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OTHER After lunch and good-byes to all Bob and I headed back
home, via Goulburn, Windellama, along the well
beaten Oallen Ford Road briefly stopping at Nerriga
REPORTS before heading onto home base. A nice 380km ride
with some good times and company along the way.
Briefly about the TT; the race was run in 1914 and it
was 3 laps around the Goulburn area, each lap being
~33 miles for a total of 100 miles on roads were dirt
and gravel at best with the riders averaging a speed of
52 mph! That is AVERAGE mind you so what speeds
were they reaching! That took a lot of courage and
when you consider the types of motorcycles available
in 1914, the engineering and the suspension (or lack
thereof) it was a magnificent effort.
The race drew and estimated 1000 spectators which to
me is an incredible figure given where Goulburn is
geographically when compared to the other major
This story is reprinted with thanks to our friends at centres.
“Adventure Rider”. To see this and more articles, go to
https://advrider.com/ One report from the race was: “One rider, K George
had a stone lock in his back wheel, and he was thrown
The Australian Tourist Trophy Race Monument into a tree. Unfortunately, this was only slightly more
th
ride – 20 February 2022 serious than his Saturday accident, when he ran into a
flock of sheep maiming several”. You have to love the
Bob Howard and I set off with the Shoalhaven Classic understatement of that report and it just goes to
Motorcycle Club (SCMC) to meet up with the Classic highlight the types of conditions the riders were
Riders Club of Goulburn (CRCofG) at the Australian TT competing under.
Monument in Collector.
My report only touches on the TT, so I have scanned a
The ride saw us go up through Nowra and onto the pamphlet the CRCofG handed out giving more detail
meeting point with the other SCMC riders at the and it is attached at the end of the report.
Turpentine Road and Braidwood Road. Then it was
along the Braidwood Road to Nerriga and then onto I write this with thanks to the CRCofG and in particular
Tarago where we regrouped and had mornos and a to the CRCofG Historian Wayne Adams (deceased) for
refuel (these classic bikes don’t have big tanks or are his book ‘The Racing Boys’ which was published in
thirsty!?). After mornos we headed up to the Collector 1994. It is not known if this is still in print and available
Road, which took us to of all places; Collector!! but from the extracts, I have read in the pamphlet it
would be a great read if you can get a copy.
We met up with the members of the CRCofG folks
along and some members of the Collector Historical
Society at the TT Monument. CC #64635
The CRCofG and the Historical Society worked together
to get the funding for the memorial and as you can tell MV Agusta is once again promising better things
from the pictures it was a very good effort and a great
around the corner
result and the plans they have for the future make this
an excellent destination for motorcyclist to visit. If there are two things MV Agusta is good at, it’s
making attractive motorcycles, and making promises.
There is some contention between Goulburn/Collector
and Bathurst as to who had the first ‘authorised’ TT And now, we’ve got new promises from the Italian
race in Australia, but I think it is safe to say that the manufacturer, saying there’s an updated three-
cylinder engine coming, along with a new four-cylinder
memorial is in the correct location (sorry Bathurst).
powerplant.

The news comes out of an interview that MV Agusta’s
After a photo op at the memorial, we adjourned to the CEO did with Brit moto-outlet MCN. The interview took
Bushranger Hotel in Collector for lunch and a catch up place at November’s EICMA show, and MV Agusta
with the CRCofG. bigwig Timur Sardarov promised a line of new bikes

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