Wednesday Ride Report – 6 May 2009

A social ride to Gunning via Collector

Roll Call:
Jim Alexander – BMW K75 (1985)
John Broad – Yamaha SR 500 (1979)
Ian Duvall – KTM 640 Supermotard (2004)
Graham Knox – BMW F800ST (2009)
Denis Murphy – Kawasaki Z500 (1980)
Stan Perry – Yamaha FJ1200 (1989)
Floyd Primmer – BMW R80RT (1983)
Ernie Seary – BMW 1150RT (2001)
Len Skipper – Triumph Bonneville T100 (2007)
Wayne Smith – Yamaha SR400 (2005)

Apologies: None

Rally point: 10.00am from the Shell Fuel Station at EPIC

A rather foggy start to our ride with a cool 6.5c temperature, we headed off on the Federal Highway the sun did manage to break through for about five minutes during the journey to Lake George and did clear by the time we reached the Collector turn off. We continued to Bredalbane village then onto the Old Barton Highway. The old road is slowly deteriorating with large pot holes appearing but, to my surprise we did pass a Council crew patching some of the more dangerous ones.

The group stopped at our usual Gunning stop, the ‘Old Hume Highway Café’. A pleasant time was had by all with the usual good food and enjoyable conversation. The weather cleared up to a nice sunny day for our return journey. I had to be back home to pick my grandson up from school, so we left around 1.00pm.

Our ride home was via Gundaroo and Sutton, the new bridge works just outside Gunning is progressing well with half of the road span beams now laid and remaining beams now delivered on site ready for installation. The group travelled 175km and home by about 2.15pm.

Len Skipper
13 May 2009