Corkscrew Weekend
Start Options: To keep the run to two day event everyone has the option of driving up to Patrick Bramston’s Mountain View Motel at Bulahdelah for the night on Friday 25 August 2016 (maximum of 20 people with overflow accommodation elsewhere) or drive up at sparrows on Saturday morning in time to start at 7,00am or catch up at the brekkie stop. The drive from Hornsby to Bulahdelah on the M1 is around 2.5 hours. Breakfast/brunch will be at the Riverbank Café, 8 Kinchela Street Gladstone overlooking the junction of the Macleay and Belmore Rivers.
Two Epic Climbs: The Corkscrew Weekend is designed to tick off two of the best MX-5 climbs in NSW, the “Corkscrew” known as the Armidale Road (both down & back up) that snakes it way up along the eastern escarpment of the Great Dividing Range for 45km between Nymboida and Tyringham on your GPS then on to Dorrigo on similar roads without the climbing for another 20km and the 40km section of the much loved Oxley Highway with 200 corners on the ascent to the New England plateau.
Three Iconic Roads: On the Corkscrew Weekend you can also tick off a run or three iconic roads being the Nurbushring (the Bulahdelah Mountain section of the old Pacific Highway and once the most deadly section of road in NSW before being bypassed), the spectacular Waterfalll Way from Bellingen to Dorrigo and fabulous Thunderbolt’s Way between Walcha and Gloucester that features long straights with wide corners intermixed with tight sections over 146km and the Manning River gorge on sealed road.
Refreshment Stops: We will take refreshments at the Dorrigo Rainforest National Park facility on Saturday, meet up with some members from the Mid North Coast Chapter for dinner on Saturday night and lunch at Roadies Café in Gloucester on Sunday on our way home. The plan is to get back to Hornsby by late Sunday afternoon.
Friday Night Accommodation (25 August 2016) details:- Mountain View Motel, Old Pacific Highway Bulahdelah, Tel: (02) 4997 4292 (cost of $35 for a single and $70 for a twin/double) call Patrick to book a bed. You may have to share a room if all the single rooms are spoken for or stay in another motel.
Saturday Night Accommodation (26 August 2016) details: Excelsior Motel, 92 William Street, Port Macquarie (cost of $95 for a single and $115 for a double) call the motel management on (02) 6584 5156 and book a room.
IF YOU WISH TO JOIN THE RUN RSVP BY EMAIL TO breakfast@mx5.com.au
THE FOLLOWING MEMBERS HAVE BOOKED ACCOMMODATION
1. Michael Soulos + 1 (Friday night)
2. Peter Battisson (Friday night)
3. Mark & Kareene Kavanagh (Saturday morning)
4. Bruce Davies (Friday night)
5. Greg Casamento (Saturday morning)
6. Andrew Lord (Friday night)
7. Steven Lord (Friday night)
8. Brad Robinson (Friday night)
9. Mike Walkden-Brown (Gladstone)
10. Greg Cox (Gladstone)
11. Ben Haynes (Friday night)
12. Daniel Hill (Friday night)
13. Gary Clark (Bellingen)
14. Josh Allen (Friday Night)
15. Patrick Bramston (Saturday morning)
16. Kevin Attrill (Gladstone)
17. Tim Lakos (Sunday)
