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Bikes to Mona

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Last Sunday, 23rd April 2017 Bicyclists: Kimber, Porter, Larkey, Fitzgibbon The autumn leaves on the grape vines at Moorilla, crushing and extracting going on in the shed. Wine soon. The plan: Introduce Larkey to a bike weighing less than 1 kiloton, and see if that helps his striding out. Secondly, all for a calm journey in good weather. We started away from RYCT at a little after 9am. Overcast but warmish, and once up Napoleon Street Hill, there were no complaints. We drifted down the Battery Point and agreed that there was no need for a bike track around the front of the houses, from our perspective, as the journey was quite interesting on the road built for it. Around the waterfront, through the milling people, and up to the Cenotaph - shortly thereafter to be the scene of wild cavorting on ANZAC day. A pleasant and not difficult or fast trip out on the bike track had us arrive at Glenorchy and 'why not go on' - so we determined on MONA for coffee. Arriving only