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The Tourers Christmas Ride!

Sunday 20 December 2009

Santa (this year on a Cagiva) led an intrepid bunch of good boys and girls for a Christmas ride to Lake Mountain. Meanwhile, the VicRoads road hazard hotline was jammed with calls about Christmas mirror-ball baubles rolling along the Black and Reefton spurs.

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Some early photos, courtesy of Brett, Adz and Mofflehoff, are posted at in the Tourers photo gallery, and look out for the full ride report in the next edition of "Chain Lube"!


Update: Justin has also uploaded a video that gives a view of the ride from Reefton to the Lake Mountain turnoff from the perspective of one of Santa's elves had he chosen to ride on the fuel tank of Juzzie's new Daytona 675.



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