Queensland Ride for Sick Kids

The riders arrived at Herston to great cheers from the family, friends and Ronald!

 We went up to the house and enjoyed a great lunch. Everyone sat and chatted with some of the families of sick kids. Scott thanked the support crew for their efforts during the week and gave special mention to Shane and Matt for helping organise the event. Tony A from Wagga thanked everyone on the ride for the support and the camaraderie on the behalf  the NSW riders (himself and Wazza) and pledged his support for the ride in Qld next year.

Doug were there to greet us at the Mater house. After a tour of the house and a chat with one of the volunteers we left for Herston via the Story Bridge.

All the last day ‘add in’ riders and have arrived and after a breakfast supplied by Steve we headed off to the house.  The fresh ‘ring in’ riders set a cracking pace! Mike A made up for missing the rest of the tour by leading the group with Tony A  thru the hills.

Late arrival/heroes

·         $1500 Dr Ash

·         $100 Tim ‘ pasta’ Johnson

·         $100 Cameron ‘pizza’ Toomey

·         $2000  Mike Bolton

·         $2000 Mike A

·         $2000 Joe Condon

·         $100  Josh Banister

Dave K - $10 finding his pens in his Ute

Tony A - $20 for accepting two free pens from Dave K

Keith - $10 zero to hero – Nick giving him a push and then passing the pack

Wazza - $10 for struggling to open the esky every stop!

Sandy - $10 hustling the group on her ability (continually in the top class)

Shane - $10 for packing his wife in his suitcase

Wazza - $10 for sleeping thru yesterdays 2010 ride meeting

Dave - $10 ‘don’t follow Ben, follow Adam’

Adam - $10 Going wrong way - not following directions as planned

Ben - $10 tree lopping

Adam - $10 calling rest stop 3 km early

Mark - $10 ‘Watch out for the sign’ (not the bike)

Tony K - $10 not seeing the tree lopping

Tony K - $10 leaving his Apple notebook charger in Kilcoy

Scott - $10 ridiculously weak bladder

Marcus - $10 drafting Scott

Adam - $10 complaining about nature stops

Glen - $10 postman-ing up the hill

JB - $10 drafting behind Glen then taking the day 4 race

Going home early $10 each

• Adam
• Nick
• Wazza
• Dave

Tony K - $10 falling of his chair at Mc

Wazza - $10 taking Tony A’s skim latte

Glen - $10 having a puncher at Caboolture Mc and getting a lift back before changing it

1^st Mechanical

·         $10 Tony A first flat

·         $10 Wazza for having a flat at the same stop and not noticing

Slip streaming - $10 Nick for slip streaming behind Adam into Kilcoy

King of the Mountain - $10 Wazza for being too worn out to lead but wins the race to the top

Dummy spit – $10 Adams dummy spit in Esk

Wrong rest stop - $10 Shane stopping at wrong rest stop in Esk

Getting a free ride - $10 Keith for getting a lift up the hill to Somerset

No beer? - $10 Glenn for not having a beer and ordering a lemon lime and bitters in the Kilcoy pub

Kilcoy Yowies – Kilcoy League Team for watching Getaway on TV in the pub and not watching the Ashes

Chain tattoos - $10 Scotty

Massage - $10 Tony K getting a massage from a Yowie in Kilcoy

Dobbers - $10 each Wazza & Matt for dobbing in JB for wearing his IPod

IPod - $10 JB for listening to his IPod up the hill to Somerset Dam

We had a great dinner at the Stanley Motel sponsors of the local Yowie Rugby League team who are ‘proudly’ of their undefeated win in the annual knockout competition!
A big thanks goes to Tony A for once again supporting the Qld Ride for Sick Kids and making the trip up from Wagga. Thanks Tony for shouting us all dinner!

The support crew had barely unpacked the kit for the riders when Nick hit the hotel in Gatton. He had barely raised a sweat motoring into town at around 70 kph. Pushing people up hill all morning had clearly troubled him little as the rest of the group arrived 10 minutes later.