Thursday's Pie Ride - 8th April 2010

Collector Pie Shop (via Gunning)

Riders
Phil Dawes, - 2002 Yamaha FJR 1300
Jim Alexander, - BMW K75
Ernie Seary, - BMW R1150RT
Peter Davey, - 2009 Honda NT700V
Floyd Primmer, - 1983 BMW R80RT
Leonardo De Skipper, - 2007 Triumph T100
Steve Davey, - 2006 Moto Guzzi
Denis Murphy, - 1994 Z750 Zephyr

Apols
John Broad (fettling his Triumph), Stan Perry (crook as a dog), Lorraine Litster (on the lake with the ladies).

Report
Being a little sensitive to wet and cold, the hardy crew including three Corroboree frogs set off 24 hours late from the usual gathering place. The day was beautiful with almost no wind and presenting bright blue skies and fluffy cotton ball clouds - well worth the wait even for wet and cold loving frogs.

The route was up the highway at sub-legal pace with DJ up front, turning off to Sutton, through Gundaroo to a coffee stop at the Old Hume cafe at Gunning. Here Leonardo quickly responded to cries for help from the kitchen in opening a can that was firmly resisting giving up its contents.

After mugs of flat white and sticky muffins, the ride continued along the old Hume Highway (hey it's great riding now with its repairs) to Bredalbane then across on the lovely narrow windy road to Collector that place of ripening pumpkins, to a recently opened pie shop, written up in the CT.

Those with sufficient remaining where-with- all after the spend-up at Old Hume opted for the pot pies at $8.50 and although the chicken ones were a bit too salty the pork was fine. Others went conventional for the $7.50 Robertson quality pies.

While such rider behaviour is seldom reported, one of our numbers showed suspicious religious propensity with a cross that adorned every table. There were also some references to King Arthur and Sir Lancelot, and thoughts about whether this establishment was also used at night for medieval purposes other than scoffing pies.

The ride home included a stretch of the old highway by turning off just after the lake and rejoining at the tulip farm. This was a nice bit of windy road that must have brought much enjoyment to bikies of an earlier era, and to those today who still ride it. All up the ride went to 200k for those living in the deep south.

Denis Murphy
Photos courtesy of Leonardo
(pre-diet times into lamb bergers)