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Velosolex Owners Group
May Run – The end of VOG’s summer season
What a fantastic day Tuesday 11 May was both weather wise and for VOG riding in fact one could almost call it therapeutic as we purred off from the Halswell Quarry Park to do a run in the country as organised by VCC & VOG member Wayne Gath.
A fairly straight forward but interesting ride this month with no dramas around the Old Tai Tapu Rd & Rhodes Rd area. It was a very nostalgic ride for our recently turned Octogenarian John Thompson of Model T and Penny Farthing fame. John tells me this was where he did his courting of his then “wife to be” Jenny whose parents had a farm on the hills in the Rhodes Rd area. A trip down memory lane for John. No farming here now but large magnificent residential homes set on attractively landscaped sections set on the slopes of these foothills. Talking of foothills we even struck some of these on Rhodes Rd where some of the lads had to do some pedal assist to get the Solex and the rider over these rises. There was even a short 1/2km of shingle to add to the excitement of the ride and with us being mostly smooth tarmac riders it was quite a “challenge”. Everyone survived these ordeals and we eventually ended up at our lunch break at the Tai Tapu Hotel where the staff had set up tables outside under large shady umbrellas. What a great venue this was - very tranquil. A very enjoyable autumn ride this was, we will now put our machines to rest for the next 2 months and give them their annual tune up to try and find that extra 2km/hr.
