Many thanks to all members for attending this memorial ride to honour the passing of our good friend Mick Ferran.

35 bikes with 9 pillions, and 3 more riding in a cage (with the all important card table)

47 people playing 53 hands of poker, as some people felt lucky by getting 2 cards.

Special thanks to the Del Bake cafe for once again opening extra early to accommodate our group.
We all picked our 1st card and fired up the bikes to assemble at the cark park entrance where we were waved of by Liz Ferran.
Leaving Baxter we made our way to our 1st stop in Hastings where we met up with the Mornington Wanderers and the Shearwater group.
Shearwater put on the great spread for breakfast, and we wish to thank all the people that made it all run so smoothly.
We all picked our 2nd card, with yours truly trying to stop the cards from blowing away.

After a hearty breakfast and lots of coffee we fired up the bikes and made our way through some nice sweepers to our next meeting point in Flinders.
Our 3rd card was dealt over looking the sea at the top of the cliff, with my son James making sure that no cards made their way over the edge, as he did not want to go retrieve them!

With the card table folded away we then proceeded to our 4th card to be dealt way over at Arthurs Seat, along some of the nicest countryside on the Peninsular. The 4th card was a rushed affair as we had to be at the final stop in 15mins and Alan Rae did a great job in marshalling everyone to the card table.

Our last stop was at one of our Sponsors "The Jetty Cafe" in Rosebud. We arrived on the stroke of midday being led in by our ride leader Alan Rae, and bringing up the rear was Chris Dyball (I think)

Things were very interesting on the poker front with lots of people sitting on pairs, but no real developing hands.
I knew I had 2 Aces in the Bank, but felt sure that would be NO GOOD.

As I do not know how to score poker it was left to Alan Rae & Chris to make sense of it all.

The results were: $25.00 for the worst hand went to 'MINA' (this must have been a hard call as most people had nothing) $240.00 for the best hand went to 'English Al'

YES I KNOW WHAT YOU ARE ALL THINKING (NO WAY & AND WHEN ARE HIS PARENTS GETTING MARRIED)

The next poker run we have I will just score, because if I win again I feel that a lynch mob will be formed.

Many thanks to all the members that could make it such a great day, and our thoughts are with Liz Ferran at this time.

Check out the in-ride photos courtesy of my son James riding pillion.

MAKE THIS A DATE IN YOUR DIARIES FOR NEXT YEAR!

Many Regards.

English Al.

 

 Sunday the 9th of January 2011 Thirty Four Motorcycles Riders and Nine of them with Pillions assembled at the Baxter Coffee shopTo go on the Memorial Ride in memory of Mick Ferran.which was set up by Alan Rae.
A very large number going on the ride, the weather was fine and every one was cheerful and very much looking forward to the ride.
We all picked a card and paid our $5 entry and $5 for our B B Q brekkie that the Shearwaters Ulysses Branch was putting on for everybody.
Our card number was marked on a slip of paper by English Al.
We started off with Alan as leader and Mark Bedford took up the last place as Tail End Charlie.
Alan headed off up The Baxter Tooradin Rd and turned into the Dandenong Hastings Rd and rode on through to Hastings to
Pelican Point were Shearwaters were getting the B B Q ready.
There was a lot of the Shearwaters members and also members from the Vietnam Returned Members.
While the food was being prepared we all picked another card which was marked off on our slip by English Al.
After a Terrific Brekkie and a talk with other members we rode off, this time to the look out at Flinders were we all picked another card and from there it was off to Arthurs Seat where we got another card marked off.
From Arthurs Seat it was off down Browns Rd and Jetty Rd to the Coffee Shop were we picked our last card.
The card numbers were added up by English Al, while we had Coffee and some of our members had some Lunch.
Alan announced that English Al had Won First with a pair of Aces and Mina had the Worst Hand
English Al getting $240.00 and Mina $25.00.
The Poker Run was very good, a short ride with nice scenery.
Another enjoyable Ride set up by Alan Rae.
Thanks Alan Regards Doug.