiet day then definitely NEVER ****** AGAIN. I've ridden it many times in the past when you could enjoy it but reckon that's it for me. Cheers Guzzler Ps you're right though,Victoria has plenty more interesting roads !!

G'day Tom Yep, it was Feb 2020 so summer. We ran into weird weather though.It was cool and overcast when we set off on the Saturday and warm by the time we got to the Sorrento -Queenscliff ferry. Then due to a couple of road closures had to drone down the highway for 50 or so K's, by this time the temp was in the 30's ( c ) which lead to great run through the rain forest that is the Otway ranges.However as we gained altitude in the ranges, temp dropped and we ran into rain! Once we dropped back down to the coast, temp in the mid-high 30's but after a wee refreshment stop in Port Campbell it was a short run to the Boggy Creek pub and several more refreshments! Warm again on the Sunday but same again once we hit the rainforest of the Otways, temp dropped quite a bit and rain was heavier than previous day.It was quite challenging with bloody tree bark all over the road in places and I swear I will NEVER do the Great Ocean Road again on a weekend! Traffic stupid and a couple of accidents didn't help.Jeez if we were in a car we'd still be trying to get home. When we got to the ferry this time grabbed a pie and a coffee and chatted with a few more riders in the hold by the bikes.It's only a 40 or so minute trip across the bay but saves a lot of freeway crap through the city. Then about an hour or so in the late afternoon and cool weather we were home again. A bloody great weekend was had by all. I think I heard that they served about 70 meals on Sat. night!It was pretty raucous in the dining room ha ha. Cheers Guzzler Ps 2021 was cancelled originally due to covid but then on again a few weeks later but it threw plans into chaos so couldn't go. Pps I have a few more photos, ha ha taken the morning after as well ( we all just got set up and straight to the bar/deck after arriving so none from Sat night ) which I might try and post if I figure out how to post multiple shots on one post.

The Boggy Creek or Curdievale Pub. Site of the Laverda and Moto Guzzi club rally ( Piss up !!) 2020. This was taken the morning after when all was quiet whilst consuming over coffees and Bacon/egg rolls before heading off on the 400 k ride home. Cheers Guzzler

Doc Your GB500 is a beauty mate. As Phil's saying your Honda is a superior bike than a old 50's English 500 thumper. Probably not as sophisticated as a modern KTM / Husky big single, but I reckon Honda got the GB500TT model just right! Cheers Guzzler Ha ha maybe modern nostalgia ?

Hey Footgoose & Chuck. You guy's seen the prices the big Healey's are fetching these day's?? My mate used to own a Bug Eye Sprite 1600 which his Father in Law encouraged him to buy a few years ago. He had an immaculate 3 litre which was worth over 100K here in Oz at the time! And this was some time ago! Yep bloody hindsight is always 20/20 vision eh. Cheers Guzzler

Heh he That's quite a screamer right there too mate !! Cheers Guzzler

G'day folk's I was looking for something the other day and stumbled upon this old Instamatic photo from 1977. Sorry about the quality! This bloody thing was my second bike after teaching myself to ride on my first,a Suzuki RV75 Van Van ( yep the one with the balloon tyres ). I swore I'd never take the wee zook off road and remember 60 k's an hour feeling bloody fast. Yep , sure enough I ended up taking it off-road! After about a year, my cousin got wind of another rider in the family and dropped round to see what was what.He raced a heavily modified CR125 in local motocross and knew what he was on about,so in due course I was convinced that a CR125 race bike was what I needed for my second bike and he'd help me find one! Now as mentioned earlier this was 1977 and I was 10 stone wringing wet and all arms and legs but a suitable machine was found.At this stage the early CR was slightly eclipsed by the newer RM zook and YZ Yammie but as a weekend plaything racing amongst mates it was still a weapon! Twenty horsepower and 80 kilos in weight none the less.Better than many 250 trail bikes of the time. I clearly remember my first ride, it took a couple of goes as there's nothing below 7500 and then everything from there to 10,500 whereupon the front wheel sits straight up, the back scrambles for traction and kicks out sideways on each gearchange and you just bang thru the gears without the clutch.At full noise in 6th the front's still in the air. We used to live about 200 metres or so from the beach in those distant days which meant that almost every spare bit of time was spent hammering this wee firecracker up the street n left onto Marine Parade and within a couple o clicks we were at the end of civilization and into bush / beach fire tracks etc and FUN TIME. Now between home and the wilderness lay Dads mates diary ( to ozzies a milk bar, to people in uk the corner shop USA ?? ) which I used to fly past at 65 mph, front wheel in the air and a racket that would've outdone a hundred banshees. Lance ( Dads mate ) was a good bloke ex stock car racer, drove a big block Chev Impala and still raced go Karts occasionally.He also kept a couple of Piranhas in a fish tank in the middle of the shop which was fun watching them being fed with chunks of meat if you happened in at feeding time. Anyways rather than being pissed off about it he thought it was hilarious as when I went past it used to rattle all the cans and bottles on his shelves and cracking him up. All up I had the CR for a couple of years before getting rid of it.She'd been rebored a few times and I'd broken the frame in two places ( too many big jumps & only 4 inches of travel ) and I also needed something I could ride on the road ( legally that is ) so she had to go. But bloody hell there's nothing like a 125 screamer to teach you how to ride eh! Still brings a smile to me and my ole mates and family still all these years later too. Anyways thanks for the indulgence that is nostalgia. Cheers Guzzler Ps How about you blokes> As lifelong bike nuts we've all got plenty to reminisce about ! I I

One more from Anglers Rest / outside the Blue Duck Inn. Cheers Guzzler

Anglers Rest ( Victorian High Country ) Oz Great spot and the Blue Duck Inn is a ripper !! Cheers Guzzler

Gotta love the local council's sense of understatement ! Cheers Guzzler

One more to make sure!

Ha ha Thanks everyone, think i've got it now! Gotta say once you know what you're doing this Imgzeit is bloody great! Cheers Guzzler