The Mount Glorious Monster.

[Burnout]

Some say the Monster turned up at around the same time as the CBR 750, others say it was later around the time the Suzie 1300 Katana hit the road.

In any event the Monster, known to some as 'Glory', has been taking people with some regularity. He mostly works the western fall where there are some really good switch backs, esses and some evil 9% grades....... They said he came out under the the guard rails and took them, some said he waited in the trees just the other side of the guard rails and took them as they slid underneath. This theory went to hell when they put up a guard rail
under the other one to stop the Monster taking people.



They tried their best I suppose, reduced the speed limit, they had the Traffic lads on bikes up there time after time; it didn't stop 'Glory', he kept on taking them, any time, the dark did not stop him nor the western sun.

I was driving up Mount Glorious today to visit some relatives on the other side; as I swept round the left hander the picnic ground came into view. I knew the Monster had been out this morning.... There in the picnic ground was the EMQ chopper, its main set winding down, a couple of Ambulances, the Fire Brigade and all the attendants.
A kilometer or so further on, just over the creek at the bottom of the Mountain was all the evidence of the Monster's handiwork, a couple of stopped vehicles, a cop car and there just ahead the sharp right hander, the bike on it's side, the stark sandstone wall.....
As I eased passed, there at the bike where all the usual signs of the Monster's work; the scuff marks in the gravel, the twisted parts of the bike up against the wall, all ol' Glory's work again....



As I wound up towards the top another ambulance came down the 9%er, one of two on the way down from the top. I started thinking about all the times over 15 years I'd been there, mostly just after the Monster came out of the Mountain to take another.......He rarely wounded those he took, maimed many he did......killed many more.

As I sat on a Samford verandah and hour later I heard the EMQ chopper lifting up from the western side of the Mountain, The Monster, 'Glory', had taken another...

So for those of you who ride the Glory Road, searching for power and thrills,
take care on the guard rails, there's a Monster lurking there..........He'll take you; if he can............