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5th Aussie Triples Rally
15-18 August, 2014 – Ballina NSW
This rally is for British Triples, Tridents, BSA Rocket 3’s and specials using the three cylinder 750 motor built from 1968 – 1975. 44 entrants from Perth, Adelaide, Geelong, ACT, Central QLD and many places in between arrived at Ballina for 3 days of riding. The ‘Man of the Match’ went to Steve Collins who rode a T160 from Albany WA – 9,970kms return. It was nice to see a BSA Rocket 3 that has done over 300,000 miles and has had three rebuilds. They just keep going! Also in attendance was a Legend, one of 62 built in 1976 and a very rare bike in this part of the world. The Ballina area had 118mm of rain on Saturday, our main ride day, but that didn’t deter the keen riders. As we travelled away from the coast the rain eased a little, however the lunch stop at Evans Head meant riding into a large black rain cloud again. The bikes were lined up for judging here and the fact that all had just covered 200kms on wet muddy roads meant that the show bikes and the well used bikes were all on an equal footing. Once again excellent marshalling was provided by waterlogged members of the Northern Rivers Classic Motorcycle Club. The presentation dinner at Ballina Lakeside Holiday Park was a great night with the unique trophies, supplied by Jeff at Re-engineered Concentrics. Following this was our Charity Auction with our exclusive Auctioneer Scotty from Singleton selling off merchandise donated by the Trident & Rocket 3 Owners Club based in England.Apart from the rain a good weekend was had and encouragement for Aussie Triples Rally No 6 was overwhelming. The 3 ACT based TRMA representatives went home with three trophies. It was great to see & hear, Attilio’s Rob North on the road with us.