A rally for on-road and off-road pre-1975 motorcycles will be a key part of this year’s Capel River Classic at Capel River, two hours south of Perth, in early October.
“The Rustic Off-Road Rally” is part of the annual Capel River Classic event, which is hosted by the Ironstone Adventure Riding Club and includes The Bike Shed Times Capel River Classic Motorcycle Show & Shine, Swap Meet, and Classic Car Display. The Saturday October 5 event will include a licensed bar, food and coffee.
“The Rustic Off-Road Rally” is for pre-1975 road and off-road motorcycles, including unregistered and club-registered bikes.
The rally starts and finishes at 1688 Goodwood Road, Capel River and the course includes a combination of three different optional routes (one of 30km and two of 10km each) through the Capel-Jarrahwood state forest. The routes are all fully signed — follow the arrows through the forest at your own pace and you can ride them in any order and as many times as you want.
All of the routes are run entirely on gazetted, maintained unsealed roads. The 2023 Rally attracted a mix of road and off-road bikes as old as 1926 and as young as 1974 and is definitely suitable for older/historic bikes, even with road tyres, with no sand tracks or “bush bashing” involved, and you definitely don’t need to be a ‘gun’ off-road rider!
For more details and an entry form, visit https://ihc.wildapricot.org/event-5561476
