Events

Monthly meeting and Christmas Luncheon

This Sunday ride was a really good ride in mostly good weather, many turned up for Coffee’ and a snack at Ellis Beach, which was a good start, then we left around 10.30am for the Daintree with around 12/14 bikes, a quick stop at Craiglee, then, the lovely Rain-Forest ride to the Daintree Village, lunch at the Crocodile Express Café was great outside, out the back of the Café where there is plenty of room. The ride home was also dry with moderate traffic, a few decided to ride up the Rex Range with Luxy, and then ride down the Kuranda Range

A really good attendance and a good meeting with plenty discussed, thanks. Meeting minutes were distributed by Paul.

Monthly ride to Malanda for the car & bike show. We left Macca’s Gordonvale just after 9.00am and rode up to the Malanda Show. A nice turnout and a great variety of bikes and cars at the show! After a good look around and as it was a hot day, we decided not to have lunch and instead ride back, part of the group via the Gillies, part of the group via the Kuranda range.

Lunch at mid-day, meeting at 1pm

Our Monthly Lunch Ride, we met Paul Naylor ( red Moto Guzzi ) in the car park at Macca’s at 9.00am and left around 9.30am to ride up to the Pit-Stop Café at Yungaburra. A number of members were welcoming us up there and soon after we followed Steves lead on a “Loop” ride part of which will be the a Upper Barron Road and ending up at Shaylee’s Strawberry Farm. This was a fantastic loop along various roads which most of us have not been riding on before. As the Strawberry Farm was super busy we decided to move to a Cafe in Yungaburra where we enjoyed a nice lunch. Great ride - great company - great weather with no rain for once!

A really good Monthly Meeting at the Meerawa Hot-Rod Clubhouse on Saturday, September the 7th, and an excellent attendance, especially considering the weather forecast, everyone had a great social time with less than usual Car Club Members, but there was the Mount Garnet Car Show & the Babinda Festival on with many car guys heading to either, plus the fore mentioned weather forecast. Future meetings at the Meerawa Club will require much more respect when entering and leaving this property, the Clubhouse is surrounded by private properties that naturally require as little exhaust, and other noise as possible, this is just plain common sense, thanks to all.

A good ride yesterday in nice cool weather, the Lake Barrine Tearooms were awesome and very much now again “Open for Business” and we will use them more often. Steve and Rhonda took us on a back-roads ride through the Western side of Mareeba coming back in through the Industrial Centre of Mareeba, somewhere most hadn’t been through before, then down the Kennedy Hi-way via Kuranda, then down through Smithfield to Brothers Footy Club for a good lunch. A ride we may build on, or do backwards next year, ………………… looking forward to your feed-back during the next few meetings.

The 2024 Cairns Car & Bike Swap Meet went as well as it could considering the weather forecasted, a good set-up day on Saturday the 10th of August went well with a reasonable number of members present, and thanks to those who helped with Gazebo set-up etc. Sunday was a wet start, but over-all a very good day was had by all who attended and a great Public Attendance considering the bleak weather forecast, but we certainly didn’t get the forecasted weather. A lovely array of both bikes and cars to perv on, our Club scooped up most of the Motorcycle awards with Jim McKenzie-Smith taken 2 awards for this just finished, and beautiful R90S BMW, Eddie Stockley for his Norton 750, Rosco’s Kawasaki H1500 with other potential members, a lovely GSXR750, Honey with her beautiful HD Chopper, and a very nice HD Springer taking the best American.

A marvellous facility and deserves a good attendance, organised by Peter Boric and Jim Mac. Perfect weather greeted Eddie Stockley and Paul Naylor at Gordonvale, they proceeded up the Gillies to Yungaburra, also in perfect weather and met up with Steve, Rhonda, Chris and Pete. We rode up the upper Barron road and down Gentle Annie to avoid roadworks between Malanda and Millaa for lunch at Rumours Cafe. The local Lions club was having a free sausage sizzle, so all of us had a freebie before lunch at Rumours. Great ride down the Palmerston with Paul Naylor heading back at the south Johnston turnoff, Chris had turned back earlier at Millaa. Eddie, Pete, Rhonda and I journeyed on thru South Johnston to meet Peter Boric, Jim Mac, Steve and Allison, Carl and Kathy at El Arish for lunch at Bingil Bay where Peter took over and guided us thru backroads to the Bowhunters for a meet and greet. The motel stayers left to check in with the idea of phoning a cab to get back at around 6.30pm for a bbq tea, however Telstra had other plans. Unbeknown to us Telstra was upgrading in the area, so no one had signal. Talked to the motel owner who offered his landline to ring a cab, but the Tully taxi service, god bless them, were not at home. Enter Tina Stockley who saves the day, she had driven down to stay with Eddie at the motel, so, we had wheels. The bbq tea, cheap beer, the facilities and the hospitality of the bow hunters was outstanding as always thanks to Peter Boric and the Bowhunters committee. Jim Mac displayed his recently and beautifully restored 1977 BMW R90/S (one of Don Roy’s). 8am the next morning we returned for breakfast and a non eventful ride home. Steve W.

AGM and monthly meeting - Cruising Yacht Club - lunch from Midday - AGM from 1.00pm upstairs

A great turn-out with a very enjoyable ride, not quite the bright sunshine we all would have liked, but getting there, I think the Ravenshoe Hotel food was good and I will start to organise our overnighter for October the weekend of 12th/13th and will discuss, along with other rides and over-nighters at the AGM.

Thanks to all who attended our combined Social Event and our Monthly Meeting at the Top of The State Hot-Rod & Custom Car Club. The mornings early weather looked ordinarily, which may have kept some locked up at home, but the day cleared and we had a great and very social day with the Car Club members, we all enjoyed a lovely BBQ cooked by Steve, Kev & Eddie, also many thanks to the Car Clubs Committee who not only provide the Club-house, but clean it on the Friday before, get there at 9.30am Sunday morning and spend the day with us. A SPECIAL thanks to Tania, Alison, Paz, Dawn & Tina who prepared all the salads, condiments and helped hand-out food, then cleaned up afterwards, it was also great to see so many other wife’s/partners attend, for these Social Events, Saturday’s ( June ) , our September meeting ( Saturday the 7th ) also at Meerawa, and naturally the Christmas Party, which will again be at Gazlay’s Footy Club, Saturday 7th December, we really encourage all wife’s and partners to come and have a nice lunch and a drink or two. We also had Harry & Bev as guests with Harry’s lovely Velo, and we welcome two new members: Hector & Sam Harm ( GPZ750 ).

We met at the McDonalds Gordonvale at 9.30am for coffee and left at around 10.00am, riding up the Gillies on a mostly dry road to Yungaburra where we stopped at the Strawberry farm for a coffee. As the sun came through for a bit we decided to go for a Tablelands loop ride via Herberton & Bromley Swamp, but the rain caught up with us quickly. Despite that we had a nice ride to Malanda where we enjoyed our lunch in the ball room. A good turnout and nice ride despite the reasonably average and unpredictable weather!

A great turn out - over 60 bikes on display - check out the Gallery on our website for more and full size pictures

Met at Ten06 Cafe Yorkeys Know at 10am, took off for a ride to Julatten Hotel for lunch - then back via Mt Molloy and via Kuranda or Gillies Range. A really good ride yesterday and the weather remained good as forecast and it was great to see a few who hadn’t been on a ride for a while, I didn’t count, but around 15 plus on the ride, a few turned around at the top of the Rex look-out, or at the Julatten Hotel as they had other commitments, but a good turn-out, ………….. for those like Tania and I who hadn’t been along the Coast Road since December, it was very telling of the damage back then, but also of the huge clean-up that Main Roads and others have completed, whilst we didn’t stop, it was great to see the Ellis Beach Café really busy and based on the traffic, Port Douglas must also have been busy, we had a good ride home back via Yungaburra and down the Gillies in reasonably light traffic given the end of the School Holidays

Mike will provide a BBQ from mid-day. Undercover parking available for bikes

Met McDonalds Gordonvale at 9.30am for coffee and discuss a short ride. Followed by a ride up to Yungaburra and then heading to Malanda for lunch. Due to the rather miserable weather not many members turned up but the few that did still enjoyed their ride and the catch up and lunch.

Monthly meeting - lunch at midday, meeting at 1.00PM

Short ride - Wet Season

Meeting will be a ride from the Parkview Hotel to the Car Club after lunch at around 1.00pm