To those coming, see you all in the morning.

There may have been a dusting of snow atop Hotham today. None forecast for tomorrow, but temperature below 10 degrees as we cross the top, so dress warm. Being cold can bring on fatigue more quickly.

Despite all the media hype, I'm not aware of any fuel supply issues on our route apart from price. First stop will be at Timberline in Heyfield where those with limited range can top up.  A local friend will meet us there and escort us through to Bruthen the back way (not via Bairnsdale) and a fill up is recommended at Bruthen to get us over the mountain. Petrol is available at Swifts Creek and/or Omeo for those with limited range.

A fill up at Mt Beauty is recommended on Saturday arvo before we settle in at Tawonga for the night.

Sunday morning - earlyish…

I received this December 1992 “Riding On” magazine when I joined the Ulysses Club.

It was all in black and white apart from a bit of red on the cover, which featured a photo supplied by Peter (The Bear) Thoeming and which depicted a “then new wave” Triumph Trophy with a bread stick on the rack while on a trip in Europe.

The Riding On editor was the then club president Tom Dudley.  It featured news reports and ride calendars from about a dozen branches including Melbourne and the late Bob Tate was our branch president.  It also featured a travel story and details of the planned Shepparton AGM written by Noreen Miles. Happily, she came to the Melbourne Branch 30th Anniversary in 2014 at Korumburra.

The ride start points were Dandenong, Bunker Hill, Lilydale and Melton (only Lilydale remains unchanged) and the social nights were held at the Post…

Hello,

in case you haven’t heard, Andrew has stepped down and I’m the ride coordinator for this year.   

Melbourne Branch remains unique in maintaining a very active Sunday ride calendar and has been doing so for 40 years now.

Committee members have been very active in organising this and leading rides, but I will add that it is not just up to committee members to actually lead rides.  The more members we have do this, the more variety we get on rides and the easier it is to fill the ride calendar.  Even if 6 – 10 regular ride participants led one or two rides a year, it really would help share the load.

I’m not pretending it is simple and I wouldn’t recommend volunteering to lead rides if you’re not experienced in taking part in branch rides.    I understand that some members just wouldn’t be comfortable doing it,…