Pillion
Ride Saturday 11th
April, 2009
|
John
Rousseaux & Kate Stewart |
Honda
CBR1000 |
Jacinta
Thomas |
Honda
CBR900 |
|
Dennis
& Bianca Lindemann |
Honda
CBR600 |
|
3 bikes, 4 people |
Bianca and I got up early - way too early for
Bianca’s taste - to make our way to the
starting point at Yarra Glen. We arrived at 9.30am to fill up and saw Geoff
Shugg at the servo. I parked the bike at the usual spot and waited for the rest
to arrive. Rode the ride one last time in my head. No worries! Let them come.
Geoff asked where we were going and then
said he’ll be in Broadford for the bike show. John and Kate arrived a couple of
minutes later asking where we were heading and that we might meet them at the first
stop in Healesville. They had their own trip planned, and then took off. Next
one to arrive was Jacinta. Looking at the amount of people who had turned up so
far, she wondered whether it was worth doing a ride. Bianca and I, or mostly
me, were going anyway, so she followed us along the Old Healesville Road to
Healesville, up through Chum Creek, Toolangi and down Myers Creek Road back to
Healesville.
We stopped at the Bakery where Kate and John had
also just arrived. We all sat down for food, drinks and bike talk. Jacinta left
us here (thanks for rear riding, great effort keeping the group together!) John
and Kate were nominated as new rear riders from here and duly followed Bianca
and I through the Black Spur until the turn off to Marysville, at which point
they continued on.
All the responsibilities, leading the ride and
being rear rider, were in now in my capable hands. We followed the road up to
Alexandra to stop for fuel and then made our way towards the Flowerdale Hotel
for lunch. The weather was simply perfect with hardly any traffic on the roads.
There were quite a few locals at the hotel,
getting either their liquid supplies for the Easter weekend or just consuming
it on the spot. After finishing the
Thanks to everyone for rear riding J
Dennis Lindemann