GlANCE BACK - RoNNy BiGGS

By Gary Bennett, Member #509

In the last journal the “Breakfast with Ronnie Biggs” club ride was mentioned and a few members wouldn’t know what that ride was about, well I can tell you as I was the organiser of it. It was the first ride I organised as a relatively new club member in July 2001. Ronald Biggs, the infamous British train robber had just handed himself in after living in Rio for many years and one of the local radio stations found a cafe in Redcliffe that was owned by a gentleman named Ronald Biggs. They interviewed him and it was revealed that he had all-you-caneat breakfasts for $5, so Teena and I decided we would go there and see what it was like. It was great; a great location looking out over the Jetty and Moreton Bay and it was a great breakfast. I was time poor back then and putting on a breakfast ride close to Brisbane suited me so I could be home before lunch to mow the lawns etc. I actually led a ride after on that first event and then the subsequent write up for the Journal, which appears on the following page. The ride was an annual event in July and ran for 10 years, the cafe changed hands a few times and the priced climbed and they eventually dropped the all-you-can-eat. So we called it quits. The moral of this story is, if you are a new member all you need is a destination, an enjoyable way to get there, put it up on facebook and club members will roll up. The next ride I organised was my first weekender… I’ll leave that story for next month.