A group of 10 bikes headed off at 9.30am to the small bakery in Cockatoo for ‘smoko’. Here, we met a mate of mine, Peter, who joined us for the ride. The next leg took us through the picturesque Dandenong Ranges to Healesville.
From there, we veered off for some nice twisties to Toolangi via Chum Creek before returning to the other side of Healesville via Myers Creek Road.
Another advantage of this route was we didn’t have to pass through the busy town!
Then up through the Black Spur which, of course, had some bloody cars in the way (probably just as well, keeping us to legal limits) before arriving at Marysville where we settled into the Duck Inn for a refresher and a feed.
As we were about to leave the car park, we helped a bloke load his broken-down bike onto his ute.
Was it a Harley, you ask?
Was it a Triumph, you ask?
No, it was a GS Beemer!
Time to tackle the second twin, the mighty Reefton Spur. Given the wind the night before, the road was relatively clear of debris and we all managed to navigate it safe ’n’ sound.
A quick stop in the busy Warburton to fill up and empty what was necessary before turning off at Launching Place for the terrific road into Gembrook.
We said goodbye to Pete here before heading to our final stop in Tooradin, where we decided the ice cream line was too long to participate.
The weather was great all day, no incidents, no one misbehaved (badly), so all good. Thanks to Mark for TEC.