[MELB] Festival of Italian Motorcycles 2008 (pics)

[ptooey]

[Dockstrada]

Very nice Ptooey 

1098 tricolor's, phfffff their as abundant arse holes 

[monstermick58]

Vewy, vewy noice!!








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[newrider]

yeah couldnt believe how many 1098's were there, and not many monsters, some pretty cool old cafe racers though. And that wierd arse new bimota tesi 3d , with the swingarm on both the front wheel as well as the back, strange times!
REally liked the fully restored black 900ss, very cool. Was good day for bike porn 

[ducmeister]

Yep, nice stuff.  Did think there were more Monsters than last year too.
Gotta get me a decent shed so I can build me one of them old singles ...

[G]

What an awesome day.

[sydmonster]

You have some very nice machinery down there! Thanks for the photos gang! How come so few Monsters!!! - Chris

[ptooey]

I only started taking most of these pics after the crowds cleared away enough for me to take full shots of em, which was about the same time the Duke bikes/riders were disappearing. Hmm, I wonder why... 

So maybe one of the reasons why there weren't many Monsters there-- they must've been the smart ones making use of the great weather and actually out on the road.

In any case yeah it was a good day, great turnout, but I'm surprised I didn't hear about it on this forum beforehand...

More shots from me and other people on flickr:
http://flickr.com/search/?q=festival+italian+motorcycles&z=t

[brad black]

it's just a lack of organisation.  years ago, when it was in lygon street, we organised a moto italiano (pre moto one days) ride from work into the show.  we had a shitload of bikes, and so many moto italiano rego plate surrounds thru the ducatis it wasn't funny.  i got to ride trev's lovely V7 special in - mine was still in bits at that point.  maybe it was late '95.