National Rally 2014 Information & Photos

[Streak]

National Rally 2014 Information & Photos


To Start with, a massive thank you has to go to Marcus and Dan for organizing and putting together National Rally 2014!!

these are not all my photos Credit goes to IanB, Dick B Yewie, and everyone who took the time to take a shot and send it to me 



It is a credit to both of them the hard work and effort that went into making everything run so seamlessly, and for the time put aside to organize everything, you certainly went over and above for this year!

Everyone is home safe, accept Sabie, we think he is returning home just in time to leave for next years Rally!

Total Turn out

54 ST's, (plus 6 ring in brands) (last year we had 37 ST's)

85 People, (Last year we had 51 People)

Group Photo (Taken at Kryal Castle)




Award Winners

Member of the Year:

ST2UP (Chris)

Chris's work all year, made him winner of Member of the year as voted by all the Moderators,
it was our closest result yet, with Chris winning by one vote from the other nominees, Abe, Marcus & TJ189



Best Presented ST:

Sicman (Tony)

We will never hear the end of it, but Leethal judged Tony's superb ST1300 as best at rally



Furthest Traveled:

Gavo (4,600km one way to get to rally)



Silliest Moment & Most Charismatic ST

Tipsy (he won two awards this year, getting quite the collection)

He won Silliest moment for turning up to rally a week early....

As for most charismatic, well what can we say, there is no other ST like Tipsy's in the club...



Encouragement Awards:

Helen, Megan, & Pauline (Helen for all her patience with us stealing Ian, and Megan and Pauline for both riding by themselves to rally from Atherton and Townsville)



Special Presentation

Old Geezer is our first ever International Attendee all the way from USA!!
We did him up his very own OzSTOC Shirt to take back with him



Thank you to the Lions Club of Ballarat for our Saturday & Sunday Breakfasts




Saturday Ride Lunch at the Blackwood Hotel (Victorias most Haunted Pub)

a Great Feed and ride was had by all, was an amazing sight seeing the highway just lined with ST's!





OzSTOC Members Test Riding the CFMoto 650TK

with CFMoto bringing their bikes out for us to test ride and look at, they received a warm welcome, and plenty of looks and test rides!





National Rally Dinner






So it is onto 2015 in the Darling Downs in Queensland! Make sure you book your Holidays and we will see you at the next Record breaking rally!

[Brock]

I hope that Certificates of appreciation (Framed) were presented to the Lions Club and the Caravan Park. If not I can generate them or the form can be had here.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/53770433/Apreciation%20Genericl%20fillable.pdf

[Streak]

I hope that Certificates of appreciation (Framed) were presented to the Lions Club and the Caravan Park. If not I can generate them or the form can be had here.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/53770433/Apreciation%20Genericl%20fillable.pdf

yep they sure where, we just didnt get a photo unfortunately

[Brock]

Excellent

[Marcus]

Yeah they were. The problem was when I went to give them out there wasn't anyone around at the time...

Certificates of appreciation went to Lions Club, Caravan park and the Historical Society.

I didn't bother with venue place as they were used to these kinds of events...

BTW Streak, There was actually 54 STs. 50 at the castle and 54 at blackwood pub

[Brock]

Nice background

[Trevsta83]

Anyone from WA ride over? How much does it cost for the whole trip roughly? Looks like fun!

[Brock]

Yep, a few rode over, they should recover soon and post their experiences.

[HOFFY]

G'day everyone.

Just recovering from the time difference and still waking up at 4.00am each morning.

WOMBAT and I left Perth 6.30am on Monday the 17th of March, 2014 and got home at around 3.00pm on Saturday the 30th March, 2014.

I did a quick add of the costs and came up with the following;

Distance travelled      over 7100km
Fuel cost                  $743.00   (Mose expensive on the Nullabor with $2.07 a litre PULP) 
Fuel used                 386 litres travelling between 90-110km/h

Prior to leaveing purchased two new tyres (Michelins) at $550.00 fitted
Battery packed up on the Grt Ocean Road and had to be replaced at $105 (Battery World)

Didn't record accommodation but the average cost at most parks was around $30 to throw your swag on the ground out the back of the parks. Other places charged around $10.

Out of the 14 or so days we bush camped  about half the time as the weather was perfect, full moon at the beginning of the trip, lots of stars at the end of the trip.

Pulled up in my driveway on the 30.3.14 about 3.00pm and the rain fell out of the sky for hours. Someone was looking after us.

Only incident was I dropped my video camera off the suction cup as I rounded  a bend in South Aust at 110Km/h. Camera bounced like a golf ball behind me and when I returned to pick it up, it had no obvious damage but I cant get it to record anything so I have added that to the cost.

WOMBAT had a large swag across the back of his bike which added about a further 3 litres each time we filled up.

GAVO took his trailer and was restricted to between 80 & 100km/h but the bike, trailer and GAVO moved like silk along the road and although we went ahead of him, he still managed to get home before us

I'm a bit soft in my old age and could only manage about 150km before having to get off the bike for a short walk and a rub. GAVO kept plodding along until he needed fuel.

Would I do it again? Not now but give me a couple of weeks and ask me again.

WOMBAT has a truck load of photo's and will possibly put a few on the screen to make you all envious.

Regards

HOFFY.

[sargent]

Thanks for that Hoffy,
Fatigue must be a factor in those long rides or just different time calender zones in WA to the rest of us....   .

Here in Canberra ( yes I know were a little different) Saturday was only the 29th.

[HOFFY]

Well you have to remember we had to leave one state referred to as Mexico to get into the real world and I feel that I was lucky to lose a day and nothing else.

I take your point, even though we did travel a lot, yes we did arrive home on Saturday the 29th. Bugger, where did I put that extra day.

[rally]

 

Did not make it this year, but the photos make you jealous, then stir you up that you were not there... well done chaps, really professional, just have to make the next one, and the articles in the magazines support it also.

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