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Yamaha’s Aaron Gobert and longtime girlfriend Melanie Riley are engaged to be married.

The wedding is planned for October 6, 2004 in a beachside church on Hamilton Island in the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Queensland, Australia.

Mother-in-law-to-be Sue Gobert reports that she is “thrilled to have Mel officially in the family – we love her to death.”

Aaron Gobert is currently in Australia but is expected to return to his race season home in Canyon Lake, California next week.