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Switzerland Ranges Run Report |
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 Overnight thunder storms and heavy showers leading up to this day’s run was of some concern. The rain, still belting down post dawn was also a worry. However sometime after 8:00 am the rain magically ceased. It was quite pleasing to me to see 15 riders assembling at the start with another 2 joining us at Broadford. We had a rain free run and mostly under clear blue skies. The only rain we did have occurred as we were having morning tea inside the cafe at Broadford. It then obligingly ceased as we left on the next leg. I’m currently a work in progress and can’t ride for a while but am OK for driving a car. With a good mate beside me I was on back up duties.
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Midweek Ride Report April |
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A warm sunny day greeted us as we made our various ways to the starting point on Wellington Road at Rowville. Some of us had to negotiate Melbourne’s dysfunctional peak hour traffic to get there so we had our usual conversations about that, then Ed was briefing us on the days’ ride around the hills. Leaving on time we set off north for the Mt Dandenong Tourist Road, Kallista and then parts of the Belgrave-Gembrook road. This first section set the scene for the day – lovely winding roads through forest and ferny-glades with glimpses of misty hillsides through the trees.
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Midweek Ride Report March |
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 Twelve riders met at the start under slightly overcast skies in Narre Warren and we were soon on our way down the Princes Highway through Pakenham and Tynong. For Ed to have us gunning down the Princes Highway for over 40 klms I knew the end result would be worth it and of course it was.
We turned north onto the Jindivick road and then rode all around the Neerim areas having morning tea in Neerim South. Then it was down through Rokeby and heading East before crossing the Princes Hwy at Yarragon and riding up around the very picturesque areas of Cloverlea, Ellinbank, Tetoora, and Lardner.
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 This rally came into being following the cancellation due to extremely bad weather of the Mt Beauty –Omeo ride during the club’s Beechworth rally in 2011. Our second attempt this year was a great success and was mostly blessed by perfect motorcycling weather. Of the 45 bikes entered for the rally, 32 were classics – an indicator of a healthy club!
Friday: some of us met at New Gisborne on Friday at Bill McKibbin’s property to have a cuppa and admire his vehicle collection before following Burger cross-country to Bright via Mansfield and Whitfield.
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Geelong Ballarat Ride to Clarkefield |
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 As we left Mount Helen and headed down south towards Bunning under the guidance of our leed rider Charlie Maguire and wife Cathy in the sidecar we were bought to an unexpected halt, Cathy discovered they had misplaced their camera. After a quick search and discussion we decided to wait while they returned to the Krooze Café in search of it.
As luck happened it was there lying on the ground where the O/Fit had been parked, it appeared they had sat it on the mudguard of the trusty Ural and it dropped off as they rode away.
It wasn’t long and we were once again on our way traveling through the lovely country side behind Mt Bunning and onto Mt Egerton and then Ballan, to make up time we dropped onto the Western Freeway to Bacchus Marsh, exiting to Toolern Vale - Diggers Rest - Sunbury then Clarkefield to be greeted by the waiting Geelong riders.
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