Near ideal weather for last Sunday's VMCC Wessex Veteran and Vintage Section's run tempted a decent number of bikes out to ride the lanes of Dorset. Start point was the very ideal restored platform of the Shillingstone Railway Project.
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| Sunbeam, Triumph and AJS line up on the platform with Hambledon Hill Iron Age fort in the background. |
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| AJS showing its big port. |
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| Triumph Model H. |
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| Triumph H with the traditional dispatch riders' dodge of a leather belt around the fork in case the spring breaks. |
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| Douglas in just the right condition. |
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| More of that Douglas. |
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| 1915 Harley Silent Gray Fellow combo and AJS G2 twin. |
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| Close up on the 1915 Harley. |
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| Coffee stop. |
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| Lovely Sunbeam 350 sv sports ridden by Gez Cater who turned up in period gear and runs a business making bespoke leather gear and toolboxes for vintage machinery. |
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| Very tasty BMW R57 stood out as way more advanced than the Brit machinery of the era. |
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| My Triumph Model N standing in front of a 'Yankee' type loco from Yugoslavia. |
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| Local interest club badge on a flat tank Raleigh. |
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| Side view of the BMW R57. |
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| The R57's rear brake operates on the drive shaft. |
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| Another R57 view just for the hell of it. |
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| Douglas featuring tartan relief on the petrol tank. |
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