Well Christmas is here. Man did that year fly by. It only seems like a few days ago I got the garage finished and commenced getting it fitted out. But it's all done now and a few bikes have seen their way through its doors. It is absolutely pissing down outside, not really the weather for riding, but there is still a couple of bikes to do, so may as well head out to the shed and see if I cant get one of the Paso's to run. I've got a BMW R Nine T up for sale at the moment and my 851 is on the block as well. The T3 is running beautifully, although yesterday while out on a ride it sucked a Mikuni filter in and broke the rubber seal, luckily I had a spare set to replace that one with. Never had that before, I mean they are usually pretty good quality, but the rubber edge seal let go and it folded itself off. Still ran OK. Shit I love the Guzzi, it's not a fast bike by any stretch of the imagination, but it just runs along nice and smooth. A very pleasant and vastly underrated motorcycle. Don't think there will be too much riding in the next few days and over the Christmas break if the weather keeps up like it is. So here's the Christmas blog, as usual this one is a bit bigger, so for all you parents who can't ride because of family duties, grab this installment, go find a quiet tree to shade under and spend an hour or so getting your Christmas motorcycle fix in. I got a message the other day from a group that I meet while in Italy a few years ago ( shit it was to, a few years I mean). They project the blog onto their clubhouse wall when they have gatherings. I got to thinking there is more than a few hundred of them and each one has 150-200 odd images, so that's an awful lot of viewing. Good on them. So Marry Christmas to you all, I hope you all have a great time with family and friends. Enjoy.

Andrew, out with his boys, giving them a few pointers. I don't know how this guy jumps on any motorcycle and rides the way he does.

 

Still the best looking motorcycle ever produced

To follow are some very well done images of this years MotoGp. Just stunning images, enjoy

Just so so nice to gaze at.

Love this bike.

I would say that in 25 years time they will look upon these the same way people look upon the 70's Ducati as we do today.

Another very very pretty motorcycle, almost along side the 916 really. We were blessed that these came out in our time. 

Man these guys are taking it to the extremes.

What a great looking motorcycle, well done that man.

This image kind of sums up my year really, or at least how it ended anyway.

So that's me for the year. Sorry about the intermittent releasing of the blog over the past few months, that's all I have to say about that. Merry Christmas and have a great new year. I'm putting my faith in the hope that next year will be a better one.