Despite our numbers being down due to various ailments and mechanicals an enjoyable weekend was spent in the sunshine on our stand at the South Molton Vintage Rally.
On Saturday Andy was a real hero and saved our day by arriving in his van to deliver and erect our gazebo before heading home to look after his wife who was laid up with a painful knee injury. Later in the day our A&E team sprang into action when the Guzzi’s exhaust pipe came loose. Ian went foraging at the tool stand and proudly came back with the required M8 nuts and delved into his Harley’s capacious panniers to produce a tool kit capable of a road-side rebuild. Then Mike couldn’t be restrained from demonstrating his engineering prowess, quickly whipping off said exhaust pipe and skilfully repositioning everything with judicious use of our tent-peg mallet.
We had more action on Sunday when Richard’s vintage Harley unfortunately suffered a clutch failure a mile or two from the gate. Although Richard said he was ready to throw the Harley into the hedge, help was on hand to push it to a safe spot and Richard was able to spend the day with us before being trucked home later that evening.
All in all, another memorable weekend.
Gordon took on a managerial role in our quality control department
Mike was fully focused on fixing the Guzzi and getting it right
