Australian FJowners 2017 Rally

[roverfj1200]

Ladies and Gentleman

The 2017 FJowners Australian Rally March 11th 2017

The recently refurbished Grand Hotel Esk is our venue for this a night of mischief.

As usual the festivities will kick of on Friday night as the riders gather and partake of refreshments.

Saturday will see the bikes line up for the Rally photo shoot.

Then a meandering ride through the ranges with the mighty FJ fleet snaking its way along.

Things will hot up on Saturday night with the awards and the one and only FJ raffle.

Come one come all to the amazing and fabulous

AUSTRALIAN YAMAHA FJ ANNUAL RALLY.

Accommodation can be had at:

The Grand Hotel Esk" (07) 5424 1141

ESK Wivenhoe Motor Inn
Phone:(07) 5424 1677

[giantkiller]

A visit to Australia is high on my bucket list. I'll have to make sure it's around the annual Fj rally. Have fun ride safe.

[Urban_Legend]

Ok. Try again after my last stuff up.
Hi All.

Well it's now less than two weeks to the rally. Feeling excited. My room is booked and got a confirmation call from the pub yesterday. My bike is about as ready as will ever be. Can't wait to catch up with the FJ crew. See you all soon

Mark

[racerrad8]

The Australian rally is well underway. Enjoy guys.

I got this photo of the rally shirt, getting them around the world came down to a time crunch.

Randy - RPM

[Bones]

Well the Rally is done and dusted and being my first one I've gotta say i had a lot of fun. Met a few more members and finally got to meet Noel and Arnie and have to say Noel in person is the complete opposite to what you might think and Arnie is also a nice bloke to boot. Weather was perfect though still a bit hot and the venue looking good set amongst a picturesk (gettit) mountain backdrop.







I was a bit slack and only managed to capture a part of the line up in front of the Hotel but I think I got most in the line up behind the pub.











The new Rally shirts were a big hit where most people bought one and have to say they look great.



Some of the crowd.



Two Doug's, a General and a bald one you might recognize.



Bit of confusion at the start where riders took off at different times but we all eventually ended up at the designated lunch stop. After lunch some of the group went a different way back, with us stopping at Lake Cressbrook for a break and check out some camping spots.







No pics for the Raffle or awards night as we had to content with the local karoke night that had some woeful singing. but I managed to win a chook in the awards that I understand according to legend has to be attached to the bike on the way home and if presented at next years Rally will receive a free beer.



Overall it was a great weekend and look forward to the next one.

[Sparky84]

Looks like the weather was good and quite a good turnout, wish I could've got there.
Gotta love that chook raffle, now all you have to do is remember where you put the chook when you get home,
Or leave it strapped to your bike until then.

Thanks for posting your photos, made me feel like I was there 

[X-Ray]

Nice photos Tony, now make sure you can get some time off next year so you can ride to Mudgee with us

[Urban_Legend]

The rally was excellent as usual. Loved the shirts, thanks Randy, and I appreciate the hard work put in be the organisers. Here is a link to a little video (under 9 minutes) of the ride from my perspective.
https://youtu.be/0hZKW7LXNGc

Mark

[Sparky84]

The rally was excellent as usual. Loved the shirts, thanks Randy, and I appreciate the hard work put in be the organisers. Here is a link to a little video (under 9 minutes) of the ride from my perspective.
https://youtu.be/0hZKW7LXNGc

Mark

Great Video Mark,

Made me feel that I was there, my daughter said it was Weird seeing so many Red & White FJ's together instead of just 1 in the garage.
How do you get time to put all this together and with captions, music? (I do mean How and with what)

Its usually the bit after The Pub that you should miss so the Coppers don't have any evidence.

My video didn't ended with "Thanks to Pete , you are a".....  What is Pete, is there a second part to this video.

I do have to really try getting to these so I could get a T shirt.

Cheers Alan

Is there a second part

[Urban_Legend]

Hi Alan

How do you get time to put all this together and with captions, music? (I do mean How and with what)
I use the good old Windows Movie Maker. Took about 2 hours to do.

My video didn't ended with "Thanks to Pete , you are a".....  What is Pete, is there a second part to this video.
I stuffed up on font size there. Was meant to read..."Thanks Pete (OLDKTMDUDE), you are a bloody legend"

For the shirt. Contact Richard ( RoverFJ1200) .He has a few XL size left.

Mark

[NotSo]

Well another Rally done, well that's my second one  and looking forward to Mudgee next year (already looking at the way to get there and camping as well).
It's also great with the social events as well, with a great bunch of people.
We were lucky with the weather as a storm went through Goombungee and Esk doing a lot of damage along the way on Tuesday morning.

Top shirt Richard and thank you for all the hard work done by you and others to make it such a great event.

Keep the shiny side up and looking forward to seeing you all next time.
Shane   

[oldktmdude]

   G'day everyone, Alf and I arrived home (safe but damp) this afternoon about 5pm. We covered 4,145 kms of some fantastic roads whilst away. Thanks to all who made the effort to attend. A special thanks to Ray for a great Rally Ride on Saturday, I know how much thought and planning goes into getting a good ride. Richard and Darran did a great job (as usual) with the presentations, although very hard to hear at times, due to the competition from the karaoke racket.
Due to the great hospitality of Julie and Richard, we were treated to Dougies' special coffee and tea-cake morning tea and a great ride through some more fantastic mountain roads, led by Darran (who apparently was too sick to attend work but summoned the strength to spend the morning leading us all over the hills).
  On the way home we stopped at Mudgee to check out the venue for next year. It should be a good one. We also went through great pain and hardship to ride most of the 2018 Rally Route, I don't think anyone will be disappointed.
  Regards, Pete. Roll on 2018!    

[Bozo]

New rules should apply, anyone who drives a Renault Kolios with a wonky GPS should get the top award, these wossies riding a FJ cruisers should not get any awards.

Glad to see the old gang at ESK even though my bike was still in Perth. Arnie how did you survive the ride back to Brissy as a clump weight for Doug?

[X-Ray]

Thanks Pete, probably a couple of things we could have done better with the ride, but I was happy how it turned out. I originally though Esk? What's around Esk? But we found some interesting roads which was good. I mentioned in another post that on the Sunday a couple of Harley riders let us know the constabulary had thought of our safety and had put a camera in about the same spot that you and Alf blasted past me in the 60 zone going up Esk-Hampton Road, lol. 60 along there??, unbelievable .

[X-Ray]

I tell you what, one of the big surprises of the rally was me turning around on the Saturday night at the hotel and there was John (Bozo) standing there! I kid you not, I thought I was hallucinating. Mate, that was so good to see you there and even better you are going to be Brisbane based for 6 months. I see a few day trips coming  up when your FJ arrives