Wednesday, May 22, 2013

May Ride..a cold autumn morning,beautiful blue skies and some motorcycle culture

Our great May's ride was put together by our guest planner...Leigh McQueeney and included some surprises and firsts. We awoke to a chilly autumn but beautiful crystal blue sky's.... that saw the support vehicles stay tucked in bed and some 16 bikers, a few newbies and bikes join us for a great ride in the south east.

Leigh with his ???? bike an MV Agusta

Ruben and Jenna on a sweet yellow machine
another cool Harley
Dave, dreaming what its like an italian sports bike

 We enjoyed Leigh's pre-ride sermon,preching the good news re safe riding is always difficult when you are a little short but Leigh worked that one out too.
Leigh holding their court
a preacher to his heart

Once we had all been briefed it was off to Brisbane's West-end for some bike culture and our first cup of coffee for the day at Ellaspede Motorcycles.


 we enjoy  a great coffee and good conversation as we met up with a 15 or so of Leigh's rider network called "newbies" , that made over 30 bikes in the group ..biggest ever and one need lots of organising. Great to meet other bike lovers making the it a great collection of makes , models and ages.So we headed off out of the city, navigating our way out through samford village and up mount Glorious...a first for some of us.




a couple of good looking blokes

Barry, a rebel at heart shows his real tats

So we made it out of the city and up the mountain, the air was cool and crisp and the hot chocolate and muffin 
bikes lined up at Mt Glorious

the lads enjoying a some good conversation


Malcom X,aka,Leigh enjoy a well earned bundy
who is this BMW pensioner???

We all enjoyed the catch up at Glorious and some headed off back to Brisbane as thew remainder prepared to make our way down the mountain and through come great sweeping turns , past the obligatory highway patrol to the famous Fernvale Bakery.

beautiful ride down Glorious

down to some sweeping curves

some long straights

Made it safely to Fermvale..with only slight altercation with constabulary

Peter and Dave enjoy some pastries and conversation

Leigh had some explaining to do regarding his two police "warnings"... being the ride leader and all...so he put forward his case and waited for the jury to deliver the verdict. (see below)

Check a quick video of the the ride below.....