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April 2022 Exhaust Notes - Edition No 312 

SHORT

RIDE

REPORT –

4th April

2022

Photos and report by
the Lens

Was it 9.30,,,10.30,,,,11.30?
Coz, monthly Sunday short rides start at 10.30, not 9.30, so I`m told. OK, 10.30 it is! Hang on a
minute, daylight finish at 2am that morning. So then it`s an 11.30 start, if you didn't do the clock
thing. Or is it 9.30? Do the clocks go forward or back? I`m too old for this c**p. (Any way the
hour less of sunshine will stop the grass being burnt and slow down the fading of the curtains)
When they introduce metric time, what will our start time be? (10 hour days, and 100 minute
hours etc)

"Anyways" I turn up at 10.30 (that`s the new time) at our start point, Maccas Waurn Ponds.
Now it was rather "misty on the moor"! Yep! Wet weather. (How dare it rain on my ride!) So
anyways some others turn up as well. Good stuff. So we have 7 riders and 2 in their cars. (Check
out group photo) Now our finish point is the Clifton Springs Golf Club Bistro. So a head count is
needed, that includes, wife`s and partners. Well I did a head count and come with the total of 12.
Was I correct? Nope! Obliviously I can't count above 12 "coz" we had 15. (Total) Much moving of
tables and chairs when we get there. Ok my fault! I beg for forgiveness.
Now back to the riding part. Seven riders (including my son Leigh) and two cars take off. It was
great to have Noel back with us after he has been poorly recently. And of course Pat does the
following part, in the position of Tail End Charlene. So out through Highton and up Scenic Rd.
over the famous Queens Park Bridge. Turn left into Melville Ave. (That's the steep one that winds
it way up past the Geelong College Jnr. School) As a piece of useless information, that section of
road/street has 3 names between Queens Park Rd. and Aberdeen St. (Melville Ave. Layton Cres.
Minerva Rd.) ??????
"Anyways" left and down the Deviation Rd, and a lefty at Merrawarp Rd, Barrabool Rd. and
headed south down Andersons Rd. Just for another piece of useless information, not 5 days
before, on our Wed. coffee "plunge", Peter T. took us down Anderson Rd. Back to our ride. Left
onto the highway and down Cape Otway Rd, to Reservoir Rd and a left onto Anglesea Rd.
Now as I`m negotiating the big Waurn Ponds roundabout a car entering the roundabout on my
left, gives way to me, (as he should) but the car behind him wasn`t having anything to do with
that, and "bonk" straight into the back of him. Did I cause that? I will put my hand up. Only a
slight bump, only slight damage I`m sure.

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