Steiglitz – April/75

About 26 bikes arrived in glorious sunshine for the run. The run up with Darren leading, Big Daddy as rear rider (no doubt to give himself a chance to recuperate) and Jol as patrol was rather uneventful, except for the little bikes lagging a bit behind – no doubt they were going as hard as they could.

We arrived at Steiglitz and proceeded to cook lunch. Mick Fagan decided to interest himself and all the others by doing a hill-climb. He was soon followed by Jol who I thought was going to have a heart-attack half-way up, but he made it. Les Luke aboard his interesting Yami 500 didn’t go very well the first time; but unperturbed he tried again and almost made it. As the old saying goes, third time lucky. I must add here that it was nice to see Les and Cecily on a run again.

On the way back to Melbourne Maureen (Jawa 350) stopped for no apparent reason. Fortunately the two-stroke expert happened to be riding behind her – yours truly who at once suspected the plugs, A quick change over soon sent Maureen on her way again. I must say that my vocabulary was increased after hearing what Maureen thinks of her bike.

We stopped at Bacchus Marsh for afternoon tea, then off to Melbourne. I followed Darren who decide to go back a different way. Jesus!! I’m glad I didn’t lose him. Believe me, I followed him right up his bum! Left Darren at the beginning of New Footscray Road, and went home.

SUMMING UP: A good run, good weather and I was interested to find out that Katrina’s old BMW is quite good at hillclimbs!

------ Dennis McKenzie ------