Idiot on a motorbike

Great Scottish Driving Roads - Banchory to Fettercairn

New look on the Ibiza fr

So I have been toying with the idea of adding more red onto the car somehow. So I stole an idea from the Mercedes A-c lass and put a red highlight on the car. I found some red carbon fibre wrap online but it wasn't a  great success as the wrap is too thick and doesn't sit well on the car. So I am possibly going to redo it in a slightly darker matt red.  What do you think?

Gumball 3000 in Scotland

So, did anyone else see the madness in Edinburgh at the weekend?

Summers Coming!

So as it does every year, the days get longer, and the weather gradually improves so we can start to get all the amazing cars that we have been lovingly nurturing over the winter back on display for our fellow petrol heads for admire and enjoy with us.

I was through in Elgin yesterday for the Speyside Stages rally which kicked off in Cooper Park and it filled me with pride to see such a large turn out for the event. As it was Scotland, the weather was hardly favourable however, all manner of ages turned out to brave the elements and enjoy what was a great spectacle! The cars were great and there were some real drama, with  burning rubber to get the blood going!

its great to see events like these in small towns around scotland and not just in the big cities! I urge anyone who can, go along and support these events!

I will post my video of the day soon!

Who was at Top Marques?

Wish I could have been there! Top Marques looks like such an amazing event! Hopefully make it there in the next couple of years! For now ill just live with views like this...

Thanks guys!

My first grown up car.

So, after the devastating loss of my ford ka. I used the insurance money to put a deposit down on a new car. When I say new i don't mean new to me, I mean brand new. 15 miles on the clock when I got it. And what was this new, new car? Why, it was a VW polo of course! A 1.4 polo match to be exact and it was possibly the most grown up thing I owned, exept maybe the 21 year bottle of scotch I got for my christening when I was 5 years old.

It was just such a sensible car. Great, please don't think it was a bad car because it really wasn't. But very sensible. The layout of the cabin was exactly as you would expect from a german car company. Very logical and well presented, and the outside was very serious but very modern. I loved it. I was split between the polo and the fiesta but I found the fiestas dash too fiddly. So I went with the adult car.

The polo was a world of difference to the hoot of the KA. Much more comfortable, much better built and way more refined in every way. I could cruise down to Glasgow without my ears bleeding and my palms sweating. I got to test it in every way over the 2 and a half years I had it. I got my first speeding ticket in it. I did the west coast and northern Ireland. My girlfriend did her first lessons in it. VW really did an amazing job with the polo.

However, I discovered I may have been a little hasty in my need to grow up. I found myself looking around at the dash in traffic, wishing there was just a little bit more fun around. Also when I was around town the engine just didn't quite have the grunt the KA did. It was still a strong puller but I had become used to the force of the little KA.

In an attempt to get a little more life of the engine I fitted an induction kit. And it worked, to a point. Certainly the engine sounded a better and the torque band was wider. However it still lacked the ungency I craved. So I decided to go for something a little more wild.