What a Day!
I met up with Mini_Kompressor at an earlier meeting point and we then cruised across town to the "Official" meeting point.
Ben (Mini_Kompressor) with Louise riding Shotgun & I (Tez) all arrived at the meeting point just on 10:00am and had just got ourselves parked when Perry (Holk) rode in on his bike - disappointed that his car was not ready - but came along anyway just to say G'day. Phil (Toy550) rolled in about 10:30 and we waited for others. (None arrived). Phil took a quick spin over to the Maccas on the other side of the highway, just in case someone was waiting for us on the wrong side, but returned alone.
Saw one other MB on the opposite side of the Higway in trouble - Phil stopped by to see if he could help - no driver present - big tyre woes - sorry we missed you) - A shame really - between us we had 12", 13" & 14"...
The weather was perfect.
The company, although few, were great (where were the rest of you?? - You missed a great cruise!)
The ride to Geelong and then on to Torquay was led by Toy550, with Mini_Kompressor following & I ran rear-guard. A leisurely 85-90kph run with no issues at all - Nice work Phil - some ducking & weaving as drivers overtook one other to get some nice action shots early on, but then settled down into a three-car convoy. Several people showed their respect & admiration with many thumbs up, grins and tooting of horns as we were passed.
In Torquay we turned off for the beach and were led to a nice reserve with BBQ facilities etc. where Ian (Flinny) had previously arrived with his son and already had their lunch on the go. Arrived approx 1:00pm.
Much discussion and comparing of notes was made, and a relaxing time had by all. None of us really wanted to head back, but time was ticking on, so a little after 2:30, lunch well done, and photos taken, Flinny led us out of the reserve and for a quick tour of Torquay before getting us back onto the SouthCoast Higway. The run back up to Melbourne was just as easy. At one point in Geelong we had Mightyboys spread across Princes Highway forming a rolling roadblock as Phil was in the left lane and Ben moved over into the right lane so Louise could get a better action shot of him, I closed up in the middle lane to hold back the traffic for a minute or so... As it should be - Mightyboys Rule!
Closer to Melbourne Toy550 turned off as Mini_Kompressor & I aimed for City-Link and a more direct run home than our trip over.
On the eastern side of City Link I peeled off at High Street Road and left Ben & Louise to complete their run home.
Talk was made of another run perhaps in February next year... If this run is anything to go by, I'll be in the next for sure!
Thanks for making the effort Phil - It was well planned, well executed, very easy, laid back and pleasurable. And some TAMON members names now have faces - and all nice people.
I've uploaded some pics here:
http://www.tamon.org/gallery/v/events/melbourne08/
Cheers
im out.
