The Brass Monkey Ride -
weekend 2nd –
3rd August

Another
year and another opportunity to get cold, wet and dirty on the annual Brass
Monkey Ride.

This year groups collected at
three start points for the ride. The “ Highway Inn” Werribee ( for
the Werribee etc guys ), Macca’s at Bacchus Marsh ( for the guys north of
town ) and at Bannockburn ( for the Geelong guys ).

This worked really well until
very late Friday night when the start time was changed to 10 am at Werribee,
from 9.30. ( Gave me a chance to relax in front of the
pseudo log fire with a “cino” in hand ). We left at 10 arriving at Bannockburn to meet the Geelong members. Only to find either Shrek or
Wayne were running late and had delayed their departure. After half an hour of
waiting, we continued on to Winchelsea were we settled into a light lunch.
Didn’t have a burger myself but they looked great – a full handful !!.

After about ten minutes the
rest of the group arrived. With Shrek and Wayne still deciding who had held
them up leaving Kyneton.  With the weather looking threatening we pushed on to Skenes Creek. Only getting some showers on the way.

At our
accommodation in Apollo
Bay. Some went sightseeing, some went shopping and others
just started drinking.

The plan to create our own
pizza masterpieces worked a treat with Shrek and Erwin pumping out too numerous
to count of many different varieties – yum !! all went down well. By this stage a few of the guys were
getting a bit noisy from a few drinks . We found out
that Dave talks in riddles and slurs a bit and Rob calls everybody “
numb-nuts “ and likes walking around in his thermals.

By midnight these two had
been lost and found a couple of times. The last being Dave who earlier had been
rescued from the police – allowed to leave the Motel – and then
found again later walking the streets not knowing were he was.

On the way home instead of
following the Great Ocean Road we travelled out over Lavers Hill and back
through Colac to Home.

A great weekend – well
attended with 15 bikes and 4 cars ( with some pesty
children in them ). Well done again Shrek !!. and much thanks to Erwin for supplying the pizza bases and
breakfast for us all.