Another good day out with great company (Note that this was not a "K" event). The weather stayed warm without being too hot - more about the weather later.
There was quite a good turn out of a wide range of BMW machinery although I suspect that the cars outdid the bikes in number but I did not do a count. Close followers on the forum will recognise some of the bikes in these photos.
and despite a certain person's comments about clean or dirty bikes I noticed there didn't seem to be much crud on a red sidecar in the crowd.
The Daytona Orange R90S parked near my K75 is owned by one of the two brothers who are friends of mine from way back, non forum members, and who I travelled down with for the day and it won the award for best pre 2000 R model, the other brother had his R80, R65LS and K100RS SE (blue and white which I neglected to get a photo of) all there and the SE won the award for best K model. Quite a successful day for the boys.
There were quite a few of the very early models lined up in pride of place along the seafront of the park.
This wider angle shot shows all of the bikes with the forest of ships' masts in the background.
and this even wider shot shows the bikes with the BMW car entries off to the right of picture.
Quite a few of the bike riders were heading off south this afternoon on the start of a trek down to Phillip Island for the MotoGP race next weekend and the weather was looking pretty stormy down that way when we left to ride home, glad that we were heading north.
By the time we pulled into the service centre halfway back to home base to fuel up the smile had gone off our faces and the first drops of rain started to fall. We retreated into the cafe for a coffee as a large electrical storm started crashing and flashing overhead. A half hour later it was easing into light rain so we thought we'd head off only to find a few kilometres up the road that the storm was up ahead and not moving as fast as we were. So into the gloom we went and received a thorough drenching along with a good lightning show overhead.
I had put a new tyre on the K75 front wheel on Friday and was now glad that I had put 150 kms on it yesterday to scrub it in just in case there was "some" rain. Glad to report that it felt well planted in the poor conditions.
At least the rain wasn't cold.
Cheers