Mapleton Muster 2014

[The General]

Two new faces! Great cheap food & Coffee! A pump bypass! A pillion shopping adventure! Disappearing rain clouds! Hours of breathtaking Vista! A purring bit on the side! That tricky corner produced one white & again some brown scarrs!...... and a pig flew!

What a momentus day!

Really Really wish I could`ve stayed overnight. Thanks Darran for making it happen & Harv for being a quick, mindfull & safe pace setter.

There is no doubt that the Mapleton Muster is a "must do" on tha Aussie Calendar with an easy selection of cruiser songs or screeching Heavy Metal, enjoyed & respected by the greatest bunch of blokes on the planet.

[momodasaint]

Hey fellas & ladies, Thanks for showing me that there are good roads further north after all. I had a great day.  I wanna go again now, maybe ill have to write to Randy and order that time travel part so I can skip to next year haha. Nah it ws great to see what they should look like, after a bit of spit and polish. you werent wrong about a great day guys, thanks heaps and ill be dreaming of new bits for my bike for weeks now lol

[Bones]

What a great day, although the start could've been better. After arriving at Mapleton I headed straight to the servo to top up on fuel and noticed the bike running rough like it was on three cylinders, at idle and when revved, and just assumed it was a bad plug even though they were fairly new, but decided to have breakky first and check it out later.

After breakky it was that bad it would hardly run, and I noticed the fuel pump wouldn't stop clicking no matter how many times I turned the key on and off, and realised then that the pump must have shit itself and couldn't build pressure,   so off with the tank and pulled the main line to the pump off and hooked it straight to the carbs and it started right up and ran like a train for the rest of the day.

Now for the ride, this would have to be one of the best rides around for scenery and twisty roads, and with Harvy leading and setting the pace, never boring. "That" corner up the Bellthorpe range continues to catch people out and this time caught Harvy's stepson off guard and he took it a bit wide and just clipped a flexible guide post, but full credit to him, he's only been riding about 3 months and had no worries at all keeping up on his Suzuki 500.

Lunch at the pub was tasty and cheap and that glass of beer really hit the spot.

Some pics at the pub.









After lunch everyone headed off home but Darran, LB, Ray, Glen, and myself headed back to Mapleton via The Obi Obi, and without a passenger and being one way knowing there's nothing coming the other way, had an absolute ball going up the range. Said farewell at the top and headed back to the daughters place for a few well needed beers. Looking forward to the next one.

Will post a video once I sort through all the footage.
                           
                                                                  Tony.

[X-Ray]

How good is the countryside around Mapleton? I'm going back there soon, love it. It was great after brekky to head down to the bikes and before we could ride off, Tony gave everyone a hands on demo of "How To Bypass A Stuffed Fuel Pump", with only a length of fuel hose. Best thing was it worked, and Tony didn't even notice it missing for the rest of the day. Went though Connondale, stopped at Kennilworth for a breather after some highly illegal antics, then pressed on to Cooroy. The always lovely and happy Danielle met us at the pub, ( why wasn't she on the back of the bike with you Darran??) and after a bit of lunch and a cold beer, some of the crew headed home, and a few of us rode back to where we started at Mapleton.

It turned out Glenn and I were the only ones staying the night in Mapleton, so we went to the Tavern, had some nice beers, some nice food, then a few rums and scotches until closing time. The scotch did something with my eyes because as we were leaving there was a sudden loud rattling bang as my head slammed into the partly closed roller shutters over the doorway. Glenns first words were not of concern but "Ah shit wheres my camera?" We might have woken a few residents up as we laughed our heads off walking back to the Lodge where we were staying. I will also tell you bloody its bloody hard climbing up into the top bunk up a skinny little metal ladder when you are half smashed.   (And then try to get down it again at 3.00am with a near overflowing bladder, lol!!!!)

Heading home, we decided against taking the quick way home down the boring highway, so went to Maleny, the hung a left and shot across the valley to Kilcoy, had a nice pie with coffee, and from there headed around Somerset Dam to Fernvale. We did chase a group of Harley riders some of the way, they were a bit slower through some of the twisty bits, (wonder why). Stopped again at Amberley near the RAAF base, for a drink, then 30mins later arrived home. 596kms for the weekend, ABSOLUTLEY LOVED IT.! Good as always to see everyone again, and new faces Stephen and Luke.  

[ken65]

Good onya boys, Glad yas had a ball

[oz.fj]

Glad to hear everyone had a good time running round our back yard
It was a fantastic day. Great ridding, great scenery, great people.
Will defiantly be putting it on the calendar as a must do for next year

So If you are new around here and maybe a little hesitant about joining in on a ride /rally etc...
Don't be ... we always seem to get along and have a ball.
After all we already have something in common.
           " THE MIGHTY FJ "

Darran

[The General]

Will defiantly be putting it on the calendar as a must do for next year


Darran

Hey dash, You and I need ta have a Christmas party or a New year one, at Pete`s followed by a nailing of the Obi Obi. Maybe we could start at Sweethearts cause Stu still reckons it`s the best Eggs Benedict he`s ever tasted!   

[ken65]

I love that photo of Rays with the locals admiring Doug's sidecar and the bird in the background trying to unlock her white ute with a coat hanger.

[X-Ray]

Hahaha, I forgot about her. Did she get into it before we left?

[ken65]

I can't recall, i was too busy hoping i could keep up with you lot,... as soon as we came to a bend everybody started going faster. 

thats why i went to the end of the line up...

[oz.fj]

Hahaha, I forgot about her. Did she get into it before we left?

Yes she did.
I don't think it was her first time it didn't take her to long.

[The General]

errrr....She wants ta know what happened to her pig!......might have ta ride over the mountain again ta set a trap! 

[Harvy]

Would that be an Aerial trap mate.....seeing as pigs fly! 

Harvy

[X-Ray]

You wouldn't believe it. I had to go to Nambour and Mapleton/Maleny for work today, last call was in Maleny. Mmmm, travel back to the highway to head home or do the run again that Glenn and I did on Sunday heading home.

Of course I took the scenic route home from Maleny, doing the Kilcoy/Somerset Dam/Fernvale/Amberley run, and even though I was in the car it was still a ball. The crap in the back seat sliding across and banging from door to door in the twisties was hilarious. It's an extra 65kms and 35mins travel time to go that way, but it's worth every second. 

[ken65]

half ya luck Ray, just being up there is medicinal.