Club Laverda NSW Woodstock pub weekend 26-27th April 2025

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I will be away overseas, so looking for interested parties, and someone to organise the run.

Let me know if you are interested ASAP.

This is the run information from last year-

Meet 8.30am BP servo North Richmond. Heading up Bells line of rds, Lithgow. South Bowenfels, Sodwalls.breakfast at mumma snows country kitchen, Tarana.

O'Connell, the Lagoon, Georges Plains, Newbridge, Blayney. (Fuel).

Carcoar for pub lunch, Wyangla Dam, then back to the Royal Hotel at Woodstock.

Sunday morning we head to Neville, Barry, Trunkey creek, then down to Crookwell for lunch. Home via Laggan, Taralga, Oberon.

Ring the pub to book your accommodation on (02) 6345 0262.

It will be a relaxed riding weekend, get in quick! See you there.Marty
 
Going to try again for this weekend on the ANZAC long weekend, 26th April. Let me know if you're interested. I spoke to Connie at the pub and there are rooms available, let me know when you have booked.

(02) 6345 0262 is the phone number for the pub.
 
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I am in. It fits in well, so I can still watch the Fast Jet flyover for the Anzac Day March on Friday. The F35 comes over the Harboard Diggers club at approx 1000ft on full afterburners at just below Mack one. It's some show.
 
Chris, it starts as a dot on the horizon. And going over it's like an explosion. You need to get there a couple of hours early, or there is zero parking; they get a big crowd on the cliff edge. It's a rare thing around here. Anzac Day, and it used to happen on Australia Day on The Harbour, but they replaced the F35s, 3 of them, with the Roolets. The RAAF prop-driven Aerobatics Team. They're ok, but not a patch on the Fast Jets.
 
Was riding with a mate on that long traverse past down the valley Thredbo in 1974 and an F111 came from behind and went past level with us and was gone, out of sight, in about half a second - it may have been above the sound the barrier (would that be allowed?) because the noise was basically a massive explosion. Just about fell off the bike - scared the absolute living shite out of us!
 
Probably the best though, was on the 100th anniversary. At dawn, at the cenotaph, at Auckland Museum, for the minute silence, and I could see three hueys cruising across the harbour from Hobsonville. At exactly 61 seconds they were overhead and turned on their full WockaWocka.
Ahh, the hairs stand up on the back of my neck just thinking about it...
 
I got addicted at the Bicentenary of Australia Air Show in Richmond in 1988, well over 200,000 people in 40c heat and just about every Air Force from around the world on Display. Stand out were demos of the difference between Interceptors and Fighters, they had an older version of a Mirage doing a circuit against at the time the latest F/A-18. The latter had turned on a dime and was running rings around the earlier version. Last display was a circuit by a B52, it flew in directly from the US base on Guam, lapped the Airfield and flew straight back. Couldn't land as the Strip at Richmond wasn't long enough. Really nasty looker. Q not sure about Sonic Booms and damage, I remember as a kid the Air Force got blamed for some broken windows. And yet I saw a Mythbusters episode where they tested a shed with windows in the desert in the US by flying US Marines' Fast Jets fast and low with no damage. Concord for banned with no actual testing, from what I remember as well.
 
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Primary school days (early 60s) a Mirage broke the barrier somewhere and the boom was heard across Melbourne. Maybe as they approach Mach 1 the sound effect has multiplied to the point of 'kaboom'?

Our dad was killed in an RAAF Gloucester Meteor a month before I was born - mum already had 4 kids under the age of 5 - talk about taking a hard hit.

He'd just taken off from Mallala in South Oz. Friends of his have told me they were shitboxes.
 
I did a little Googling, there is so much misinformation on Sonic Booms. Really interesting stuff, apparently the Boom continues along the flight path as long as the Plane maintains Supersonic Speed, it's not just one bang. It's extremely rare for physical damage to occur, but it is loud enough to annoy people. NASA is doing a lot of work on ways to mitigate this sound, and that's working out well. There is interest in Super Sonic transport happening again. Super Sonic Laverdas, coming soon.
 
Club Laverda NSW CIMAA weekend away to Woodstock next Saturday 26th April. If you would like to join the run to breakfast at Tarana, let me know so I can book a table. We will be leaving BP servo North Richmond at 8.30am.
Cheers
Marty
 
Wet, misty and miserable in the IOM too. Just the weather for a bunch of classic sports car enthusiasts to enjoy racing their expensive cars up the Lhergy Frissell hill climb today. ☹️
 
The mist and rain cleared away this morning so I had a dry and fairly sunny shakedown at today’s ARA track day at Jurby on the replacement ‘Should have been a Jota’ and the ‘78 F500 ahead of my trip to Varano in about a week’s time. Just got to finish prepping the ‘80 F500, the 3X/Baines Racer being ready to go.
I must admit the Tornado was a very nice ride around the circuit and kept ahead or passed, through breaking and twisty bits, several more modern bikes. The only thing lacking was power down the main straight when it was no much for 1000 Bems and Kwackers. 😕
 

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