IBA Australia Memorial Site unveiling pix thread

kwaka

Premier Member
#1
The Rock awaits "you mob" and the unveiling...

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Mr MC, oh yeah, that'll be me...

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TJ and kwaka perform the unveiling...

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Fatman reading the "Ridden On" list and recounting some great yarns of our dearly departed...

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Derrick after finishing reading the IBA Australia poem and TJ telling us of our member Large, having a roo strike enroute to this historic event.

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Liz and LTP laid the Wreath now TJ is wrapping things up...

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"You mob..." our small LD community has forged the deepest of bonds and made friendships that are cherish dearly, that's why this site is so very special.

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Fatman

Well-Known Member
#3
Some more pics from the weekend.

General pic of the group looking south
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The flies were thick at the memorial site. TJ shoos them away, is that one above his cap!
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Gags, Lynne the Pillion, Ash (who arranged the plaque and the mounting of it) with Toura's wife Julie and me on the end beside the memorial rock
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Liz and LTP laying a wreath to honour our past IBA Aust riders who have ridden on
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The memorial plaque and also showing local Indigenous Elder, Badger Bate's carving of a boomerang and motorbike. Badger's carving seems somehow fitting in that when we ride our motorbikes always ensure we come back home, just like a boomerang
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Group pic with IBA flag
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The IBA Australia Memorial Plaque
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I was honoured to be asked to read out the 5 names of those IBA Australia members that have ridden on. They are listed below in the order that they "Rode on"

David Jones, Davo IBA # 22575 - Rode on 04 September 2009

John Ainsworth, JRA IBA # 39183 - Rode on August 2011

John Nagle, Saaz IBA # 59143 - Rode on 02 October 2015

Rob Knight, RobRoy IBA # 60566 - Rode on February 2016

Pat McLean, Toura IBA # 49588 - Rode on 29 March 2016

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Ride In Peace guys.
 
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Fatman

Well-Known Member
#7
I thought I would redo the links from Google Photos site where our pics are saved, logged into it and then they reappeared in the forum. Strange!

And now I notice when I log out of Google Photos the pics in the forum disappear again. Thoughts?

Edited again.. I just saved the pics onto the forum again and they seem ok even when I sign out of the Google Photo Account. Touch wood they stay that way.
 
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