Rare vintages seen at ISDE Portugal

[Richard Simpson Mark II]

Thanks for the photos. Looks like a great event and certainly a bit warmer than it is here at the moment.
Cheers

The weather was a right mix, TBH, with cold rain in the mountains, and always windy. But not as cold as the UK: our takeoff from Bristol was delayed by snow!

[Richard Simpson Mark II]

Not rare, but good....

The lovely XR200R

Guaranteed to make you smile

[Richard Simpson Mark II]

I believe this picture is what young people call a selfie (you intrude on the personal space of someone more worthy than yourself and take a picture to circulate among your friends in a bid to make yourself look important).

Anyway, this is me and my bro flanking Bradley Mair of Witley MCC, who had just finished the main event (not the Vintage class, but all six days) on a 1981 Maico 490.

Proof indeed that the passing years just produce even more modern bikes to be humiliated by the mighty Maico. I think the bike must have been older than the rider.

Hero rider, hero bike.

[boboneleg]

I noted the Hathaway's trailer in the background, I thought they'd stopped doing bike transport.

[frenchy3]

The Cagiva 125 was one of the first liquid-cooled enduro bikes.

There was a convoluted arrangement of hoses and pipes to mount the radiator where the front number-plate should have been...god knows why as all that steered weight high up can have been of no help to anyone, and meant sticking the front light on the mudguard.

I think Yamaha,s first liquid cooled 125 motocrosser had the radiator mounted in the same place.

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[Richard Simpson Mark II]

I noted the Hathaway's trailer in the background, I thought they'd stopped doing bike transport.

There was a No Limits trackday on the main circuit, and there were a couple of Hathaway rigs there for that.