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#1 schmo9

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Posted 29 May 2016 - 05:19 pm

Not posted for a while..building bikes n stuff but went out today and done the Oban loop,Inveraray..Loch Gilphead..Crinan canal. Fabulous weather...

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#2 bfb1150gs

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Posted 29 May 2016 - 06:46 pm

i love your bike and so want to paint mine the same way but dont like to copy :) even though i have copied your wonderfully simple way of mounting your spotlamps :)

 

i love scotland and you are lucky to be close to that area ....it's going to be a 10 and half hour drive for me when i go to spean bridge in august on my photography holiday :(



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Posted 29 May 2016 - 06:53 pm

It is a damn fine bike, If Heineken made Rambo a bike it would be this.



#4 schmo9

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Posted 29 May 2016 - 06:56 pm

i love your bike and so want to paint mine the same way but dont like to copy :) even though i have copied your wonderfully simple way of mounting your spotlamps :)
 
i love scotland and you are lucky to be close to that area ....it's going to be a 10 and half hour drive for me when i go to spean bridge in august on my photography holiday :(

Give us a shout when your up that way...see if I'm about

It is a damn fine bike, If Heineken made Rambo a bike it would be this.


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Posted 29 May 2016 - 07:08 pm

 

Give us a shout when your up that way...see if I'm about

i wish i was on the bike but i will be in the car :( ..to much gear to lug about .....if had a towhitch and a trailer ..i'd be on my way to applecross in a heartbeat..driven it 3 times but never on a bike :( but its not to be so i will have to be happy with the car and hope i dont get eaten alive by midges



#6 schmo9

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Posted 29 May 2016 - 07:16 pm

That's a damn shame...a damn shame I say

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Posted 29 May 2016 - 10:05 pm

Great pics - lovely area


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Posted 29 May 2016 - 10:25 pm

Thanks for sharing  :clapping:



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Posted 30 May 2016 - 10:06 am

Thanks for sharing  :clapping:

 

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Posted 06 June 2016 - 05:09 pm

Did 'the loop' myself in April so your pics are bring back recent memories. Thanks for posting. Looks like cracking weather!

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Posted 22 September 2016 - 02:20 pm

Sorry for the late reply but just browsing through and saw the thread, is that first pic riverside petrol station in Lochgilphead? Lived up that way for a time.

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Posted 22 September 2016 - 09:09 pm

First pic (no river) is Inveraray, just behind the arch. https://www.google.c...!7i13312!8i6656

 

Second is beside the Crinan Canal unless I'm mistaken.

 

 


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Posted 23 September 2016 - 06:07 am

First pic (no river) is Inveraray, just behind the arch. https://www.google.c...!7i13312!8i6656
 
Second is beside the Crinan Canal unless I'm mistaken.

Oh aye,so tis..... second ones definitely Crinan, used to be up and down that road a lot.

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Posted 09 October 2016 - 01:43 am

Whats make/model is the Screen you have ? Looks one piece  :good:



#15 schmo9

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Posted 07 November 2016 - 09:43 pm

Look at this on eBay http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/331968985064

This is the screen..

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Posted 11 November 2016 - 05:17 pm

Just catching up as I've not been on Carpe for a long while  (no bikes anymore) .  I've seen your bike around the Glasgow area but I can't remember where. It suits the Olive drab. And the screen is nice , I had the same one on my Mk 1 ...




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#17 schmo9

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Posted 12 November 2016 - 07:54 pm

Cheers....yeah the green and black and throw in some off road tyres really makes the bike pop 👍


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