Today I rode out to the FarmFest site at Kingsthorpe for the last day of 19th National Historic Machinery Rally. The weather was fine but windy.
I rode west from Toowoomba on the Cecil Plains road. I was supposed to turn onto Brimblecombe Rd, but missed the sign and kept riding on. When I realised that I'd gone too far I checked my map app and decided to turn off at Biddeston and loop around until I reached the highway.
I pedalled along until I came to an intersection where a man on an adventure motorbike waited for me to pass by. I stopped for a chat and he told my if I turned there, and took the first left after the road turned to gravel, it would end at Brimblecombe Rd. So that's what I did.
I arrived at the FarmFest site at one. The ticket office had closed, so if I hadn't bought a ticket on line I could have got in for free!
For the next couple of hours I rode around the site looking at the wide variety of equipment on display. Steam traction engines, steam rollers, a steam truck, vintage trucks including one with caterpillar tracks at the back. There was also a display of miniature steam engines, and there were some vintage cars.
I stopped to sketch a Rumley OilPull,
oil cooled, kerosene fuelled, tractor.
At three I rode home via Brimblecombe Rd and the Cecil Plains Rd. The ride was 76.5 km all up.
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