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EDITOR:.............Bevan Bradford Phone: 07 3822 3512 Mobile 0408 714 000 E-Mail: mail @ auswingriders.com Wing Notes is produced with the
object of keeping members informed about matters of interest to AWRA
members. A electronic copy of each
issue is available to every financial member of the AWRA. Copies are also distributed to selected motorcycle
dealers in the greater |
Submissions for inclusion in Wing Notes should be with the Editor no later than the Friday following the monthly meeting, i.e.: Friday after the 1st Monday of the month. DISCLAIMER: Although Wing Notes will endeavour to reproduce submissions in their original form it reserves the right to edit submissions as it sees fit. Views expressed in contributed articles in Wing Notes are not necessarily those of the AWRA or the Editor. Wing Notes is produced with care, in good faith and from sources believed to be accurate at the time of writing. |
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Management
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Meetings: |
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President E-mail: |
Secretary Val Thomas (07) 3848 0498 E-mail: secretary @ auswingriders.com |
Meetings are held on the 1st Monday of every month |
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Vice President Rob (Bear) Harriss 0409 052 218 E-mail: RHMRS @ iinet.com.au |
Treasurer E-mail: meady @ auswingriders.com |
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Ideas for those who consider their current trailer too small |
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17th September 22nd – 24th Sept Biker’s Dream weekend 2nd October October General Meeting 15th October Ride through Mt Glorious. Mt Mee,
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A
lady was picking through the frozen turkeys at the grocery store but she
couldn't find one big enough for her family. She asked a stock boy, "Do
these turkeys get any bigger?" The
stock boy replied, "No ma'am, they're dead." |
Speedsters The
cop got out of his car and the kid who was stopped for speeding rolled down
his window. "I've been waiting for you all day," the cop said. The
kid replied, "Yeah, well I got here as fast as I could." When the
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The President Speaks…. |
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G’day everyone First
up, let me thank everyone who has contributed to this month’s magazine. Not just stories but with interesting
snippets of information that I reckon you’ll be interested in. Now
to apologise for being late. I should
have been ready last weekend but due to some personal things I had to do and
some work requirements that made late evening shifts on the mag a bit
difficult, I just haven’t had a chance to get it done. What
a couple of weeks we’ve had. First
Steve Irwin followed by Peter Brock.
Both men extremely well respected across the world. Each so different
yet so similar. Sure, one was a loud
in-your-face type of guy, the other a quieter, personable bloke with time for
all his fans. Both entertainers who
excelled at what they did. Each
recognised by the public and their peers as being one of the best in their
fields. A
strange coincidence was that although born in differing years, there was 4
days between their birthdays and now there is 4 days between their deaths. Just
as I did, I’m sure there are many of you out there about my age that grew up
watching Peter Brock drive and were still following his activities to this
day. While
it really is a bit of a cliché, in this case both men died doing what they
enjoyed most. Long may they be
remembered. To
top it off, a mate of mine ran into the back of a car recently, wrote the
bike off and ended up with a broken collar bone. He reckons that Val’s shoulder must have
hurt ‘cause his does and it’s not as bad as hers. Ride
safe and keep the shiny side up. ‘Till
next month, Happy reading. Bevan |
Hi all, There
are plenty of Wing Riders in the world today.
Lots of them are computer savvy as well. Subsequently there are many GoldWing
websites out there, too many to mention.
Just enter GoldWing in Google and you’ll see what I mean. But
try Wing Riders and we get top billing with our site. Note that we are hosted on a One
I found recently is wingridersboard.com which is a If
you go to any of these forum sites, look out for Clintsc9. That’s me.
I use the same userID on all the forums I participate in. It
is all good fun and you can pick up lots of hints and tips along the
way. You can also come across some
very strange ideas too, so it is best to keep an open mind and run everything
you read on the internet past your own personal BS detector. Happy
surfing. Clint |
Hello everyone, Excellent
result this month, following a very pleasant ‘rekky ride’ to Parties seem to be the main theme for the
next couple of months, and we are looking forward to all of them. It is that time of the year as well, so
watch out for those reckless drivers.
Thommo and I have been seeing a lot of ‘silly’ and thoughtless drivers
lately, and that has been just while we are commuting to and from work! Club filing is up to date, so my desk is
looking tidier than Thommo’s. Look
forward to seeing you all at the next ride, social and/or monthly meeting. Meanwhile, safe riding. Safe
riding everyone. ValerieandThommo |
Rewarding Rekky Ride. A decision on our This ride followed a very hectic and loud night at
Strike Bowling venue in Surfers Paradise. I certainly cannot comment on the
bowling antics that evening as I couldn’t bowl, but the brightly coloured
balls together with the video screens and loud music certainly made for a
very entertaining evening! I believe our club numbers overwhelmed the bar,
our meal orders took an extremely long time to be fulfilled. |
The Carters took
the lead as they had a place to check-out as well on Bribie. What a glorious
day we have for a ride, and we cruised easily up the highway. Over the Bribie
bridge and then it was the handy u-turn on the roundabout to turn into the
Bribie Waterways Motel. What a pleasant layout, overlooking the water, pool
and restaurant and we considered that we could possibly book the whole Motel
and have total privacy! We made a tentative booking, with the comment that we
would confirm later that day following our checking-out the other venue. So we duly rode over to
the ocean side to check-out the Big 4 Caravan Park, but we must admit we
pulled up at the gates and made the immediate decision that the Motel was a
much more attractive choice for our group to enjoy the intimate locality for
our party. Our next major decision was food – and we were going to check- |
To
the point that some of our members were refunded for the delay, and just started
to enjoy their burgers when the games had started. The skittles were falling
until Consequently, Thommo and I
were very slow Sunday morning but we made it on time to Caboolture to find 7
bikes waiting for us! What a roll-up – Charleen on the 1800 Red, Meady, BillandMary, BevanandTherese, LarryandAnnette, |
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out the RSL which was
also a possibility for our evening meals. A very enjoyable ride along the
esplanade and we made it to the RSL just in time for a very appetising and
reasonably priced lunch. We confirmed the booking with the Waterways Motel
for the weekend 2nd December. So
folks, that is our |
happening on the island.
Very impressive and expensive, but give me good old Brizzie any day! It could have been the hectic night life
last night, but we were all ready to head for home at |
thanks to everyone who
contributed to that great ride. Thommo did not wash the car, and I just made
a cuppa and we duly napped in our respective chairs! What a week-end. Thommo and Valerie. |
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We all sat down and had a
drink and more and more bikes turned up, in total 13 bikes and 1 more to pick
up in We headed off from the BP and travelled down the
highway to |
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We arrived at STRIKE Bowl around Around |
time at night. Finally I got everyone up to I hope you all had a great night, I know I did and
Makiko and Kyle as well. (Makiko should come on more rides but she is so
BUSY). Bugger!! So from me, thanks for coming and next time we shall
go to a normal Bowling alley and have some more fun together as I think we
all enjoyed the night and each others company. Thanks MEADY |
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The Immutable Laws of Motorcycling ·
Motorcycling is
not dangerous. Crashing is what is dangerous. ·
Learn from the mistakes
of others. You won’t live long enough to make them all yourself. ·
You start with
a bag of luck and an empty bag of experience. The trick is to fill the bag of
experience before you empty the bag of luck. ·
Good judgment
comes from experience. Unfortunately the experience usually comes from bad
judgment. ·
Keep scanning
and doing head checks. There is always something you have missed. ·
If you wear an
open face helmet, avoid crashing face down. |
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In the ongoing
battle between motorcycles travelling at high speeds and the ground
travelling at zero, the ground has yet to lose. ·
In the ongoing
battle between vehicles weighing over a tonne and motorcycles weighing less
than a tonne, the rule of weight applies. ·
The only time you
have too much fuel is when you are on fire. ·
Tests have
shown that good leathers slide on bitumen for 80 metres before wearing
through. Denim slides 8 metres and everything else is worse than that. Only
wear denim for short slides. ·
It is always a
good idea to keep the end with the large light going forwards as much as
possible ·
Stay out of fog
(clouds). The silver lining is probably a Mercedes. |
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Notices |
Ride for a Cure |
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AWRA Changed
to Waterways
Motel, 27
units – Ph: 07 3410 199. Fax: 07 5497 5010. 155
Welsby Parade, Bongaree, Your
choice to stay for both Friday and Saturday nights e.mail:
reception@bribiewaterways.com.au |
Leukaemia
Foundation This
is the former Cassie Doyle Ride we have supported over the past few
years. Unfortunately, it again falls
on our ride day but for anyone interested, information will be available next
meeting. Take
the ride of your life with a convoy of more than 200 bikes and cruise through
the beautiful Gold Coast hinterland and support the Leukaemia Foundation. Pillion
registration of $125.00 gives breakfast, morning tea, lunch, a ride, and
entertainment. Riders get that for
just participating. Bring your own
pillion or get one there. |
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Can Art |
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Winter in |
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DougandPreeta and Jenny |
Denny
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The
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Well it’s that time of the year when we Victorians
have gone into hibernation for the winter however that does not stop us from getting
together and having dinner. In July
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attending. A
good night was had by all with another one planned for early September. The night also gave us the opportunity to say
Farwell to Doug and Preeta who are heading back to Qld to live so, hopefully
they will stay in contact I suspect Doug will have to come back to Vic to get
a refill of red Wine as I am sure the Qld vintage would not be the same as a
Victorian red. I
have attached some photos of the night they were taken with a phone camera so
the quality is not that good. Hope this article finds you all well and riding
lots more then we are at the moment. |
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J&M
developing a new wireless headset. News is that J&M has released a new range of accessories
including Bluetooth attachments for GPS and phones etc. Some specifically for the GL1800. The
announcement includes “Many of you are patiently waiting for
a full featured wireless helmet headset, to finally cut the cord between your
helmet and the motorcycle. You will be happy to know that all of
us here at J&M are giving this our full attention and we expect to
release our first wireless helmet headset sometime in the spring of 2007.” For further information go to: |
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I thought I would use this space this
month to add to our dam ride with some facts. ·
· Atkinson Dam was a natural lagoon prior to the wall being constructed in 1970 for irrigation purposes. 18km from Lowood. The dam wall is earth fill and is 1570mt long and 12.2mts high. The storage capacity is 30500ML with a surface area of 550ha. ·
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BearandI were at BP Blacksoil just a little early in case there
were some early birds! A little after 8 Rob says ‘Oh well if no one shows we’ll still make a
day of it and go anyway we’ve got our foodanddrink packed’. I said it’s
only early yet we still have plenty of time. ‘Wings started rolling in around
8.30 and it was then I realized Rob thought it was supposed to be leave at
8.30 not 9.00. He was smiling then. Anyway as soon as the Thommos’ arrived it was a |
quick briefing and away we went, 10 bikes in all, up the highway and
turned it at We made our way through |
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When we first moved to Rosewood in ‘85 Rob actually used to go skiing
with his boss here before work some mornings as it is so close to Rosewood
(approx 25km) and I think from memory one of the first dams to have the
dreaded ’blue-green algae’ quite a few years ago. No stopping here just getting our obligatory U-turn out of the way. A
little back tracking and through Laidley Creek West, and would you believe it
on a quiet country road, Sunday morning, no traffic and what should we have
but Traffic Lights! (these were to make Valerie feel like she was in the
city). Of course it was on Red and only 1 car came through eventually Anyway, we continued on to by-pass Forest Hill and along Arrive for smoko at the Dam and what Dam? A puddle, this agricultural
dam is at 0% (the lowest we have seen it) and the farmers have not been able
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it for four years and they are still being charged $4000.00 a year to
maintain it. After the flooding rains in February ‘99 this dam was almost filled,
enough for water sports and the ‘waterfront’ caravan park and camping to have
a little boom for a couple of years. Once over the disbelief and little chat and a cuppa we were on our way
again. Through Coominya to Wivenhoe dam and a little previous boating/fishing
(electric motor only) area called ‘Billy’s Bay’. The roadway to this area in
‘full’ days can be cut by water and unable to get to - no problem now- except
they closed the gates on us so we had to do a cross country U turn heading
down a hill, with a little gravel - we like to remind others that trail bike
riding is fun as well! So back out onto the highway, over the wall and there is plenty of
land to look at where water should be. Up through Splityard Creek area
heading to Everyone enjoyed themselves as much as we did. We finally arrive for lunch and what a
lunch! RobandI called it our better than Sizzler Lunch. There was plenty for us all to eat with a
few left-overs. This area has a few boat ramps but the distance between the end of
them and water is really an eye opener.
It is very hard to believe the amount of water that will be needed to
fill these paddocks back up especially as in ’99 the area was quite full. |
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I think a lot of people do not realise that we are going to need
inchesandinches of rain not just a few mls. Anyway enough doomandgloom and back to
the day. After a leisurely lunch, raffle draw (KevinandMorag and Ron Mead
were the winners) and chat we were on our way again. A little more back
tracking (there are only so many roads) over the dam wall, through Fernvale
and Glamorganvale to end up at the cafe on the highway at Again thank you to those who came with us and from the e-mails
received it seems everyone enjoyed themselves as much as we did. Bear and Jayne |
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Parrot talk This lady approaches a priest and tells him, "Father, I have a
problem. I have these two talking female parrots, but they only know how to
say one thing." "What do they say?" the priest asked. "They only know how to say, 'Hi, we are prostitutes. Do you want
to have some fun?'" "That's terrible!" the priest exclaimed, "But I have a solution
to your problem. Bring your two talking female parrots over to my house and I
will put them with my two male talking parrots who I have taught to pray and
read the Bible. My parrots will teach
your parrots to stop saying that terrible phrase and your female parrots will
learn to pray and worship." "Thank you," said the lady. The next day, the lady brings her female parrots to the priest's
house. The priest's two male parrots are holding rosary beads and praying in
their cage. The lady puts her female talking parrots in with the male talking
parrots and the female parrots say, "Hi, we are prostitutes! Do you want
to have some fun?" One male parrot looks over to the other male parrot and screams,
"Frank! Put the Bibles away--our prayers have been answered!" |
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17 September Ride |
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Meet BP North
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22nd,23rdand24th September Social |
Biker’s Dream, Goomburra |
Weekend at
Biker’s Dream; Bunkhouse has been booked for the group. Members to contact Bevan to reserve
accommodation and organise meals etc.
Leaving Friday from Mc |
Bevan and Therese |
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15 October Ride |
Mt Glorious. Mt Mee, Dayboroandsurrounds |
Meet Shell Nudgee
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21 October Social |
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Welcome home
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Doug and Preeta Harper |
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19 November Ride |
TBA |
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RustyandMaree Rust |
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25 November Social |
TBA |
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Phil WicksandTracey Lisley |
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2 December Social |
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Waterways Motel,
155 Welsby Parade, Bongaree, Toll Free 1800
072 080 |
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Ride
Coordinator - e-mail: carterbm @ bigpond.net.au Bill’s a/h mobile 0428
248 160 RIDE DATES; Unless otherwise arranged, rides will be on the 3rd Sunday of the month, and Social rides, the following weekend, with other social events as announced through the year. ** Ride Leaders:
Please check the details of your ride and let me know of any changes.
Ride leaders are also asked to organise 2 raffle prizes for their ride.
Suggested value approximately $10.00 each. Raffle tickets will be made
available from IMPORTANT: Even if you have not finalised the details of your ride, just supply the start timeandlocation, the general direction of the ride, and the meal arrangements. *** Ride Leaders:
Please provide a short pre-ride briefing that outlines the basic safety
precautions that we in the AWRA like to observe when riding in groups, and a
little about the ride and the rest stop locations. |
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PERSONAL
RESPONSIBILITY ON RIDES: · Each motorcyclist is responsible for at least the following; · The roadworthiness of your vehicle (including trailer) · That you are in a fit condition to control the vehicle, (including trailer) · Make sure you have a full tank of fuel before departing on a ride. · That you obey all the traffic rules and ride in a safe manner. · That you ride in a considerate manner that does not endanger, or unnecessarily inconvenience other road users. · To be correctly attired for safe motorcycling. · To have fun and enjoy the day, and the company. Thanks for all those that have offered to organise rides
and socials, that is what makes this
club so great. If you are yet to
conduct a ride or organise a social, please start to plan something so that
when your turn arrives you will be ready. You don’t have to wait to be asked,
just let me know. |
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AUSTRALIAN WING RIDERS ASSOCIATION (QLD) INCORPORATED
VICTORIAN RIDE and SOCIAL CALENDAR |
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10th September |
Reg Jeffrey Honda |
Warm up ride,
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2006 Moto GP
Phillip |
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24th September |
Mc |
Tarwin Lower. Pakenham(SP), south to Koo-wee-rup and
Phillip Island visit Churchill Islandandmorning tea, from Phillip Island, back to Anderson's
corner, then Wonthaggi, and Inverloch via Cape Paterson. East Tarwin Lower for a counter lunch
at the pub, then north to Meeniyan, Dunbalk, Mirboo Nth,
Thorpdale and final coffee at Trafalgar.(FP)
Straight down the |
Denny |
-- September |
Mc |
Malmsbury
Bike show (Not AWRA Event) Bike show for the inmates at the juvenile
detention centre with the God Squad Motor cycle club, well attended by Goldwings and other bikes. |
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6th October |
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Dinner
Location TBA |
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6-8th October |
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15th October |
Mc Western Ring Road, Sth side heading west |
Castlemaine
loop ride Melbourne(SP) Heathcote onto |
Denny |
10th November |
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Dinner
location TBA |
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18/19th November |
Shell Service station on the northern side of Lilydale |
Overnighter
to Corryong ( with side trip to Kiandra) Day 1
Melbourne (SP) to Mansfield, Whitfield Myrtleford, onto Bright left at Bright
on up to Tallangatta via Gundowring out to Corryong (overnight) side trip to
Kiandra for those that wish to go around 160 km rtn. Day 2 Corryong to Towong following the |
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14th January |
Reg Jeffrey Honda |
Ride: Fern tree Gully to Orlinda, Monbulk,
Emerald, Healsville, Marysville , Warburton, Nerrim South, Pakenham (FP) 341 klms |
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11th February |
SP/FP West gate bridge Shell |
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Notes: ·
Note: Rides depart ·
Social Dinners are also held around ·
If interested in coming for a ride then turn up on
the day and ride as a guest of the AWRA if you like what you see then join
AWRA to enjoy future rides ·
Rides during the winter months will depend on the
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Ride Coordinator: e-mail: mywing @ optusnet.com.au |
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Each motorcyclist
to be responsible for the following: 1. Your bike is to registered and roadworthy including trailer 2. You obey all traffic rules and ride in a safe manner 3. You are in a fit condition to control the bike according to state road laws 4. You be correctly attired for safe motorcycling 5. You ride in a considerate manner that does not endanger other road users or other riders 6. You have a full tank of fuel before departure on the ride Remember to have fun and enjoy the ride
and the company |