This Train is about Gourock and my life experience here.
I ‘m a native of Ottawa, Ontario, but my home is now in Gourock, Scotland, with my wife Sharon and our baby Bruce.
I hope you enjoy the blog. Please feel free to leave comments: I like to know you’re there.
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This Train is for Gourock 
Just wanted to pass on my congratulations on an awesome blog site and also great choice in motorcycles…..been looking at a GTR for some time but cannot sever ties with current bike – Harley.
Your writing style is amazingly graphic and your riding principles and thoughts mirror my own – to a large extent , at least.
Again, great site and keep the site goin’.
Hi Michael! Thanks for the great feedback. It’s good to know people are reading (and enjoying) the blog. Keep coming back – there’s plenty more motorcycling coming up.
Great to see a nice blog from a fellow Gourockian 🙂 (I’m an ex-pat as well, although not from afar as Canada).
Glad to hear you like Goldfrapp. I got myself an iPhone 3G last year and I still think it’s my favourite gadget of all time. That’s a long love-affair with someone like me – I usually eat ipods & other gadgets for breakfast.
Anyway. I ramble. All the best.
Ali Ross (Tower Hill, Gourock).
hi , great blog came across it by chance , via mcn
i,ve afz1 fazer , like you i,m a kawasaki man .
but made the jump across , an don,t regret it !
the high screen ( yamaha one ) is ok but the short one is better
a extra inch or two on the standard one an it would be prefect for me ( i,m 5ft 9 ” )
the rush from the enging once over 6000 rpm , is great i,m like a kid in a sweet shop !
to think nearly 30 yrs of riding an finenally the perfect bike !!
its so easy to speed an maintain it for miles , well at least 130miles before the fuel light comes on !
i,m going down the route like yourself of fairing , an luggage so it becomes more like a mini fjr 1300 .
wellgot done for speeding ! 105mph , actually 130mph but they saw i was slowing down !
so easy a bike to ride fast ! , my licence maybe under pressure again !
i,m like you in a way a scot in exile in england !
great writing style you,ve got , keep up the blog !
especially on the fz1 ( most people look at it an think , oh another bandit style bike ! )
if only they knew ! , rather than chase looks an speed .
over practical , q-bike style !
Hi Ken,
Welcome to the blog. Stay tuned for more on motorcycling, featuring, of course, the FZ1…