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Friday afternoon arrivals, filling up the yard.
I enjoyed to ride out to Bad Camberg to meet up with some of our guests, which of course meant coming back home the long way over some of the best roads most of us had riden all day : )
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Bimota YB11 in very modern black and white, nobody would know it's true age, when you see it like this.
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Ken showed off his bobbly tyre; result of a track day at Assen.
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Bimotas DB6 Delirio and DB7 tucked out of the way in the yard.
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But make a nice frame for a photo of the yard.
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Last arrivals, Nicolas and Yannick arriving with their Ducatis 916 and 996.
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Informal dinner was homemade lamb stew fresh from our local shepard, followed by homemade cheesecake with plenty of liquid refreshments from the 'help yourself' bar.
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Saturday morning- time to get back on the road as everybody sorts themselves out after breakfasting in the local hotels which were all full this weekend.
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There's no hurry.
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Arrival at Schotten.
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I can see you like the DB2.
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Maybe the most spectacular line up of bikes outside of the Schotten circuit area.
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Bimotas DB6, DB2, DB3 and DB7.
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Back home again in the evening after a long and hot day.
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Jürgen and Wolfgang found their own way over to visit us, along with a few more of our local friends.