This will be a entirely new 4 day event  25-28 October and if successful may well be repeated, and as an Unofficial Event  (although listed here for convenience) there will be 3 individual night stop overs at  different motels, and you can ride what you like leave or join in at any time unlike official events that are more regulated with criteria of club eligible bikes, set rides, meals, and breakdown backup vehicles. It is up to you to organise meals, insurance, accommodation, or breakdown cover.

Basically start at Ampol Mill Park  9.00am for a  9.15 am departure, then on to  Olinda Creek Hotel  Lilydale by 10.00am to pick up any other participants onto Lakes Entrance RSL, 2nd day Omeo (Lunch), to  Myrtleford, 3rd day then onto Mansfield, 4th day ride home to Melbourne.

Gary Hogg is setting the ride so it will be good, the accommodation is listed below. Ride your new or old bike we are not being anal preferably anything thats reliable, there will be no back-up vehicle and I would suggest you get a RACV Total care cover,  you may wish to join in or leave this event at anytime which is fine.

Suggested Evening Accomodation 

Day 1 RSL  221 Esplanade Lakes Entrance 3909 phone 03 51551555 

Day 2 Railway Motel  101 Standish st Myrtleford 0423220810

Day 3 Mansfield Motel 3 Highett st Mansfield 3722 phone 03 57752377

 

 

This was on Facebook recently and as I have often said manufacturers have gone mad!

That’s a blown up BMW 1300 GS ( latest model in the GS family).

In my 20+ years of riding, I have witnessed adventure-seeking individuals being deceived by marketing tactics and purchasing large, expensive dual sport bikes. They come with accessories and electronics, just like the 1250 GS, 1200 Adventure, Super Tenere, and others. They look fantastic in the showroom or on paved roads.

While there are some owners who are adventurous enough to do some serious off-roading on these fat bikes, it’s unlikely that more than 10% of most owners are doing so. To be honest, the remaining 90% of overweight dual sport bike owners only purchased them after viewing an advertisement featuring a paid professional biker such as Dave Darcy from MadTV riding through sand dunes or the Colorado River.

And again, the manufacturers continue to make dual sport bikes bigger and more expensive. The ADV market has witnessed the rise of big bikes with big engines that are packed with as much nanny technology as a modern car. Air bags will soon be installed on fat dual sport bikes, like the one in the Goldwing.

All these excessive features lead to bloated and overweight bikes. Taking the bikes off road, and I mean really off-road, will be great until you lose control and they fall down or get stuck in mud. Hopefully you don’t break any expensive parts of your bike or worse yet break your leg because you dropped it, a 500-pound machine.

Regrettably, you are not Pol Tarres. You’re not going to be throwing your bike around like it’s a trial bike, and you’re not going to be picking up your ADV all day long on your off-road adventure.

Ever wondered why Itchy Boots chose a light weight Honda CRF 300 to transverse the world ?

This Tuesday night the AGM is on and Nomination forms have been out for 3 months already we have all position declaced vacant on the night and you can nominate up to just before the meeting starts at 8.00pm sharp. I’m nominating for Vice President unless someone else is desperate to do it as Andrew Ellis is stepping down, meanwhile we desperately need a Treasurer we havnt had one for a couple of years now so please put you name down if you feel you can add and subtract. Meanwhile winter is dragging on and I have a shoulder cup replacement operation coming up next week so no driving for 4 weeks or riding for 6 weeks, happy days

Yes winter and its cold, also school holidays, EOFY, and a recession, beside that and Zarkie’s heated motorcycle clothing doing a roaring trade there is the AGM coming up 30/07/24 this month. By the way those nomination forms are rolling in (just joking) for people wanting to stand for committee positions especially Treasurer please give this some consideration. Your Association will be paying for your meal only at the GrandView Hotel up to $25.00 for full financial members only so please attend and pay your subs if you have’nt already

Nomination Form 2024

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