About a dozen of us met up at Epping to join Mike’s amended (café closures due to school holidays) ride to Yara Glen.  It was quite a cool start to the day however it stayed dry and sunny as forecast.

Mike led on his Moto Guzzi,

Ian did TEC on his Suzuki,

we had a couple of Yamahas, lots of “boxers” and I rode my Honda as usual.

It was a very warm, sunny and also very blustery spring day in Melbourne today and about 20 people came out to Officer

to join the Branch ride exploring the Mornington Peninsula.  Jeff took on Tail End Duties.  It was great to see more of the newer faces becoming regular riders and Christian joined us for his first ride with Ulysses Club members today.

Once greetings, bike examinations and briefings were completed, we rode south through flat farmlands to Dalmore and then west to Devon Meadows and happily had very little traffic to deal with.  Then we skirted Westernport Bay to Somerville and used Bungower Road to Mornington where we got to see Port Phillip Bay.  It was very windy as we rode onto the Esplanade and there were lots of “white horses” on the water and the wind gusts toyed with us. The school holidays started this weekend, and…

We had a really good number of people come along on Colin’s

ride to Riddells Creek today including another first time rider plus some recent attendees coming back for more - Great. 

Once greetings and briefings were done, we rode off

with Sam doing TEC duty again and we did a tour of back roads to Healesville.  Then we rode up Myers Creek Road (very enjoyable around the 80- KPH speed limit with no traffic) to Toolangi where we encountered lots of bikes heading in the opposite direction.  Then it was more back roads

About a dozen of us

assembled at Lilydale for a shortish ride on Fathers’ Day.

The overnight weather hadn’t been good, and the roads remained wet enough to get all our bikes quite dirty by the time we finished the ride.  Mario’s shiny green Kawasaki was certainly showing some grime by the time we reached Gembrook