GAHOG Director’s Overnighter 2026

Two days on the Road King Special, riding through Kandanga to Kingaroy and returning via Cooyar.

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GAHOG chapter riders and motorcycles during the 2026 Director's Overnighter

622.0 kilometres on the GPS

2 days 3–4 October 2026

Kingaroy overnight destination

Road King Special

The weekend

Saturday to Kingaroy

Mav led the ride, with Boyney and Jas riding as TECs. We started at BP Larapinta before heading north through changing country and scenery. Saturday’s ride covered about 383.4 kilometres, taking us through Kandanga and on to Kingaroy.

Lunch was at the Kandanga Hotel before the afternoon leg to the Room Motel Kingaroy East. Once the bikes were parked, the chapter headed to the Kingaroy RSL for dinner.

Sunday via Cooyar

We left Kingaroy at 8:00 am on Sunday and rode another 238.6 kilometres via Cooyar, where we stopped at the hotel.

My GPS stopped recording near Fernvale, so the 622.0-kilometre total is what I captured across the weekend rather than the complete distance from my front door and back again.

A simple chapter weekend built around the ride, the route, the scenery and time with mates.

From the weekend

Two days with the chapter

The bikes, roads and stops from the run to Kingaroy and home via Cooyar.

Motorcycles parked at Dayboro during Saturday morning tea — The bikes at Dayboro for morning tea on Saturday.

View from a motorcycle on the road during the ride — On the road heading towards Kingaroy.

Country road and scenery from the motorcycle ride — Country roads and scenery along the way.

Morning tea in Esk with a lorikeet stopping by — Morning tea in Esk on Sunday, with a lorikeet stopping by to share my chocolate brownie.

The GAHOG brains trust working out the weekend head count — The brains trust tries to work out whether the head count is 51 or 52 people.

Motorcycles parked outside the Cooyar Hotel — The Sunday stop at the Cooyar Hotel.

GAHOG Ladies of Harley outside the Cooyar Hotel — LOH outside the Cooyar Hotel.

Shaneo and Amy during the Director's Overnighter — Good company across the two-day ride.

The weekend route

Kingaroy and back via Cooyar

These maps follow the roads we actually rode across the two days.

Interactive map of the weekend ride.

Saturday took us from Larapinta through Kandanga to Kingaroy. On Sunday we rode back through Cooyar and into the Brisbane Valley. My GPS stopped recording near Fernvale, so the Sunday map finishes there.