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You guys just disappeared so I slowed right down for about 5 mins and still no one to be seen. I too got an evil stare from the Kodak patrol but luckily they had a bunch of bikes that were doing stupid crap in front of me that they were more interested in.

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Well out of the 2 cruises i've been on, this was by far the best because everyone was socialable, stuck together while on the road (something that seems to go amiss on others) without even a glimpse of stupidity and from go to woh, only approx 4hrs in which there was plenty of time at the spit to chill! If the qld club did something like this but maybe with a $1 sausage sizzle at the spit for a quick social event every now and then i'd be there with bells on

C'mon down john! Eagar for those photos mate :P

hehe, just waitin for carlee tonight to send me the pics. its all on her digital camera. once I got them, i'll post them all up.

cruise was awesome. though there was only us 5 cars (total of 7 of us), it was a enjoyful day where we socialised pretty well by standin on the road cookin our skin for about 20mins and goin red, then movin over into the shade.

if every sunday becomes free for me like it was yesterday, im more then happy to do this every sunday afternoon and yeah, we should put on a bbq. since i'm NOT the even co-ordinator, we could always take our own meat along and cook it up!

Love to but i'll be in melbourne this weekend :) But I was told once that life does go on when i'm not around! Who would've thunk it. :lol:

Keen for another one though at a later date. It was an enjoyable little cruise and get together!

I'm more up for it each Sunday afternoon. I would have to say it's alot better being down the coast of a Sunday afternoon then a Saturday night.

I start work 4am this Sunday and finish around 10am. So, if I'm still up and about, I'm up for another Sunday cruise down to the spit. I'll look around this sunday if I do go for any BBQ's within the area we were sitting in. Would be good to have a BBQ as well!

hahahahahahahahaha did someone say usually not many cops at the spit????

f**k me dead its worse then bwcp. sumtimes u will get lucky and c like 1 or 2 the whole day, but most times i go there they sit at the entrance, which is the only exsit, and radio down to cops waiting at defect stations, or they will just have the usual setup on the side of the road were they arse rape u on the fly.

take it from a regular spitter, u go there, its all bueatifull with the nice views and all the nice cars and no cops, but the next weekend you will neally have to sell ya car to pay for fines. hahahaha, trust me ive ridden home with mates in tow trucks b4 cause the cops are that bad there.

just a friendly warning, but yeh ill still go, cops dont scare me, u cant avoid em, hell i got defected 8am in the morning on the way to work just b4 christmas hahaha

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