Camp hosts bike rally
After a number of years being hosted at Crieff’s Braidhaugh, the Vintage Motor Cycle Club’s annual motorcycle rally is moving to a new home - Cultybraggan Camp in Comrie.
The local section of the VMCC will be bringing around 90 elderly motor cycles and three-wheelers to Comrie over the weekend of August 6 and 7 and spectators are welcome to come along and see the action.
The bikes will gather at the Camp for 9am on Saturday and this is likely to be the best time to see them all together.
The guest starter for the event this year will be William Levack, vice-chair of the Comrie Development Trust and a retired senior army officer who once had Cultybraggan under his command. He will be officially waving the first bike off on the tour at exactly 10am. The rest will follow at one minute intervals as they set out on the road to cover the prepared 100 mile route around West Perthshire.
Spanning a production period beginning over 100 years ago, many of the elderly machines taking part are working examples from the pioneering period of motor cycle development. With the most recent participating machine dating from around 1990, much of the evolutionary history of motorcycling will be on display.
The route the motorcycles will follow on Saturday will see them pass several excellent vantage points for those who wish to see them in action. The best location for viewing will be at the start site at Cultybraggan between 9-11am and then again between 3-4.30pm as the machines return to base. Out on the road, the bikes might be spotted as they pass through the Sma’Glen and Aberfeldy in the morning then the Glen Ogle and Loch Earn areas in the afternoon.