sadsacnews2014: TRAMPS: Trafalgar

Due to my absence Vance has kindly provided report and photos.

A small amount of hydraulic sunshine during the starting set up disturbed some riders, however that was last we saw of it.
Although two new riders, Mark and Eileen, turned up it was a sad start as our friend Jim would never be riding with us again.
Eileen expressed the difficulty of remembering everyone's name, so we told her that to make it easy for her we had, two Daryls, two Bruces, two Janets and three Richards.
One of the riders who usually addresses everyone at the start, brought his bike and a dose of the flu and spent the day in the car. This left eighteen riders for the day. With the brilliant leadership of Janet, the ride sauntered along Waterloo Road to Yarragon for a toilet break, then onto the Darnum - Shady Creek Road. As Number One Road was closed we continued along Bloomfield Road to enter Warragul via Queen Street. Warragul's Civic Park is a beautiful place for lunch and we all enjoyed it.
Trevor's truck has a lot of clutch shudder and behaved like an angry animal on the hill starts. The return journey, after leaving the town, was to the north along Nilma-Shady Creek Road, then Yarragon Shady Creek Road, we then descended to the plains of Yarragon and back to Traf. for the Cappuccinos. It was a perfect day, everyone was happy; a very successful ride