BreakFast Club does Winter Solstice
02 July 2015 / Words: Adam Walker / Photos: Bryan Shedden, Alan Voung
7am McDonalds Heathcote the car park was slowly filling with our treasured roadsters. 14 members (some first timers to a Club run), 2 guests braved the cold in 13 cars for the BreakFast Club’s Winter Solstice Run.
The clouds parted their way and the sun was starting to warm up the roads, this was going to be a good day!
We departed after a quick briefing and were met with a plethora of cyclists and trucks along the Old Princes Highway and Appin Road. The first waypoint was in Appin where we all re-gathered for the spirited run down and through Broughton Pass before jumping on the Hume for a quick 10km blast down the highway.
Jumping off the highway landed us in the empty “B” roads running adjacent to the highway. We briskly passed though the small town of Yerrinbool and onto some personal favorites including Old South Road, the Range Road rollercoaster and Tourist Road along the Southern Highlands escarpment to the base of Robertson.
Second waypoint was at the Robertson Pie Shop, everyone jumped out of their cars with a smile ear to ear. After a quick pit stop it was a right turn down towards the coast via the recently resurfaced and challenging Jamberoo Mountain Road though Jamberoo then along and around Saddleback Mountain before entering Kiama from the Southern End.
BreakFast (or Brunch by the time we arrived) was happily hosted by the Milkandhoney Café near the Kiama Lighthouse for a great feed and lots of ND talk.
Everyone departed ways after Brunch in all directions, with some members even doing the reversal of the morning’s run.
The MX5 Club is hosting the Brass Monkey on the 12th July, This is one event not to be missed – One for the Bucket List.
