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Brass Monkey Weekend 1-2 July

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#1 ·
Hi all
We are going on a MHWeekend ride with an overnighter at the Jennings Hotel on the first weekend of July.

Rough plan will be White Swamp Rd, Beaury Creek Rd then Paddy's Flat to the Bruxner across to Tenterfield and up to Jennings.

We will be staying at the Jennings Pub.
Rooms $80 per head which includes dinner and breakfast.
Camping available out the back of the pub.

All welcome to join us or make your own way there.
We won't be going fast on the dirt as I am still learning and getting used to the wobbling around. :fineprint: :wink2:

Cheers GotaV2 and V2man
 
#2 ·
We will be staying at the Jennings Pub.
Rooms $80 per head which includes dinner and breakfast.
Camping available out the back of the pub.
That is very tempting...what a good deal. I will check my availability and see what the little lady says. It will be cold as your title indicates but worth every bit as its great country. Cheers.
 
#6 ·
Sounds Great. I will call and book accom today or tomorrow,
 
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#7 ·
Rang the Jennings Hotel and Lyn organised a room for me, but only after I mentioned Hugh's name!!!
 
#11 ·
What is it with pubs and bookings........on our Tassie trip only two pubs got it right. Most used an old diary and it was full of scratch and scribble. Very annoying. Two did not have our booking and it pissed us off. We even confirmed a month or so in advance.
:confused:

Planning and booking well ahead in Aus is not worth it, unless you carefully confirm.

Even on the other ride you missed Gary, last weekend, I called to confirm and change mine to a single rather than a double as the missus could not attend, perhaps doing them a favour. Luckily the daughter called to check and said "I hear you want to cancel all the rooms". What the %^&$. I would have been popular on our arrival, it is scary.

I say: Get it right dudes, you are in the accommodation industry. :furious:
 
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#15 ·
G'day All,

Rang the Jennings pub a few days ago and there were still two rooms available with 2 x single beds in each if anyone else decides to join us. :thumbup:

We will be having Breakfast at Flavours in Boonah at approx. 0900.

Then our rough plan is White Swamp Rd, Beaury Creek Rd then Paddy's Flat to the Bruxner across to Tenterfield and up to Jennings.

However we want to use this ride to get some practice in with our camera equipment :fineprint: for our bigger trip in August.

So if anyone that joins us don't feel you have to stay with us for the day, you can ride at your own pace and meet us there :yesnod:

Cheers V2man & GotaV2
 
#16 ·
I just got back from a couple of nights away for work and have a bit on, so I will have to give this a miss. The brass monkey festival in Stanthorpe looks pretty cool, lots of local music. You guys will have a great night. More planning on my behalf for next year. Thanks for posting this up.

I am looking at Woodenbong though........a weekend away in July.
 
#19 ·
Your more than welcome to come on up & join us...have to warn you tho the temps for Jennings were -4 to 16 :yikes:

It was -3.7 at 7 O'clock this morning and didn't get above 17 till we got back to Rathdowney.

Cheers
 
#20 ·
G'day All,

Well a big thanks for those that braved the cold and joined us for the inaugural Brass Monkey weekend at Jennings as we are thinking of making it an annual winter get together. :yesnod:

We left a bit later than planned and had a really good ride down thru White Swamp with TDU and the Pumpkin to arrive at Jennings about 3pm.











As we arrived at Jennings GH adventurers were just leaving to go explore the area

So as we settled in the rest of the brave souls arrived



Thunder (Alec) arrived as did Ozmultis (Andrew) and Strongarm (Ian)





After everyone had arrived and changed it was time for a few quite drinks around the fire.



Before dinner



After dinner and a few bottles of red everyone headed off to bed and their electric blankets, temp was forecast for a low -4.

Cheers GotaV2 & V2man
 
#21 ·
Hi all
After a really nice breakfast of juice, cereal, toast, bacon and scrambled eggs we said our farewells to Strongarm and Ozmultis and the rest of us headed up to Ballandean to check out the Pyramid

Link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballandean_Pyramid









Gary and Heiw on the Widow



GotaV2 on the DR



GotaV2 crossing the bridge at Koreelah



A quick stop at the Bong for lunch and then we said farewell to G&H then we headed for home.

We will do a short video when time permits :smile:

So till then stay tuned.......

Cheers GotaV2 and V2man
 
#24 ·
NICE! Looking like a plan, I would love to make it next year. Just a bit on at the moment. The shots look really good, great blue skies. The shot of the meal and wine is very appealing. There's nothing better that a fire and some good folks to share it with. Looking forward to the vid.....
 
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#25 · (Edited)
So that's the famous Ballandean Pyramid, nice shot from above Ang. It was a good weekend, great to catch with old mates over a good local red.
A few pics from the ride up

The Bruxner Hwy



An old tobacco drying shed



 

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#26 ·
So that's the famous Ballandean Pyramid, nice shot from above Ang. It was a good weekend, great to catch with old mates over a good local red.
Yeh how many times have we ridden past and never seen it before. :confused:
It was good you could make it Ian and great to catch up with you too.

Thanks for posting your pics :thumbsup:

Cheers GotaV2 and V2man
 
#27 ·
Hi all
Well we have done a video from the weekend :smile:

Link


Hope you enjoy :wink:

Cheers GotaV2 and V2man
 
#28 ·
Great camera angles off the bike. The area around the pyramid looks great from the drone. A great concept to add to ride reports, it has brought us into the current century! [that's the done, not the pyramid]

Your guitar work is getting pretty groovy there Hugh.....(we wish), it's a good track you guys chose.

Nice. And thanks. [i want to be in it next year] Did you get to Stanthorpe for the actual brass monkey festival etc.?
 
#29 ·
G'day Trevor,

Thanks for for the comments :thumbup:

Yes the drone has added another level/layer to the videos and theres a few options we haven't tried yet :yesnod: & we have a few more different camera angles to try as well to make the vid's more interesting :wink2:

I actually took guitar lessons when I was younger.....what a waste of freakin money they were :green_lol::grin2:

No we didn't get to the festival, we had a slow start with an 0830 breakfast and then the ride home, maybe next year :yesnod:

Cheers Hugh & Ang
 
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