Cossack Rally
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Organised by the Cossack Owners Club at a variety of venues. This is a very active club. Val Cropp used to hold one at the Three Magpies in Sells Green near Melksham in Wiltshire but my pictures are from one I did years ago at Dent.
Cossack Rally, Dent campsite
There are always interesting bikes at Cossack rallies, not necessarily Russian ones. There is a sort of overlap of members with the MZ Riders Club and the Panther owners which means you are guaranteed to meet some 'characters'.
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Pure-bred Cossack
I went to this one with Fat Barry Warrener who at one time had a Morris 1000 powered Ural outfit and Harry Herfield who was on 'Hagar', his 2CV powered Dnepr.
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Hagar
Camping was at the cheaper farm campsite in Dent and in my opinion better for it. On the Saturday there was a run out to Kirkby Lonsdale and then a visit to a Cossack member's house to see the four cylinder Ural outfit he was building.
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Val Cropp's waistcoat
Eating and drinking was in the fine hostelries of Dent and a good night was had by all. Sunday's ride home through the Yorkshire Dales was, as always, amazing
- Ted Trett