BMU WEDNESDAY RIDE 28/4/10 Berrima NSW

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BMU WEDNESDAY RIDE
All welcome to join in

Meet :- Blaxland McDonalds, GWH, BLAXLAND, NSW for a 9.00am Start
Ride Leader/Photos :- Franz (BMBEN) Garde 0427 830 712
Ride Reports/Videos :- Eric (I will film it) Baldwin
Destination :-
Berrima, NSW - 28th April 2010
34°29'22.72"S 150°20'8.94"E

The weather forecast for to-day was 24° C in the city and 25° C in the west with blue clear skies, when I left home and headed up towards Blaxland it was quite cool, I could feel the sun warming my back as I rode along the freeway, there was very little traffic on the freeway. I arrived at Blaxland at approximately 8.20am and their were quite a few riders there already and to day after speaking to Franz Garde we would be going to Berrima. We ended up with 11 riders and Franz Garde would lead the ride followed by Tom Lathouwers, Les Welch, Richard Mason, Alan MayMak, Doug Bourke, myself, Peter Morris, Malcolm Kerri, John Mccrae and tail end charlie would be Noel Harris.

We left at 9:00 AM and headed down to Mulgoa Rd where we turned right and headed to The Oaks then down through Cawdor where we would stop at Picton Memorial Park for morning tea.



The boys were really having a big discussion this morning so when we started to get ready to leave there were a few of them still having a discussion on a few different things, so we took off headed for Berrima around the back way past Bowral on to Moss Vale and then around to the Berrima Park where we would stop for lunch.

Somewhere near Thirlmere we lost a couple of the riders and Noel was tail end Charlie so he knew where we were going so we did not bother to stop and expected him to catch us up at Berrima, as we turned left at Colo Vale we passed three other riders going the other way. They turned around and followed us and then somewhere along the way between there and there and Berrima we lost another rider so when we arrived for our lunch stop we only had 10 riders. I was about too get my mobile phone and make a call to find out where he was and then all of a sudden he turned up so we had our full contingent of riders again.

We had our lunch with the south westerly winds blowing through the park, the sun was warming us as we sat there but the wind was quite chilly and there were quite a considerable amount of leaves blowing off the trees.



After lunch we decided that we would stop at Thirlmere for afternoon tea on the way home, we would go back along the old highway and Remembrance Drive thru Bargo .

We said our goodbyes at Thirlmere then headed for home, Les Welch myself and a few of the other riders stopped at the oaks for fuel and then we continued on, around the back of Wallacia around the back of St Marys were I waved goodbye to Les Welch and I continued on home to arriving at approximately 5:00 PM after having done 300 kilometres for the day's ride.

We had a tremendous day and the weather conditions were absolutely fabulous we really could not have picked a better day, although we did experience a little bit of wind at Berrima.

Regards Eric Baldwin.