Chomp and Chat to Moonrock Café –
Sunday 16th September 2012.
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| The crew at Tidbinbilla |
Participants:
Andrew and Catherine Campbell –
GL1800
Darryl Cullen - 1250 Bandit
John Dunn 1500 Goldwing Trike
Peter Schrieber – SV650
David Greig – Triumph T’Bird
Jen Woods – V Star
Denis Paulin – R1200GS
Larry Greetham – Honda Transalp 650
Alea Colquitt – Yamaha XVS650
Gary Dunne - Yamaha XT1200Z
Ian Paterson – GL1800
Steve Mills – SV650
Kevin Shanley – Bandit 1250
Shelley Shanley – ZX6R
Hartmut Kehm – R1200GS
Gary McDonald - BMW R100S ('77)
Trevor McLeod - FJR 1300
Jennifer Buchanan – Triumph
Bonneville T100
Mary Coutts – Kawasaki 1000
The weather was promising us a sunny 18
deg, but as we left home in foggy Belconnen I was finding that all a
bit hard to believe. However in true Canberra spring style, by the
time the ride got under way just after 10am, the fog had cleared and
although a bit cloudy it was a pleasant 12 deg!
Nineteen bikes and 1 pillion (moi)
gathered to hear the plan for the day. We had two new members on
their first ride with the club. Larry, who had taken up the fine art
of motorcycling only last year to enhance his brain plasticity and
Steve, who was returning to riding after a break. John Dunn also
brushed the cobwebs off his trike for the first time in a while. It
was great also to see Jen Woods on a ride (we do miss her) and she
brought along a friend Denis, who claimed he was the President of the
Ulysses club – as if!!!
Now I know you all know the way the way
to Moonrock via Uriarra so won’t bore you with details other than
to say that I don’t know why they have to run bike races(of the
treadly type) on those roads when we want to ride on a Sunday.
Never the less it was a great run there, got to check out the new
Cotter Dam wall (it’s BIG) and the twisties are always fun.
When we arrived at Moonrock Gary
realised that Larry was lost. So Gary went back to look for Larry.
The usual assortment of health food was
consumed (chips ARE a vegetable you know), tall tales were told and
the usual fun was had. By this stage we still hadn’t seen Larry or
Gary and as we had no Barry to go and look for Gary who had gone to
look for Larry, we were hoping they were OK. We had no way to contact
either of them as that big dish out there renders your mobile phone
useless.
Eventually Larry turned up – he’d
almost been to Wee Jasper, but didn’t seem too scared by his first
Ulysses ride. Gary was later found by Ian, still looking – he’s
like a St Bernard – never gives up til his man is found.
For most of us home was via the back
streets of Tuggeranong. By now the sun was shining through the clouds
and it felt very spring like – finally!!!
Catherine Campbell
