It must be my early arrival at Berowra which set off a couple of “Oops! Moments” not long after our journey started, but overall, on such a perfect winter day, we had a great day’s riding, with almost no traffic on the river roads. With only one “virgin”, there was only one hand clapping. Then I asked riders to introduce themselves, but after about the sixth Peter, the repetition overcame us, so we abandoned that little exercise and twenty-odd riders departed Berowra  at 10am , with a Tail End Charlie and a “plan”. We all “squeezed” onto Number 1: Berowra Waters Ferry – and, just before disembarkation, my Guzzi toppled over in the excitement– thanks, Peter, Peter and Peter for your assistance. Next Oops – missed the turn-off to Wylds Road – quickly found the way back, and the remainder of our ride went to plan, thus: Just a minute past the Glenorie Bakery, our Morning Tea Stop at the Les Shore Reserve ticks all the boxes: it’s on the left, heaps of parking, heaps of log-seating, a ...

Today's ride was a short social ride to the abovementioned golf club for lunch. We had some time to kill, so we had coffee at the PITS, and then a ride to Smitty's lookout. That was very nice. Then I took us to the Central Coast Aero Club airfield. There we saw two gliders take off and land. They take off at a pretty steep 45 degree angle. I inquired as to the cost of a flight. It's $134 for one flight and $160 for two. After an informative talk by one of the members, we went for lunch. A nice ride and the weather was not too cold. Cheers, Suitcase.

  On arrival at Maccas McGraths Hill the temperature was a brisk 6 degrees but that did not deter 14 other riders from near and far. Simon Morgan turned up on a brand new Triumph Bonneville and volunteered to ride as TEC so he could take some time to familiarise himself with the new machine. Just prior to   10 o’clock   the briefing outlined a fairly straightforward route with a pit stop at the Grey Gum Cafe although not open for business   until Friday it still works well as a good half way point if you packed a drink and muesli bar. The question of Corner Marking was raised and although the only two intersections where we turn right to reach our destination are well signposted we would corner mark just to be sure. A brisk pace was set as we headed off up the Putty. The weather was perfect and virtually no traffic however there was a report of at least 4 lots of roadworks on the Live Traffic App but there turned out to be numerous work sites but we were only stopped...

  Well, what can I say, it seems beyond belief that for a second time the Morpeth ride has led to another rider coming to grief in the corners around Mandalong. This despite a specific reminder at the ride briefing about “not crashing”. Clearly at least one rider was not listening to my entreaties, in fact I also reminded the ride group we didn’t want any more drama queens following the previous tyre inflation issues and yet lo and behold another rider managed to lose their mobile phone off their bike before Spring rd. I mean REALLY?????   Anyway to start at the beginning the weather was perfect bar the start being a tad chilly for the gather in Berowra and 18 riders assembled without managing to find any more dead people or let all the air out of their tyres, an auspicious start I thought.   The briefing was concise with first up “Smoko is at Cooranbong    Park”, my logic here was that some riders only have a short attention span so if I start with that there i...

 It was a beautiful sunny if somewhat cool morning and nine eager riders assembled at St. Ives.  MTC took this photo at St. Ives with the sun at her back!!! MTC took this photo at St. Ives into the sun!!! We headed to the PITS to pick up two more riders making a huge "eleven" riders!!! We might need corner marking??? Naaaa everybody knows where we are going.  Morning tea at Jerry's, Kulnura. It was pretty busy but everybody was served in good time with coffee, portuguese tarts and other delights. Our illustrious group at Jerry's Kulnura ... unfortunately Andy was "cropped" by accident. Keith called the Khartoum Hotel in Kitchener to book a table for us just in case they were busy!! There was much serious discussion of world affairs as we consumed our sustenance. MTC announced it was "world chocolate day" which was greeted by a huge yawn. It's always some obscure day for MTC. I think she dreams them up just for the rides. Our next leg was to the...

Started out to be the perfect day for a ride, not a cloud in the sky as we gathered at McDonalds, McGraths Hill. Our destination today was to the Mt Piper Power Station.    There were no new riders to welcome, just the same old faces, so the briefing got underway  at 9.55am . 18 bikes headed off in search of more sunshine and amazing scenery, across the turf farms to Freemans Reach and onto Bells Line of Road, Kurmond to regroup near the BP Service Station.    We barely went 200 metres and had to stop for some serious roadworks. Should’ve checked my Live Traffic App because it could’ve easily been bypassed. A brief stop for roadworks at Mt Tomah. From Mt Wilson the weather changed as the temperature dropped and the clear sky was replaced with dark clouds.   As we descended into Lithgow the temperature went down to 7 degrees. Very disappointing. To avoid about 5 sets of traffic lights we took some back streets which in hindsight may not have been a great ide...