By Monday morning, Cooma Car Club had a total of 42 entries in this weekend’s long-running annual Girder Fork Rally.
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Organisers anticipate further entries so that Cooma Monaro residents will be able to see and hear the unmistakable sounds of around 45 to 50 classic motor bikes.
The rally is exclusive to pre-1950 girder fork motor cycles and their riders, and the organisers are expecting around 50 of these classic machines and their riders to roll into Cooma on Friday.
Among the interesting machines entered are a 1918 Wolesley entered by George Keats, Ian Richardson will be riding his 1915 Rudge Multigear and Barry Graham is riding a 1929 Brough Superior.
Continuously Variable Transmissions (CVTs) are now being fitted to a number of modern cars in order to achieve better fuel economy, and are thought to be a modern development. However, in 1912 Rudge released the first Rudge Multigear CVT and a Rudge Multigear won the 1914 Isle of Man TT.
The prime attraction for the entrants is riding the uncrowded scenic sealed roads of the Cooma-Monaro region.
This year there are three lady riders proving that Classic motor bikes are not just toys for boys.
There will be a short “tune-up” 30 km run on Friday afternoon, October 14. The bikes and riders will depart the Cooma Car Club Clubhouse in Bolaro Street at 2pm.
There will be two runs on Saturday. The riders and bikes will be at the Car Club Clubhouse from 8 to 9am when they will depart for Ando for morning tea, arriving at around 10am. The bikes will leave Ando around 11am, returning to Cooma via the Snowy River Way and the Maffra-Bobundra Rd, arriving at the Cooma Car Clubhouse around 12noon for judging, total 147 km. In the afternoon, the participants will ride out along Kosciuszko Road, Eucumbene Rd, Middlingbank Rd and return to Cooma via Slack’s Creek Road. The total ride for the day will be 226 km.
On Sunday, the riders and bikes are at the Clubhouse from around 8.30 am, departing at 9.30am to ride out along Shannons Flat Rd to the end of the bitumen and return for a total of 60 kms.
The 2017 Girder Fork Rally, is the first of Cooma’s festival of spring motoring events.
