Well I don't mind saying it we got lost sort of and not just once. The planned ride was abridged several times before I ran out of time and had to head home. Several of the group tried to complete the ride over Mt G but I'm yet to hear how that went. I'm pleased to welcome Grant (Duc 800SS) and Stuart (Aprilia 250) as first timers to the group. I hope it's the first of many group rides with us, boys. Grant and I go back to first grade but haven't been in touch for about 30 years, so it's good to catch up especially with someone who appreciates the fine Italian two wheeled marque. We need more Ducati devotees to even up numbers with those german tractors.
All was great except for the icy conditions in the ride to Flavours Cafe. The food was again very good and the air conditioned rooms with fire were well received. After thawing out and eating brekkie we rode past Maroon Dam to Rathdowney and then onto the Lions Road before turning left to Innisplain. That's where I started to lose my bearings a little. We should have taken that side road to the right before the highway but instead we proceeded to the highway and took the turn to Christmas Creek at Tamrookum. This lead us to a ''T" junction where we should have gone right, but we went left instead and then joined the highway again at Laravale instead of riding through Christmas Creek and Kerry. This meant we made good time getting to Beaudesert where we refuelled. We lost some riders here before we took on the old favourite Boonah Beaudesert connection road. That road is always a good ride except when held up by traffic, which we got more of our share than usual. We then turned right and then took the Roadvale turn and ended up at Kalbar which was planned, but there we hit another ''T'' junction and went right which was in the plans but instead of taking a left to the Cunningham Highway we got lost again. This time we didn't make up time in fact we lost all the made up time from the last ''lost". From Kalbar we went to Harrisville before finally making it to Warrill View. Then we hit some great roads again before the stop at the Rosevale Pub. After the discovery of a bit of steel belt protruding from Adrian's rear tyre, we had a quick refresher and then started the homeward leg through MtWalker some going on to Marburg, Glamorgan Vale, Fernvale and Mt G I believe, while the rest of us headed via Amberley to home or to Springwood Suzuki where Adrian was lucky enough to sweet talk his way to the fitting of a new tyre after the shop had closed. Well done there the boys from Tony Armstrong's. Obviously we need to do some work on this route before we try it again. The numbers were up again I think we had 13. Those who rode were, Grant, Stuart, Kim, Neil, Andrew, Adrian, Steve, Dan, Dave, Craig, Bernie, Mike and Ken.
All was great except for the icy conditions in the ride to Flavours Cafe. The food was again very good and the air conditioned rooms with fire were well received. After thawing out and eating brekkie we rode past Maroon Dam to Rathdowney and then onto the Lions Road before turning left to Innisplain. That's where I started to lose my bearings a little. We should have taken that side road to the right before the highway but instead we proceeded to the highway and took the turn to Christmas Creek at Tamrookum. This lead us to a ''T" junction where we should have gone right, but we went left instead and then joined the highway again at Laravale instead of riding through Christmas Creek and Kerry. This meant we made good time getting to Beaudesert where we refuelled. We lost some riders here before we took on the old favourite Boonah Beaudesert connection road. That road is always a good ride except when held up by traffic, which we got more of our share than usual. We then turned right and then took the Roadvale turn and ended up at Kalbar which was planned, but there we hit another ''T'' junction and went right which was in the plans but instead of taking a left to the Cunningham Highway we got lost again. This time we didn't make up time in fact we lost all the made up time from the last ''lost". From Kalbar we went to Harrisville before finally making it to Warrill View. Then we hit some great roads again before the stop at the Rosevale Pub. After the discovery of a bit of steel belt protruding from Adrian's rear tyre, we had a quick refresher and then started the homeward leg through MtWalker some going on to Marburg, Glamorgan Vale, Fernvale and Mt G I believe, while the rest of us headed via Amberley to home or to Springwood Suzuki where Adrian was lucky enough to sweet talk his way to the fitting of a new tyre after the shop had closed. Well done there the boys from Tony Armstrong's. Obviously we need to do some work on this route before we try it again. The numbers were up again I think we had 13. Those who rode were, Grant, Stuart, Kim, Neil, Andrew, Adrian, Steve, Dan, Dave, Craig, Bernie, Mike and Ken.
