Thanks for the directions, see you there. Looks like more rain tomorrow/Saturday but good Sunday.

My mate with the CB400 will ring me in the morning to let me know if he is coming. I said we could meet him at the Logan motorway exit onto the Pacific highway there somewhere at 8.30? He has to ride from the northside of Brisbane so I thought that would be better than making him meet us in Ipswich. Is there anyone else coming other than Mister, mole, me and maybe my friend? No other GS riders out there keen for a Sunday ride? What about your mate with the GS Mister?

Quote from: Twisted on October 15, 2010, 08:58:09 PM
My mate with the CB400 will ring me in the morning to let me know if he is coming. I said we could meet him at the Logan motorway exit onto the Pacific highway there somewhere at 8.30? He has to ride from the northside of Brisbane so I thought that would be better than making him meet us in Ipswich. Is there anyone else coming other than Mister, mole, me and maybe my friend? No other GS riders out there keen for a Sunday ride? What about your mate with the GS Mister?

Yep. He's coming. So all up there will be four GS500s.

If your CB400 friend comes tell him to pull into the BP at Yatala and we'll pick him up there - I think it's Exit 38, from Memory, but he should see the BP and Macca signs from the highway. It'll be safer than waiting somewhere on the side of the road.

If anyone else in Brisbane/Gold Coast is reading this and wants to tag along on your GS500 - Oct 17th 2010 - Send me a text at 0407 726 271. We'll be leaving Yamanto Maccas at 8am on the dot. Getting to Nerang Maccas around 9. Having a cuppa and then Heading off to Eltham for lunch - refuel at Murwillimbah. I'll give an additional and more-detailed Ride Brief at Nerang before we head off.

Michael

UPDATE to the message above...

After posting the above I figured I'd better check to see if our route or ride in general would be crossing any other rides...

Team Moto - All clear
Pro Motorcycles - All clear.
There is an MX ride at Tivoli - we won't be near it so no probs.
I figured I'd better check all the Ulysses Branches. I just found the Gold Coast Ulysses is riding to Eltham! A quick phone call to the ride coordinator... they meet at Nerang Maccas. Their Eltham ride will not leave until 10am - we'll already be gone. I have the name of the Ride Leader for the ride and will locate him when we arrive (assuming he is there early, and the coordinator said some of them get there Real early) so there won't be any confusion about our two rides leaving from the same place. The ride coordinator said their riders park all over the place. So Mole, still park opposite the drive-through pickup windows overlooking the Caltex.

Michael

Good call Micheal. All we need is a heap of old guys on mobile roadblocks holding us up 

Hey, I'm easily old enough to be a Ulysses member!

Nearly got a mate on an ST1100 to come along, but he has to work. Would have been fun showing him the way through the twisties.

Yeh but you ride a GS mole. You are ok.

Just checked some other Ulysses branches and Logan branch is riding down to Brunswick Heads. No idea on their route and they leave Wembley Rd Maccas at 8:30. So they Should be passed us by then. And they shouldn't be interfering on the twisties sections so all good.

Michael

The first step of the relay was completed today, I met Michael, David and David at Nerang (south of Brisbane) and we took a lot of nice twisty backroads down the Numinbah valley through Murwillumbah to Mullumbimby and on to lunch at the Eltham pub, then home via Bangalow while the others went back north on the highway. It was a stunning day for a ride, nice and sunny but not too hot and there were quite a lot of bikes around. No doubt Michael will be on here later to post some pics and prove that it did happen!
Thanks for the ride guys!

So who was the baton passed onto then?

The mole has it at the moment. Was an awesome ride but geesh my butt was stinging afterwards 

Hey, dread, how far north do you want to come? Do you know any GS riders between Byron and Sydney?

I'll be updating the main info post later with some route details. In the meantime...

When we were to leave for the meetup and there was just two of us, a guy came ambling over, looked at the bikes and said... "Twins, you know they stopped making them 15, 20 years ago cause they were too inefficient." "Well, that's an 05 and this is an 09." "Are they 600s?" "Nope, both 500s, the 650 twins are V, these are parallel." He ogled some more and wandered off.

Start - where we met up.



Not quite midway to lunch. The odd thing about this is... while you approach this you are riding in a valley - hills higher on either side. You round a corner and BLAMO, this is what you see. Absolutely breathtaking. There were some people there, but as soon as we pulled up they quickly got in their car and took off.



The Exchange Place - Eltham Pub. Shortly after the exchange the baton in new hands (or hand as you can see). Names and dates added. Lunch finished. Let's roll ramblers...



Adieu and adiós - we pull over for roadside farewells as we part company. Mole now has the baton.



We have The Shadow in Newcastle who is up for it, Mole.

Michael

P.S. In my haste to get this up I forgot the most important thing...

Thank You for coming on the ride

Will it need to be a sunny day for me to see the Shadow?

Quote from: the mole on October 17, 2010, 01:59:53 AM
Will it need to be a sunny day for me to see the Shadow?

Any ambient light will suffice.

And for those who are interested, here is a map of the Baton's journey so far...



To view a larger Google Map go here: http://tinyurl.com/369wt6k

Mole, when the baton is handed on from you, would you be able to add to the above map and repost please.

Michael

That's probably beyond my technical ability as an old fart, but with a bit of advice I might manage it!

Hi all

This is possibly the coolest idea I've heard for a while.

I'm based in Melbourne, so when it gets down here I'm sure I can muster a crew to take it along a leg 

T

If it ends up coming down the New England Highway I would be happy to meet up and help this worthy cause.

Sorry I don't know any gs riders besides me . I will do my bit when it comes within range. I have been known to ride(or drive if I can not fit it on the bike) stupid distances for cheap parts before so you never know.

Quote from: uninhibited on October 17, 2010, 06:26:07 PM
If it ends up coming down the New England Highway I would be happy to meet up and help this worthy cause.

Where are you based?