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- My Bike Models
- 1981 GL1100 “Rats Nest”
1998 GL1500c Val
1987 CBR1000f “The Pig”
1991 CBR1000f Red
Maurice rang me to see if I was going on the club ride to the Cafe Metz in Canungra on Sunday (12th of August) as he had the day off. That was all the excuse that I needed and even though Ruth wasn’t keen ( “but you rode to Springwood on Saturday”) I managed to get a leave pass by agreeing to install a new water hose reel at her Mum’s house. We met up at the Wineglass BP service ( gas) station at Browns Plains ( Regents Park) at 0830 for a 0900 departure. It turned out that there were only five of us ( Aaron arrived late and met us in Canungra) and only Maurice and myself were actually riding Vintage ( also Aaron it turned out). Well as there wasn’t any official ride captain in place I nominated myself with out any serious planning or careful consideration of the job.
I hate riding late on Sundays (normally at 0900 we would already finished breakfast and ready to head home before the dreaded Sunday drivers are everywhere) so all my fluid route planning was about finding winding roads and avoiding as much traffic as possible. First hitch was almost sailing past my left hand turn that required all the Rats Nests brakes to negotiate “ safely”. The next incident was pulling out in front of a 4x4 which I thought had led Maurice into a near death experience ( he assured me it was all good :heat: ) and finally a couple of wrong turns ( including later into someone’s driveway) before we all arrived safely in Canungra.
Maurice got bailed up by some weird bloke :smilie_happy: and his son (Gary and Clayton) as he tried to dismount his Oldwing . It turns out that Gary is a VJMC member from Tambourine Mountain who rode down to meet up with us at the Cafe on his custom Oldwing.
Two handsome multiple GL1000 owners! :hihihi:
We also caught up with Aaron who had flogged his 125/175 to catch up with us at the Cafe Metz after arriving late at the BP and due to our circuitous route had now been waiting anxiously for us to finally arrive. We were now eight which was perfect as how packed the cafe was now that it was 1030. While we were all fawning over the immaculate job that Gary had done on his custom bobber GL1000 a bloke pulled up on a new (picked it up yesterday) Ducati Diablo Cruiser which we all then had to have a look at (and 20 questions). :smilie_happy:
I hate riding late on Sundays (normally at 0900 we would already finished breakfast and ready to head home before the dreaded Sunday drivers are everywhere) so all my fluid route planning was about finding winding roads and avoiding as much traffic as possible. First hitch was almost sailing past my left hand turn that required all the Rats Nests brakes to negotiate “ safely”. The next incident was pulling out in front of a 4x4 which I thought had led Maurice into a near death experience ( he assured me it was all good :heat: ) and finally a couple of wrong turns ( including later into someone’s driveway) before we all arrived safely in Canungra.
Maurice got bailed up by some weird bloke :smilie_happy: and his son (Gary and Clayton) as he tried to dismount his Oldwing . It turns out that Gary is a VJMC member from Tambourine Mountain who rode down to meet up with us at the Cafe on his custom Oldwing.
We also caught up with Aaron who had flogged his 125/175 to catch up with us at the Cafe Metz after arriving late at the BP and due to our circuitous route had now been waiting anxiously for us to finally arrive. We were now eight which was perfect as how packed the cafe was now that it was 1030. While we were all fawning over the immaculate job that Gary had done on his custom bobber GL1000 a bloke pulled up on a new (picked it up yesterday) Ducati Diablo Cruiser which we all then had to have a look at (and 20 questions). :smilie_happy: