highland lassie Posted March 22, 2015 Report Share Posted March 22, 2015 There's a distinct lack of SSDT chat this year.....has everyone lost interest, or are you all too busy sorting your protein intakes to chat/gurn about it these days?! I miss the old banter! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Posted March 22, 2015 Report Share Posted March 22, 2015 It's going to rain. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gizza5 Posted March 22, 2015 Report Share Posted March 22, 2015 Not in the Arizona Desert it ain't? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baldilocks Posted March 22, 2015 Report Share Posted March 22, 2015 Its the big test for the Vertigo , must be this years biggest talking point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottishsteve Posted March 22, 2015 Report Share Posted March 22, 2015 it better be sunny. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laird387 Posted March 23, 2015 Report Share Posted March 23, 2015 How do you get your vertigo to be sunny.................... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laird387 Posted March 23, 2015 Report Share Posted March 23, 2015 Not in the Arizona Desert it ain't? Hi gizza, Just you wait - climate change is heading directly towards Low North and it will drop rain in Death Valley, California and Arizona on the way............. Might of course, take a while, 'cos the forecasters have been typically vague on the timescale............. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyrothers Posted March 23, 2015 Report Share Posted March 23, 2015 (edited) We'll be there. Smell of bacon cooking at leanachan? That'll be us. Edited March 23, 2015 by andyrothers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gizza5 Posted March 23, 2015 Report Share Posted March 23, 2015 Hi gizza, Just you wait - climate change is heading directly towards Low North and it will drop rain in Death Valley, California and Arizona... It'll be warm rain though !!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyboxer Posted March 23, 2015 Report Share Posted March 23, 2015 It'll be warm rain though !!! It's beautiful rain, watching the world's best Trial 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gizza5 Posted March 23, 2015 Report Share Posted March 23, 2015 Agreed Johnny.........miss it like crazy, but cannot be in two places at once, the years it snowed on the way up to Chairlift and it still has its appeal? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laird387 Posted March 29, 2015 Report Share Posted March 29, 2015 (edited) Hi, Might not be much chat about the SSDT this time around - but for sure there's plenty of people busy making their plans as to how to get there this time, where to watch (Leanachan seems an awkward spot to have to come to beg a bacon buttie..........) or simply just getting bikes ready for the fray. My activity is centred round putting together a series of features on the Pre-65 Scottish starting in the very next issue of my digital magazine, filled with dozens of photographs taken over the last few years - like the one of my old mate Malcolm Cocking from Oldham seen in the 2012 event that I am attaching to this post. And if you want to really look at what the Scottish has been about over all the years that it has been run, don't forget that ORRe already includes the complete history, fully illustrated, of the SSDT from 1909 on, serialised in the earlier issues - and when you take out a subscription you get immediate access to ALL of those back issues FOR FREE - yes, that's right, ALL of them. Whatever you are up to - let's hope the weather holds fair like it so often does - and that everyone thoroughly enjoys themselves. Cheers Deryk Wylde Edited March 29, 2015 by laird387 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bulltaco340 Posted March 29, 2015 Report Share Posted March 29, 2015 "There's a distinct lack of SSDT chat this year." Interesting to hear that, I thought SSDT and pre-65 chat on TC was absolutely dead last year and didn't seem to be much on the SSDT site either. I rather assumed it was all taking place on one of them new-fangled Twitter things or something?. Funny, but I also thought the events themselves seemed pretty low-key and lacking much of the old atmosphere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laird387 Posted April 2, 2015 Report Share Posted April 2, 2015 (edited) Hi, To help generate some SSDT chat - how about a puzzle picture to solve. Photographed by Jack Knoops in 2010 at the Pre-65 Scottish is rider number 56, which the entry list clearly identifies as Colin Bailey from Whitby on a Trifield 500. The bike is clearly an HT5 or HT3 Ariel, so is it a swop of bike, or a swop of rider and bike? We want to use the photograph (without the watermark) in a major feature on the Pre-65 Scottish in forthcoming ORRe digital magazines - but we only use accurate images (that is complete with correct captions), so please can anyone solve the problem, 'cos if we are not sure of the correct identification - we don't use it.............. Thanks in advance for your help, Deryk Wylde Edited April 3, 2015 by laird387 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottishsteve Posted April 3, 2015 Report Share Posted April 3, 2015 looking for rear number plates for the ssdt.i can only find the ones with the plastic brackets( some last some dont) is anyone selling lightweight metal ones ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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