http://mraact.org.au/2012/11/mra-32nd-annual-toy-run-2012

The ACT & Region Motorcyclists’ Toy Run supporting St John’s Care and the Salvation Army
 

Meet at Old Parliament House at 8:00am for coffee and egg and bacon rolls

Due to the large numbers of motorcyclists’ who provde their fantastic support to this event, and our numbers are ever growing, we sadly have outgrown Garema Place.

Welcome to our new ‘home’ Kings Park at the National Carillion!

Ride departs at 10:00am heading down Adelaide Ave back onto State Circle, across Kings Ave bridge and concluding at Kings Park at the National Carillion

Invite your family and friends to join us!

Bring games and toys for young people, non-perishable food and cash

Come dressed for the occasion! Decorate your bike! Prizes for the best dressed riders, pillions and decorated bikes, largest corporate group, and the largest club attendance.

Excellent! Locked in Eddie!!

My brother is a self published children's book author and illustrator. He has bunch of activity books and games etc for kids! Will bring a stack of them.

It's always a good event, I'll see you there, I'll be dressed as Santa on my Road King :-)

Noice!!

Hi all. Did anyone do a count today? Seemed like more bikes than last year from the roadside. I was out with 2 of my 3 girls on Adelaide Ave. What better place for some ex-pat South Aussies to sit?

It was great to have quite a few slow and give the girls high-5's. It's still disappointing to us that 1) More people don't line the route like they do in Adelaide for their Toy Run, and; 2) that it seems the event is marketed as one for motorcyclists, but not for the public so much.

I wonder if it's just an Adelaide thing (as that and the Canberra Toy Runs are the only ones I've been to/ridden in) that the motorcyclists/pillions carry lollies for the kids on the route. I'm not sure if it happened that the kids lined the route and then the participants started slowing (or stopping) and dropping lollies into the gutter for the kids to pick up, or if the lollies came first and the kids followed. Regardless, it's much more of a motorcade atmosphere in Adelaide with thousands lining the route. It would be great to see that develop here too.

Thanks for a good run through though. We had fun even if so many Canberrans missed out on the sight.