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Title: RTE Dinner Sun 7 Dec 2025 - Dakabin Hotel
Post by: Shiney on November 12, 2025, 12:06:19 PM

RTE Dinner Sun 7 Dec 2025 - Dakabin Hotel

Event Information:

WendyL is going to be in town on this weekend and would like to catch up with OzSTOCers in SE Qld.

A Dinner RTE at the Dakabin Hotel at Dakabin has been organised.

Table currently booked for 10, but can be extended, so please RSVP as soon as possible.

(https://comiskey.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Dakabin-Hotel-Streetscape-scaled.jpg)


Location:
289 Old Gympie Rd,
Dakabin QLD 4503



Time:

6:00pm   (Table booked for 6:30pm)


Venue:

https://www.dakabinhotel.com.au/ (https://www.dakabinhotel.com.au/)


Contact:
Contact for this ride is Shiney & Gadget


So Grab your OzSTOC Shirt, and put your name down to attend!

Title: Re: RTE Dinner Sun 7 Dec 2025 - Dakabin Hotel
Post by: Wild Rose on November 18, 2025, 03:28:29 PM

I won't be able to make this
But a big HI to Wendy  :hatwave
Hope to see you at the National Rally '26 in Sutton  :thumbsup

Title: Re: RTE Dinner Sun 7 Dec 2025 - Dakabin Hotel
Post by: Shiney on November 18, 2025, 04:29:02 PM

Interested in attending this RTE:

Shiney & Carrol
WendyL
Gadget & Shonee



Put your name down below if you would like to attend!  :thumb

Title: Re: RTE Dinner Sun 7 Dec 2025 - Dakabin Hotel
Post by: Shiney on November 29, 2025, 07:58:17 PM

Interested in attending this RTE:

Shiney & Carrol
WendyL
Gadget & Shonee
Ollie94


Put your name down below if you would like to attend!  :thumb

Title: Re: RTE Dinner Sun 7 Dec 2025 - Dakabin Hotel
Post by: niftynev19 on November 30, 2025, 10:14:37 AM

 :rd13  Count us in Shiney, Angie, myself and my youngest who just turned 18. Cheers.  :candystwheelie

Title: Re: RTE Dinner Sun 7 Dec 2025 - Dakabin Hotel
Post by: Shiney on November 30, 2025, 03:58:00 PM

Interested in attending this RTE:

Shiney & Carrol
WendyL
Gadget & Shonee
Ollie94
niftynev19 & Angie + youngest


Put your name down below if you would like to attend!  :thumb

Title: Re: RTE Dinner Sun 7 Dec 2025 - Dakabin Hotel
Post by: Diesel on December 01, 2025, 10:24:32 AM

I'll be there  :hatwave

Title: Re: RTE Dinner Sun 7 Dec 2025 - Dakabin Hotel
Post by: DaleAP on December 01, 2025, 03:25:26 PM

Interested in attending this RTE:

Shiney & Carrol
WendyL
Gadget & Shonee
Ollie94
niftynev19 & Angie + youngest
Diesel
DaleAP



Put your name down below if you would like to attend!  :thumb

Title: Re: RTE Dinner Sun 7 Dec 2025 - Dakabin Hotel
Post by: Shiney on December 05, 2025, 12:40:21 PM

Interested in attending this RTE:

Shiney & Carrol
WendyL
Gadget & Shonee
Ollie94
niftynev19 & Angie + youngest
Diesel
DaleAP
Timbo


Put your name down below if you would like to attend!  :thumb

Title: Re: RTE Dinner Sun 7 Dec 2025 - Dakabin Hotel
Post by: Gadget on December 07, 2025, 06:06:34 PM

We're here.

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Title: Re: RTE Dinner Sun 7 Dec 2025 - Dakabin Hotel
Post by: Diesel on December 08, 2025, 02:06:35 PM

OMG!!!!


I had the most challenging ride of my career on the way home.

We knew a storm was coming, but woooaaah! It was berserk! I'm lucky to be here. I checked the weather app earlier that day and no storm appeared to be apparent.

Riding at night for a start, brings its own challenges with wildlife etc, so I was definitely riding to the conditions. Saw a fox, rabbit and then some loose cattle on the road just after Esk and the aftermath of the storm.

THE STORM: Holeeee! It was cyclonic conditions with a wall of water coming in literally sideways and instantly drenching me as if I had jumped in a creek.
It hit me between Kilcoy and Harlin with no protection to stop at in between, My spotlights were useless as when lit up, the amount of sideways rain made the reflection back into my eyes overpowering. The wind was ferocious. I was down to 20km/h! I was being hit by showers of bark from the roadside eucalypts. I was actually very concerned about a bow, limb or even whole tree coming down on me. I was looking up to see if I needed to emergency brake. There were no other cars for the duration.

The amount of flotsum on the road was unbelievable, and quite a hazard. This 25 minutes were some of the most intense of my life!
I crawled into Harlin and took shelter under the servo awning, where another car was doing the same.
I needed a break. I had to completely reset, and wait for the storm to subside.

I stayed there for 40 odd minutes, just drying equipment, changing my wringing wet shirt. I found my wet weather gear and fluoro hi-vis top to put on.
I gulped down some water, washed my windscreen from the many bugs and finally continued on.

Then came the fog as I climbed up into the Ravensbourne National Park. There was bark, sticks and limbs all over the road, so I still barely got over 50km/h.
Then came the cattle scurrying of the road. The fog and solid rain masked my vision and forced me to ride slowly on low beam.
Out of the blackness came abruptly into view, a huge downed bow in the middle of the road! I propped, braked, swerved in to the only gap left to pass through, and remember feeling some of the tree hit by boot as a went past.
This happened two more times, although these two were slightly smaller. It was frightening seeing them pop out of the darkness, not knowing how many more times this would occur.
I finally crawled into Hampton at the top of the range, and made my way to Crow's Nest. The weather had subsided by now, and there was just thick fog to deal with.
After thinking I was over it, there was one last immense downpour as I rode toward Crow's Nest.
I arrived home at 1.10am drenched and mentally drained.
I got out of all my wet gear, had a hot shower, a hot coffee, and finally jumped into a warm bed at 2.20am - glad to have made it.
I learned a lot from this ride, and I'm certain I'll never have anything that challenging again.

Sorry for the long post - but wow! You should have been there! Lol.

As per usual, a wonderful dinner with great people in a lovely venue. Thanks to all who were able to come out and enjoy with us. Nice to meet you John.  :thumb

Cheers, Diesel

Title: Re: RTE Dinner Sun 7 Dec 2025 - Dakabin Hotel
Post by: ruSTynutz on December 08, 2025, 02:21:28 PM

Ahhh, the joys of motorcycling!  :thumbsup

Glad you made it home in one piece, Diesel!  :clap

Title: Re: RTE Dinner Sun 7 Dec 2025 - Dakabin Hotel
Post by: Wild Rose on December 08, 2025, 04:10:38 PM

What an adventure, glad you made it home safe
Dangerous enough through the day but night time would have been so scary
Glad you had a great night catching up with Wendy and the Qld crew
Thanks for sharing

Title: Re: RTE Dinner Sun 7 Dec 2025 - Dakabin Hotel
Post by: DaleAP on December 08, 2025, 04:14:04 PM

Quote from: Diesel on December 08, 2025, 02:06:35 PM

and I'm certain I'll never have anything that challenging again.

You realise you just jinxed yourself?  ;-*

Glad you made it home in one piece mate. I would say it's character building, but you're enough of a character already!  :rofl :rofl :rofl

Title: Re: RTE Dinner Sun 7 Dec 2025 - Dakabin Hotel
Post by: niftynev19 on December 11, 2025, 03:01:40 PM

Diesel, that's one hell of a nightmare ride. Glad you made back home in one piece. Now I really feel wimpy for driving Wife and I in the Son's Corolla to the event. Not sure I'd be ready for such a hardcore ride as that though. Although I did ride home in a severe lightning storm long time ago. Nothing like Diesels ride though. That sounded epic.
Great to see everyone again, great meal and location. Angie and I had a good time. Cheers.

Title: Re: RTE Dinner Sun 7 Dec 2025 - Dakabin Hotel
Post by: Shiney on December 11, 2025, 08:49:13 PM

I'm a bit late on the RR but here we go.

This was the shortest ride to any RTE I have ever been to.
I finished work and rode about 4 minutes to the hotel, just about everyone was already there and the others arrived shortly after (including Carrol in her new car).

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After a chat around the bikes we headed in and ordered food and drinks.
The food was great and company was awesome.

(https://i.ibb.co/CKcbJN6Z/20251207-193004.jpg)   (https://i.ibb.co/21HGqLZG/20251207-184943.jpg)

We had a great time with everyone and just wish we had more time to hang around and chat.

Anyway, thankyou to everyone that was able to make it and I hope to see you at another RTE soon :hatwave


Cheers
Shiney