The Gathering 2024 report

It’s fair to say The Gathering 2024 was a great great success on many fronts. We hosted around 400 bikers at Hunters Quay from all over the UK, and 10 chapters were represented in those numbers, with big turn outs from Dunedin ( biggest chapter), Red Rose, Fenlanders and Great Western, as well as HOG members from Northern Ireland and Eire, Mancunium and others included the unaffiliated.

You can get details of The Gathering and links to tickets here.

Big thanks to you all for coming to celebrate our 20th rally and 25th year on the road…..and what a celebration it was! Also big thanks to the venue Hunters Quay and their parent company Cove Holidays for accommodating us, West Coast Harley Davidson our chapter sponsor and everyone that supported us to make the event what it was. Big shout out to Exceed Joinery for logistical support and sponsorship of entertainment.

Janice our Ladies of Harley Officer knocked it clean out the park with the LoH Prosecco Party and entertainment. It was meant to last 30 minutes, but the dancing went on for 2 hours and they and Edward Reid would still be there now were it not that the evening band Overdrive needed in to do their soundcheck!

Overdrive got the party started for everyone on the Friday evening before we blew off the cobwebs on Saturday morning with our unmatched 7 Lochs Ride Out.

We normally ride this with a Police escort but they never turned up this year so this put more load on our Road Crew to get a record number of bikes to Lochgoilhead for the barbeque. We had a few showers on the ride but as with the whole weekend the sun shone much of the time with the occasional short cloud burst now and then that never came close to dampening spirits. On arrival at Lochgoilhead we counted 106 bikes with 104 verified out the gate at Hunters Quay.

Then we had the loudest pipes back at rally HQ in the afternoon and I reckon that broke a few records and a few eardrums with Keith Milne’s lovely Road King blowing the spectators back across the car park…..what a noise!

Those who missed the ride out were entertained back at the patio bar by Gordon.

At night the show bar was packed for “Big Vern n the Shootahs” and what a party it was! Dancing room was extremely limited on the floor as everyone was up and we had groups dancing in any spare space they could find around the venue. And of course not forgetting Eric on the decks keeping the tunes coming when there were no bands on.

Onto Sunday and we opened the day with the Custom bike show with Keith Milne again clearing up with Best in Show after his loudest pipes success on Saturday. We had some lovely bikes and well done to everyone who entered whether they won a trophy or not, all were lovely bikes. Then we took the Sunday riders to Inverary where again we broke all records with over 80 bikes heading around Loch Fyne and most returning with us to the park after the Chips and Ice cream.

The fun continued in the afternoon with a packed programme, first Chapter Games, which were a lot of laughs with “caber tossing” ( Ok it was a 4 x 4 fence post), Haggis hurling ( a real live Haggis by the way we just clipped it wings off, but they grow back), and Limbo.

Then the more sedate and cultured event that is the Whisky tasting, and then to burn off the alcohol intake we ended Sunday with a belting performance by Emily J Clark who rocked us to a selection of Power Ballads.

What a weekend, I dunno about you but I went home shattered but still buzzing from an epic weekend and we have had lots of messages congratulating us on a brilliant rally…..until 2025!

We have literally hundreds of photos and you can see them all on our Flickr.