Roundabouts Detours and Roadworks
Posted: Sun 31 Mar, 2019 3:51 pm
A large group to the Sunday gathering today including a nervous R1250GS HP and a smug R100RS.
Guy was smiling like a rat with a gold tooth as the mob gathered around his full restored R100RS. At the other end of the panoply of parked bikes there was a throng around Robin's recently delivered R1250GS HP...who knows what challenging roads will be put under the wheels of his new steed that looks like its width has had a Kardashian influence. Our oldest active rider was showing pictures of his renovated bike on his newly acquired mobile phone, his first in his 85 year life. Ted also advised that he will be taking up competitive motocross once he gets his bike starting issues sorted.
Ten riders agreed to meander through the suburbs on the slowest of Bozo's rides. Kim, Wightman, DFS, Wes, Peter, Ted, Mark, Stoy, Swampy and Bozo took no heed of tales of cyclists infecting the hills and headed up the scarp at Lesmurdie to descend on Canning Mills Road. A commute on Tonkin Highway and a straight run on Rowley Road got us to Naval Base. Then through a busy Rockingham and Safety Bay to Miami Bakehouse. A stray yellow BMW arrived being ridden by Wightman's sibling who drilled Kim on his K1600GTL specs. Kim and Wes headed north and Ted and Kim went airhead hunting. The rest took the Estuary Drive and Southern Estuary Drive before heading west to Old Coast Road and doing a loop through Armstrong Hills. A nice bit of unsealed section on a 50kmph corner made the group take things easy.
Back via Mandurah Town Centre, past a booze bus, and a run up Old Mandurah Road to Sixty Eight Road. Sixty Eight Road was about 200 metres short of being a good choice for a route with a section being dug up and a 1,000 metre deviation with half a dozen roundabouts poorly signed as a detour.
A bit hot on the way back but the suburban ride gave some great coastal vistas.
Thanks to Swampy for being tail end Char for part of the ride and for Peter for finishing the duties.
Picture at Miami Bakehouse courtesy of Wightman to follow.
Bozo
Guy was smiling like a rat with a gold tooth as the mob gathered around his full restored R100RS. At the other end of the panoply of parked bikes there was a throng around Robin's recently delivered R1250GS HP...who knows what challenging roads will be put under the wheels of his new steed that looks like its width has had a Kardashian influence. Our oldest active rider was showing pictures of his renovated bike on his newly acquired mobile phone, his first in his 85 year life. Ted also advised that he will be taking up competitive motocross once he gets his bike starting issues sorted.
Ten riders agreed to meander through the suburbs on the slowest of Bozo's rides. Kim, Wightman, DFS, Wes, Peter, Ted, Mark, Stoy, Swampy and Bozo took no heed of tales of cyclists infecting the hills and headed up the scarp at Lesmurdie to descend on Canning Mills Road. A commute on Tonkin Highway and a straight run on Rowley Road got us to Naval Base. Then through a busy Rockingham and Safety Bay to Miami Bakehouse. A stray yellow BMW arrived being ridden by Wightman's sibling who drilled Kim on his K1600GTL specs. Kim and Wes headed north and Ted and Kim went airhead hunting. The rest took the Estuary Drive and Southern Estuary Drive before heading west to Old Coast Road and doing a loop through Armstrong Hills. A nice bit of unsealed section on a 50kmph corner made the group take things easy.
Back via Mandurah Town Centre, past a booze bus, and a run up Old Mandurah Road to Sixty Eight Road. Sixty Eight Road was about 200 metres short of being a good choice for a route with a section being dug up and a 1,000 metre deviation with half a dozen roundabouts poorly signed as a detour.
A bit hot on the way back but the suburban ride gave some great coastal vistas.
Thanks to Swampy for being tail end Char for part of the ride and for Peter for finishing the duties.
Picture at Miami Bakehouse courtesy of Wightman to follow.
Bozo
