CnC: TwoUp To The Unveiling

There was no blog for Friday as I spent all day in the motel dealing with the headcold. It rained most of the day so it was the best thing to do.

I did venture out between the downpours to fuel up the bike as I was to be off very early in the morning.

Naturally, I ran into a couple of FarRiders at the servo. Michael "Fatman" and Lynne on their BMW pulled in behind me. So we had a coffee before they departed to stay up the road a bit and we were to meet again next day.

Away bright and early Saturday as I had a couple of hours journey into Adelaide to meet Charleen's flight. It was raining, of course. After all it was a FarRide get together.

I had all the gear on and stayed pretty warm.

Great to meet Charleen at the airport - haven't seen her in a week. So we sorted out our luggage and headed off for Horrocks Pass to meet up with FarRiders. It rained most of the way but we had no time to lose so the plan was straight up the main highway.

We arrived at Horrocks and there was no one there save a pair of young hoons doing donuts in the car park in their ute. They stopped as we arrived, but the car park was a mess.

We went down to Wilmington and there they all were, 32 other bikes from all over Australia.

Still raining, so it was a quick hello all around and saddle up for the ride back up to the Pass.

Everyone lined up for photos in the car park even though it was a bit muddy and messy.

Then it was down to the "Banner Shot" location a few kays west of the Pass. For those unaware, this location was used by Davo to take a shot of his bike that he used as the banner heading on the FarRiders forum. He challenged everyone to get similar shots and nowadays whenever a FarRider passes through they will take a photo from the location.

Since Davo's passing it was decided to place a commemorative plaque at the site. Most of the work involved was done by FarRider Pat "Toura" and he led the day. Our job as representatives of FarRiders committee was to lead the short ride down to the site and do the unveiling after a short but heartfelt ceremony.

All done and photos taken most of us returned to Wilmington where we took over the pub and had a great night. I'm pretty sure the publican was happy having a full bar, dining room and rooms for the night.

A couple more photos:

Bikes lined up at the Banner Shot site