Next Ride, Dayboro and Clea...

We liked it so much, we had to go again. The next of the sunday morning rides was a fairly quick one to Dayboro. We weren't sure of the weather this time, but it cleared up nicely for us. We were also joined this time by my Brother-in-law, Simon on his Honda CB1300. Again, left at 7am from the BP at Albany Creek, heading north this time. Left into Eatons Crossing Rd, being careful of the fool roadworks just between the corner and the first set of lights. Up to 80 after the lights and scoot up to turn right onto Lilly Rd, where we picked up Simon. We headed up Lilly (which turns into Ira Buckby Rd) and then turned left onto Samsonvale Road at the end.

If you keep going along this road, it will take you through Mt Samson, and you will end up on the Samford/Dayboro Road. We decided to try an alternative and headed right onto Forgan Road. This takes you past Lake Samsonvale and you meet up with Young's Crossing Road. Turn left here, then left at the end of this road and you are on Dayboro Road heading to, surpirse surprise, Dayboro.

Now you need to be careful here. We stopped in Dayboro at the Bakery for a coffee and, if you are like me and trying to reign in an expanding waist line, get one of your mates to buy your coffee for you, because the display cabinets inside will be your undoing:) I managed to hold onto a shred of self control and got out of there with only a small iced bun and my coffee. It's a good place to sit at that time of the day, because it is right across from the turn off to Mt Mee, so on a sunday morning, you can watch the endless stream of machinery and riders heading up the mountain. More than a few of them had the same idea about the coffee and (evil) food, so it's a good place for a chat with other riders too.

Back on the bikes, we headed south out of Dayboro on the road to Samford. More than a few riders comming in the opposite direction gave us some frantic hand signals to slow down, and sure enough, about 5km south of Dayboro, we passed Mr Plod on the side of the road with his cash register flashing the unsuspecting speeders. Of which there were few given the amount of warnings everyone was getting. Anyhow, instead of heading into Samford, we turned left (sharply) onto Winn Rd, then a sharp right onto Clear Mountain Rd. Watch this one, it's not well signed and I would have missed it completely if Simon hadn't taken the lead for this bit. The road over clear mountain is simply fantastic, with incredible scenery and a road surface in quite good condition. It's well worth a run over if you've not done it before. When this road ends at Eatons Crossing Rd, we turned right and headed back in the direction of Samford again. Before getting too far along though, another left into Bunya Rd took us along another one of those roads you just can't believe is so close to the center of Brisbane. I turned off at Ferny Hills, but once you get into the Ferny Hills/Arana Hills area, a left onto the Jinker Track will take you back to Old Northern Rd and you are back at your starting point.

This one all up was only about 70km, and with a reasonable stay at Dayboro, I was back home before 9am. And yes, again I have a 1984 Virago, so this is good time for me:) I'll put a rant in the "Brett on Bikes" section about Good Time vs a Good Time. Anyway, this was a great ride, and made even better by doing it with good company who don't want to set records.