Despite a miserable wet day, though it dried up during the main event itself, a decent turn-out of Clyde Valley HOG members made the rideout to the Annual Erskine Bike Meet.
Some pics courtesy of Pete Chisholm with more on Flickr ( linked below)
Photos from the Erskine Bike Meet
Video of the Erskine Bike Meet made by Road Captain Raymond Brodie
Read more of what we have been up to in the items below
With the summer holidays in full swing and plenty of folk off on their travels, we still had 12 bikes heading out for Glentrool yesterday… Read more: Glentrool Ride Out
Great turnout on Saturday for the Wemyss Bay Fly By – a circular ride out from West Coast Harley-Davidson! With plenty of bikes on the… Read more: Wemyss Bay Fly By
On Saturday, we kicked off the riding season with an overnight trip to the Buccleuch Arms in Moffat, attracting nearly 40 Harleys and over 50 members. Despite changing weather, we arrived safely and enjoyed the hotel’s amenities. The night was filled with laughs and mischief, marking a successful start to the season. It was great too, to have both old and new members along for the fun.
With the introduction to the Committee last year, the position of Safety Officer, it is important as a chapter we take on board his recommendations… Read more: Being Safe and Prepared on Ride Outs
Our first Lads night happened on Friday with Jigger showing up having had a Hot Wheels logo tattoo’ed on his arm. Fitzy was eager to tell him to go back and get the Mattel Logo added to make it look legit.
We have helpfully added it here so you can go back and get it done right mate. Hope you never had to pay for that….. Don’t worry, Connor reckons a few hot showers and it should wash off.
Aside from that it was the usual throwing food at each other and romantic photo’s in the flowers. Whether any food was consumed is anyone guess, it’s likely Cosmo at Silverburn won’t be allowing them back anytime soon.
Connor announced his engagement to Chris, wait until Chris finds out Connor hasn’t got an Engagement honeymoon booked to Cyprus for them both. With Chris being a Grandad now is this even legal?
We are assuming Stevie wasn’t on his bike or he was taking the term “knee’s in the breeze” to a whole new level….also brings a new meaning to the colour “white”. Apparently Dulux have announced they want to sample his legs for their new “Ghost of Christmas Past” range.
Read more of what we have been up to in the items below
With the summer holidays in full swing and plenty of folk off on their travels, we still had 12 bikes heading out for Glentrool yesterday… Read more: Glentrool Ride Out
Great turnout on Saturday for the Wemyss Bay Fly By – a circular ride out from West Coast Harley-Davidson! With plenty of bikes on the… Read more: Wemyss Bay Fly By
On Saturday, we kicked off the riding season with an overnight trip to the Buccleuch Arms in Moffat, attracting nearly 40 Harleys and over 50 members. Despite changing weather, we arrived safely and enjoyed the hotel’s amenities. The night was filled with laughs and mischief, marking a successful start to the season. It was great too, to have both old and new members along for the fun.
With the introduction to the Committee last year, the position of Safety Officer, it is important as a chapter we take on board his recommendations… Read more: Being Safe and Prepared on Ride Outs
With the sun splitting the sky we had a good showing at the Bishopbriggs Community Festival Parade on May 18th with lots of Harleys and noise to keep the locals happy.
Photos kindly supplied by Pete Chisholm.
Images on Flickr
Read more of what we have been up to in the items below
With the summer holidays in full swing and plenty of folk off on their travels, we still had 12 bikes heading out for Glentrool yesterday… Read more: Glentrool Ride Out
Great turnout on Saturday for the Wemyss Bay Fly By – a circular ride out from West Coast Harley-Davidson! With plenty of bikes on the… Read more: Wemyss Bay Fly By
On Saturday, we kicked off the riding season with an overnight trip to the Buccleuch Arms in Moffat, attracting nearly 40 Harleys and over 50 members. Despite changing weather, we arrived safely and enjoyed the hotel’s amenities. The night was filled with laughs and mischief, marking a successful start to the season. It was great too, to have both old and new members along for the fun.
With the introduction to the Committee last year, the position of Safety Officer, it is important as a chapter we take on board his recommendations… Read more: Being Safe and Prepared on Ride Outs
Summer-like weather finally arrived and coincided just perfectly for the annual chapter ride out and overnighter, to Campbeltown. With a fully booked hotel, and nearly 30 bikes, we headed off to Kintyre with no thought of waterproofs or salt on the roads.
With The Gathering coming up rapidly….there is still time to get your tickets…
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Head road Captain Jigger had decided to put the Road Crew through their paces for the showpiece 7 lochs ride out. So the Chapter could take it easy and leave the drops offs to the guys and girls in Orange Hi-viz. It also gets anyone in the chapter who hasn’t ridden on the “7 Lochs” familiar with the road crew activities.
Road Crew for the run to Campbeltown….but would they still be smiling on arrival? Oh Yes!
While to be fair, there aren’t many actual drop-offs on this route, on the day we encountered probably 4 sets of lights that all needed managing with this number of bikes to keep together. So between these and numerous dummy drop-offs along the route the road crew worked hard and it all went well.
CVH on the Road to Campbeltown and the Mull of Kintyre….
There is one more Road Crew practice day scheduled for between now and The Gathering so as you can see it is no rest for the wicked!
A few of the crew were glad to be out on the open road in any case, as it meant their credit cards could escape a battering from the wives picking up some weekend “essentials” at WCHD.
Frazer was devastated as he watched his credit score deteriorate before his very eyes
The ride up to the Rest and Be Thankful was glorious in the late spring sunshine and even here, no waterproofs needed to be donned.
After a short wait at the top for the now obligatory rock fall works, it was downhill all the way towards Loch Fyne. Denis… “he who will have pudding” …. may have been smiling when Jigger doled out is “afters” at the briefing but was soon in trouble with the only breakdown of the weekend in the middle of nowhere. So he spent much of the early afternoon awaiting rescue from WCHD who came out to uplift him after his wee Sportster went “clunk”.
A spot of Aerobics led by Janice at the R&Be Thankful
It is fair to say the chapter definitely got the attention of the many visitors as we passed through Inverary without stopping, and the rest of the chapter headed on to Lochgilphead for refueling body and machine before departing for the last leg down to Campbeltown.
We arrived in Campbeltown around 3pm in time for the now customary chapter photo at the harbour before heading in to the Argyll Arms Hotel for rooms and refreshments.
We hear several motorcycle clothing outlets are already catching on to Lairdy’s new trend
There was lots of the usual carry-on and banter, most notable being Lairdy in his bubble wrap suit which would hopefully save him from a late-night visit to A and E this year.
Denis arrives before the sun had disappeared
Denis joined us later in the evening at the pub which led to much dancing in celebration and for those with the stamina the party went on into the night.
It’s fair to say though no one was looking the worse for wear in the morning and everyone made breakfast, including Lairdy who wasn’t reliant on NHS catering this year.
Clyde Valley were their usual subdued selves.
The chapter departed Campbeltown in slightly grey but still pleasant conditions and it wasn’t until we rendezvoused with the Sunday shop ride out at Inverary that finally the dry spell gave way to some light rain. it was nothing too bad though and didn’t spoil the overall enjoyment of a weekend in the far west.
Until next year…mark your diary for 10th May.
Lairdy was ha ha ha ha Stayin’ Alive, Stayin Alive….. The arm was still working
You can see all the images from the Campbeltown trip on our Chapter Flickr
Read more of what we have been up to in the items below
With the summer holidays in full swing and plenty of folk off on their travels, we still had 12 bikes heading out for Glentrool yesterday… Read more: Glentrool Ride Out
Great turnout on Saturday for the Wemyss Bay Fly By – a circular ride out from West Coast Harley-Davidson! With plenty of bikes on the… Read more: Wemyss Bay Fly By
On Saturday, we kicked off the riding season with an overnight trip to the Buccleuch Arms in Moffat, attracting nearly 40 Harleys and over 50 members. Despite changing weather, we arrived safely and enjoyed the hotel’s amenities. The night was filled with laughs and mischief, marking a successful start to the season. It was great too, to have both old and new members along for the fun.
With the introduction to the Committee last year, the position of Safety Officer, it is important as a chapter we take on board his recommendations… Read more: Being Safe and Prepared on Ride Outs
Our first Chapter Ride out of 2024 was threatened by the weather (once again ) early in the prior week, but Road Captain Connor Fitzsimmons brought the sunshine ( and his new fiancee) back with him to lead us to the entry to Glencoe on a bright dry if slightly chilly morning.
There was a fair bit of salt on the roads, especially the closer to Tyndrum you got, but with it being dry it really caused no issue that a good rinse down after the ride couldn’t solve.
Road Captain for the day was ConnorBurnsy was gasping by this pointStevies Road Glide looking cool.Nicole on her first official duties on the Road Crew.
The first leg of the rideout took a turnout of nearly 30 bikes from WCHD up the side of Loch Lomond to Crianlarch and on for a Burnsy fag stop, at Tyndrum.
Photobombed by the Tyndrum Faery people…….
Nicotine consumed, bladders emptied and tanks refilled ( as appropriate), another 25 minutes and the bikes arrived at the gateway to Glencoe, Kingshouse, stopping in at the hotel. Many took the time to enjoy a hot pie or a cup of homemade soup to warm up where the cold had got through.
Charlie on the Fat BoyFraz and Kaz on the Fat Bob Tommy and Jojo on the trike
The backdrop to the hotel is simply stunning especially on a clear day such as this with the sun dappling the sides of Buachallie Etive Mor, it looks like a painted film set and provided ample opportunity for some nice bike pics.
Looks like a painted backdropYour call is important to us, you ar in the queue behind 15000 islanders and two ferries…Mines is a Harley Tattoo…. Lairdy: “Mines is Phone number of A&E at Campbeltown”
All the pics from Sundays rideout
Read more of what we have been up to in the items below
With the summer holidays in full swing and plenty of folk off on their travels, we still had 12 bikes heading out for Glentrool yesterday… Read more: Glentrool Ride Out
Great turnout on Saturday for the Wemyss Bay Fly By – a circular ride out from West Coast Harley-Davidson! With plenty of bikes on the… Read more: Wemyss Bay Fly By
On Saturday, we kicked off the riding season with an overnight trip to the Buccleuch Arms in Moffat, attracting nearly 40 Harleys and over 50 members. Despite changing weather, we arrived safely and enjoyed the hotel’s amenities. The night was filled with laughs and mischief, marking a successful start to the season. It was great too, to have both old and new members along for the fun.
With the introduction to the Committee last year, the position of Safety Officer, it is important as a chapter we take on board his recommendations… Read more: Being Safe and Prepared on Ride Outs
With the summer holidays in full swing and plenty of folk off on their travels, we still had 12 bikes heading out for Glentrool yesterday… Read more: Glentrool Ride Out
On Sunday the sun finally shone. It was definitely on the cool side but not cold, and we assembled 27 bikes at the Showcase near… Read more: Ask your Mum for money for Ice Cream…. we’re off to Porty!
On Saturday, we kicked off the riding season with an overnight trip to the Buccleuch Arms in Moffat, attracting nearly 40 Harleys and over 50 members. Despite changing weather, we arrived safely and enjoyed the hotel’s amenities. The night was filled with laughs and mischief, marking a successful start to the season. It was great too, to have both old and new members along for the fun.
With the introduction to the Committee last year, the position of Safety Officer, it is important as a chapter we take on board his recommendations… Read more: Being Safe and Prepared on Ride Outs
