Still practicing putting pics on the forum.

The might V8

Stelvio Pass.

  At the top.

  The mighty Laverda V6. One of one, at Mr. Laverda’s wine estate just outside Breganze.   He let me rev it up! 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9EG3IiLMb4&pp=ygUSTGF2ZXJkYSBWNiBzdGFydHVw

  Transf@9arasaon Pass, Transylvania, Romania

  2024 INOA  Norton Rally. 

 Mikes Sky Ranch, Baja Mexico Norte

  Santa Rosalia, Baja South.

  Agostini’s, downtown Mandelo Del Lario.

 Slate Peak outlook, highest road in Wa state.

 Puertocitos, Baja north

Bufeo, Baja north , flat tire.

 Bahia do Los Angeles

Punta Estrella

  Entrance to Mikes Sky Ranch, Hwy 3 at Ejido Francisco R. Serrano.

  Puertcitos, Baja

OMG!  We’ve created a photo monster.

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  Death Calley East Gate.

  Rhyolite Ghost town train station.

  Badwater Basin, hottest location on earth.

  Amargosa Opera House and Hotel. Death Valley Junction at CA-127.

 Cool Springs Station, Route 66.

 Oatman, Arizona.

  Lake Havasu City.

Area 51 Alien Center,  southern entrance to Area 51.

Kula, Maui

  Car deck on Hardy-Bella Coola ferry.

Thanks Steve, very cool photos!

  Thanks James.
  I’m willing to put up with the hurdles  to put pics on here.

Past rides

NZ

Past rides

  Moto Social August 2024

AMA Champion Steve Crevier wanted to sit on my bike. Heck yeah!?

  Sheridan, Wyoming lunch stop.

Roadrunner Magazine, shot of my Messerschmitt coming in hot for an article.

  Negotiations under way, Sibiu, Romania

  From Robert Smith’s article in Roadrunner Magazine.

 Fort Langley

  2024.

Distinguished Gentlemans Ride Ft Langley

Photos of the kids. They grow up so fast.

  Current garage residents.

Let me give it a try

One more try

Everything is fat again.  I will try something else

Try again

Screw it.  I will move on to something more simple like a nuclear particle reactor.

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    Lolol, at least it would have an owners manual.
  I hear your frustration.  I finally got things working after following the video that James sent me. There is not a hope in hell that I could have found the steps needed to , essentially resize and reformat pics taken by an iPhone 12 , accepted to the forum. And that’s the big thing, limited size capability, 250kb or less, and, format, JPEG. All of that is done within the IPhone, and that with the IPhone, a suitable picture is made, and formatted using the ‘Files’  APP  which if it is not already on your IPhone, it’s downloaded  from the APP area within 10 seconds.

This is a test after cropping John's photo

It seemed to work. I brought the top border down and the bottom border up to give it more of a landscape look. It seems if you don't take the photo landscape (phone 1/4 turn left) you will get the squished look.

That would explain why Ross suggested to turn the phone sideways taking the picture

Thanks John

It's the holidays, these things happen.

Single use device.

Unsquish test

James  it appears you will be teaching a course next Wednesday

  Looking for a field to plow!

Kinda looks like the late George Dockray coming down the steps.

   You are correct.

  Legendary Joe Li on his Velocette KKS in East Van Sunday afternoon. I scared the S#*t out of him running out on the street blocking g traffic to take a pic.

  Loaded up with engine oil!!

Yukon trip June 2021.

  That last picture looks like you just missed getting buried by a landslide!!!

  I totally forgot that you went to the Yukon. Where did you go on that ride?

James, at coffee on Wednesday, if we’re both there, could you please teach us how to unsquish pics taken in portrait?

We were on a forest service road heading towards Smithers off of the Cassiar Highway.  We bumped into the rockslide and had to backtrack.  Did lots of those kind of roads on that trip.  Got home, decided that the old Kawis just weren’t working for trips anymore.  Three weeks later I bought the Tracer.  A month later I sold my Z1 900 and KZ1000 LTD.

Really great road.

 Lolo Pass??

Yup.

 One of the classics!!!

I bet there's a coyote under that boulder...

A couple of days before I sold it.

Bike show 2025 pics.

 Bike show

Horizons Unlimited legends Grant and Susan Johnson, and their incredible steed!

  The Airhead of all Airheads!!

  Dream cycle Museum display. Vincent Rapide. For sale I hear!

  Very special works Maico!

Details on that.

Lovely Yamaha!

  Old school HD.

  Extremely rare Works Suzuki ridden by Gary Goodfellow!

Left side

Suzuki details:

I saw one of those advertised for sale recently.  Possibly on FB Marketplace?  Price was low.

  Which one??  They were saying g the Rapide is for sale.

Stopped by Shail’s this afternoon. Project season for them, keeping busy with dudes converting solid R75’s and R100’s into modern “cafe racers”, sadly.
  As usual, very interesting and notable machines on the floor.
   R90’S.

 ‘93 R100GSPD. Low production, less than 500.

  Extremely rare ‘95 R80GSPD Kalahri. With HPN Dakar fuel tank. One of 54 made. A unicorn among unicorns even before the HPN fuel tank. South Africa delivery only. Is this the only one in Canada?   

 1974 Honda 350-4. Mint, original everything.

 Mid 90’s Kawi  ZX7R

Rare ‘93 red GS

  Lovely early 60’s R26

  Early R60 I think.

Here’s a pic of my dad’s Winchester model 1906, .22 pump.  Manufactured from 1906-1932.  From the serial number, I reckon it was made in 1925.  My dad got it second hand in the late ‘20s or early ‘30s.  When he passed away, I inherited it.  I’ve recently passed it on to my youngest son who lives in Vernon and is a very active hunter and fisherman.  

The rifle changed over its manufacturing run.  Initially the barrel was a bit shorter and it was chambered for .22 shorts.  By the time this rifle was built, the barrel was a bit longer and it would take shorts, longs, and long rifle bullets.  I was shooting it with my son in November and it still shoots dead on with the sight set at 50 yards.  An amazing 100 year old piece.  

Very nice Ross.

I've got a Stevens .410 from about the same period. Old enough there's no serial number and no safety. It's single action so it doesn't really need one.

I have to make some decisions about the guns I got from my Dad, a 1925 model Winchester 30-30 lever action and two sporterised Enfield .303’s. Then from one uncle the 1878 Waffen Fabriken .41 rim-fire,1923 .303 Enfield military issue, two1950’s Remington 30-06 and the three 12 gauge shotguns. Then another uncle’s 30-06 and then the Spanish made .410/.22 over and under.
These fed our families for decades but few are interested any more

My dad collected mainly Remington rolling block firearms for 60-70 years. He ended up sending them to an auction in Ontario a year a go and did fairly well with the 60-70 guns.

  I used to have a few shotguns and rifles. For 30 yrs I used to go bird hi ting with my dad and his buddies south of Lethbridge in the fall. Dad with his 20 gauge Beretta auto, and mt with my JCHiggins 12 gauge pump “shoulder dislocating device”. And of course out on the farm  I had my old Cooye single shot 22, shoot target practice , rabbits, and crows. We were a bit nutbar. Cops came over and said not to do that anymore. We’re talking 1960’s.
 I’ve lost my old FAC, thinking of redoing my training courses, get back into it. Gotta be ready for the society breakdown!

My story.

  My very first motorcycle. 1967 Keystone TAS 50. Simpsons Sears catalog, $139.00.

I decided to deal with my rifles while I’m still alive.  I reckon an executor would have a heck of a time dealing with them.

  Spotted in North Burnaby, Rob on his lovely 1957 Norton M50!

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Here's one for Ross. Rider unknown.

Ya.  That’s cool.

My last backcountry ski trip.

   It seems,,,,,,,,cold in the picture.

That’s a picture of a picture that is in my house.  No, not particularly cold. 

That’s our first camp after being dropped off by the helicopter.  About 7,000ft at the head of the Elaho Glacier.   First week of June, 2010.  It was a Saturday.  Spent the next week skiing out to Meager Creek Hotsprings.  For the most part we had bluebird warm weather.  Only had one day where we didn’t travel due to weather.  A couple of nights I didn’t sleep in the tent, I was out under the stars.  We’d parked a vehicle on the road up to Meager Creek as far up as the snow would permit.

My last and best backcountry ski trip. 

  Wasn’t there a massive landslide up there in 2024-2016??? I was riding up there near Pemberton, when police walked into the restaurant my girlfriend and I were having breakfast at, told us we had 10 minutes to head east to Lilloett or south to Whistler because of pending superfood which was the blocked river.
  We headed up the hill to Lilloett.

Yes.  Some years ago, not sure if the hotsprings have reopened.

  Freidel Munch, 1966, testing his prototype Munch Mammut.

Jay Leno claimed that his Mammut had a real "Marching in to Poland" feel to it. Lol

  Lolol

Hot springs were open but the road was wiped out by the slide.  The bridge was never replaced.  It was one of the biggest slides in BC history.  It blocked off the Lillooet River for a few days until the water overflowed the slide.  You can hike into Meagher from the South side...there is a trail from the upper end of the Elaho River but it's a long hike, about a day or maybe two.

  Very odd motorcycle at International Langley. Fully electric street legal Ciulator, made in S. Korea.

Gaggle of year old MV Agusta models.

 More MV

Someone named a motorcycle Ciulator? Like See-you-later? That's brilliant!

Better than the Korean bicycle tires I had from Dae Yung

  Yup, that’s exactly what they named it after, “See ya later”.

In all my years of riding here, in the USA, in England or in New Zealand, I have yet to see a real Live MV Augusta on the road. Too expensive to risk a "get-off" or theft?

  I guy I know from the BMOC bought a new 2004 MV Brutale 750 from a dealer in Burlington, WA, during a time when there was a huge hole in the Canadian RIV inclusion list, very reasonable prices actually. Of course Cdn direct purchase, the prices are insane. They have a model that $99,900.
  I toured the factory 15 yrs ago, just after Harley Davidson sold it for 1$ Dollar back to Mr. Castiglioni. They had tons of cash, the production line was casual to outright lazy.

Italian factories....not known for their productivity in some cases. 

I worked with a guy who was from the USSR. Before it fell apart.

We had some interesting conversations about how things worked under communism.

I asked him about how things got made in Russia and if the quality was really as bad as we are led to believe in North America.

His response was: "Say you work in a factory that makes chairs and you have a quota of 30 chairs per month. If you're smart, you work easy and make one chair a day for 30 days. But you're actually lazy so instead of making one chair a day, you drink vodka every day for 28 days, then try to make 30 chairs in 2 days."

  I worked  with a fellow, Manfred, who escaped former East Germany. He worked at the Trabant car factory.  He spent most of the time drinking coffee with the rest of the crew, and carving their initials in every part of the factory, waiting for bulk materials, and waiting for equipment to be fixed. Utter cluster-####.

 ;D

  A few snapshots from opening day at Mecam.
  There’s still lots of money happening . A few notable trends,,,some previous older English bikes are softening up, primarily BSA’s, and pre oil in frame Triumphs.
  Little bikes are strong!

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 A couple more from the auction
  This, the biggest seller:

  Neal Peart , Rush drummer, serious rider, his last machine before rip to cancer:

  Strong showing by a new classic by Honda:

Alice Cooper

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Happy Camp California. Most epics riding!

 Kamaole Beach 2, South Kihei, Maui

  Arraba, Dolomites, Italia

  Mr. Morbidelli at his museum, Pesaro.

  Piaggio Ape, downtown  Sibiu.

  Touratech Rally, Plain, Wa

.  Slow race at Touratech rally.

  Isle of Vashon TT ferry lineup at Fauntelroy dock.

  Buster Keaton ‘s movie set for the movie “The General”, Cottage Grove, Oregon.

 Beartooth Pass, Wyoming. 10,900 ‘

  Brasov, Transylvania

  The New Zealand incident, and the self deleting of a Ducati engine. And the end of my ride in New Zealand.  Probably why I shall not ever own a Ducati again. The engine literally exploded just outside the hamlet of Tarras, South Island. Here it is waiting for a rental vehicle from Queenstown airport.

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  It took 10-12 “Honda Riders of Australia” which I ran out on the highway to flag them down, and help to lift this POS bike ram it into the van, after I had previously disassembled the entire interior of the van, and disassemble the windscreen off the bike,,,,to fit it in.

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  Yeah, you saw that correctly, we rode home  in a “Juicy el cheapo Enima”. Couldn’t make this up at all!

Wednesday coffee, first bike appearance of 2025, Ross with his ‘75 CB750, and John on his ‘83 Sportster. Both bikes looking much more resplendent than the owners I might say!!!

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Thanks for the pictures Steve!

Great to get out on two wheels!  First time in almost exactly 7 months.  Only encountered one a**hole driver.  Other than that, a really pleasant ride.  And the CB750 ran a treat. 

Thanks for posting pics, Steve.

  Both bikes sounded really good!!!

  Roy on his Moto Gutsi morning coffee Sunday!!!!

I like the shallow flat rear luggage.  Oh, yeah, and the long muffler, on a very nice bike.

20 seconds i'll never get back LOL

  Found a bike, today, I offered 50% more than current market value, today,,,, owner gave me a hard no. I have. Serious soft spot for Can-Am motorcycles, having owned 2 before.
 IMO it’s a marketing exercise, wisely so,,  at GVMC  local dealer on North Langley, to
Help in the sale of Can-Am’s new major jump into the electric motor cycle market, this particular model seen in the flesh, the first showroom  bike in Western Canada.

.  The basics: $22,599. Plus/plus/plus. 125km range at 100km/ hr highway. Forgot the details on charging, charge time, etc, but it appears to have significant options and standard features over its close competitor, Zero MC.

  Wednesday coffee at Panorama area of central Surrey.

  Ross’s lovely CB750 with what we’ve been told is factory Fred Flinstone front brake!

Roy’s smart looking Moto Guzzi!!

  James’ stately Moto Guzzi, I’m guessing an Ambassador, with brand new mufflers from another large brand, forget which one, but the engine sounds fabulous!!

  I’ve notified my neighbours to not bother arming their car alarms the next 7 months. It hasn’t gotten any quieter during its winter slumber.

Isn't it great when everyone can experience the joys of Laverda ownership?

  Group sharing.  Makes me all warm all over.

  First true warm day of 2025,,,, got two of the beasts out. Scored free bratwurst and drink as well!!!

 
  First 2025  sighting of Peter’s very unique and cool Meriden Triumph today at coffee!!

  Ron’s new toy today!!

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CLARIFICATION.   You jumped the gun.  I am still considering several alternative machines.  The CAN AM has just been purchased by a friend in Aldergrove area.  Hell, he's even older than ME, if that seems possible. I'm hoping to get to the coast to prowl a bunch of shops this weekend to see what strikes my fancy (and doesn't empty my retirement savings).

  Thanks for clarifying on!  I was just so excited as I always am when somebody I know gets a new toy!!!

Shails motorcycles has become a classic  bike museum of sorts!!

  ‘74 CB350/4

  Extremely rare 1980 R80  G/S Paris-Dakar

 Another ‘unicorn’,  1960 R69S for a new tire!

  Yet another ultra rare machine, on the for sale floor, early 60’s R26 250 shaftie. Mint!!

1st annual Coffee and Bikes gathering, a Deeley HD. I was honestly shocked at the number of bikes, 450+. Amazing number of younger riders, I think HD is quite active in finding new riders. There were perhaps 75% superbikes.

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  Rob and his lovely wife out on their classics today!!!

Somehow missed hearing about this otherwise would have been there.

  It was actually surprisingly enjoyable. Had fantastic carne tacos using corn tortillas, and Mexican pineapple soft drink. Reminded me of Baja!

Did they start calling you "Brother"?

       “Bruh”

  Messerschmitt on the road, running fine!

  Bumblebee returned after 4 months waiting wait front Germany,,,,long story!!   Machine runs lovely, taller 5th gear is a super great move, very happy!!  Clutch slips though, geez!

  Wednesday morning coffee saw the first siting of John’s lovely Honda GB500 in 2025. Very rare, super clean!

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 And Ross brought out his sleek new Yamaha!

 But the action of the day was checking out John’s new custom headlight on his cast iron Sportster!

  Actually it turns out that the headlight decided to fly away, such is the acceleration of a 40+ yr old Harley!!   Handy man Roy pulled out his screwdriver before anyone else and John put it back in.
  I followed John and it fell out again so he pulled it out and into his jacket. I’m sure he made it home ok and is working on it right now!

Yes indeed it was a quick fix when I returned home this morning.  Thanks for the help guys and will let you know next time a piece wants to depart from the bike.

And people ask me what I do with my retirement time!

Not too sure which brand of old bike the adage was meant for.....RIDE IT SUNDAY....FIX IT MONDAY.

That's why Harley have so much chrome. 
It's  much easier to find shiney bits on the side of the road.

AHAHAHAHAHA!!!   ;D