Muggaccinos Pedlars Sunday Cyclists The Bullsheet

Sunday, 23 June, Somersby "Bellbirds" Peats Ridge anti-clockwise:
*  7:50am Hornsby 125km - ETR Hornsby 3:20pm
*  8:20am Berowra 103km - ETR Berowra 2:55pm

Or turnaround at Mt White for a 71km round trip from Hornsby

Ride contacts:
*   Phil Johnston  9498.3684 hm
*   Brian Willis     9807.6439 hm

Hardcopy these directions and bring on Sunday

Most are starting at Berowra - take 2nd off-road from Freeway

Let Brian or Phil know if you are commencing from Hornsby

Ride in single file on single lane roads, 'cause a RedNeck might clip ya!

1st Leg: Hornsby to Mt White Bikie Hangout - 35.5km

Park in Jersey St Hornsby street-side car-park 80m Nth of Railway Hotel - N/W side of Hornsby station. 

Rollout BY 7.50am, -

  • N up Jersey St  for 200m,

  • L for 20m to traffic lights;

  • R onto Old Pacific Highway for 35.2km, meeting the Berowra contingent opposite Berowra station at 8:20am, for 1st Nosh Stop (from 9:20am for 30 min) at Mt White Village Store.

 

2nd Leg: Mt White to Somersby General Store - 24.5km

9:50am -

  • Nth up Old Pacific H'way to Calga Interchange for 6.2km

  • R twds Gosford along the "Scenic Route" for 4.3km to Mooney Mooney Creek

  • Ahead 6.5km to "Wisemans Ferry / Gosford Roundabout"

  • L into Wisemans Ferry Rd for 7.5km to Somersby General Store (4372.1269ph) for a 2nd Nosh Stop (from 11:05am for 30 min) - great burgers.

 

3rd Leg: Somersby General Store to Peats Ridge - 9.5km

 

11:40pm -

 

  • L along Wisemans Ferry Rd for 200m

  • L down "on-ramp" along Peats Ridge Rd for 9.3km to MidCoast Petroleum for Sag Stop [from 12:10am for 10 min].

 

4th Leg: Peats Ridge to Mt White - 20.6km

12:20pm -

  • Sth down Peats Ridge Rd for 14.5km to Calga Interchange

  • L (at "Scenic Road" sign to Brooklyn) and continue 6.1km returning to Mt White Village Store for Sag Stop [from 1:15pm for 10 min].

 

5th Leg: Mt White to Pie in the Sky - 16.1km

1.25pm descend Old Pacific H'way crossing Brooklyn Bridge over Hawkesbury River and passing Brooklyn Rd [103km] taking our 3rd Nosh Stop at Pie in the Sky [from 2pm for 35 min].

 

6th Leg: Pie in the Sky to Hornsby - 19.3km

2:35pm Sth down Old Pacific H'way -

  • passing Berowra [115.5km] around 2:55pm, and

  • returning to Hornsby [125.5km] at 3:20pm.

 

The Scribe's rap-up of Sunday, 16 June, Yarramalong Manor Iron Horse - 92km

 

8 crew rolled Nth from Hornsby on an unseasonably warm Winter's morn' and mustered at the Bikie Hangout at Mt White Village Store from 9:40am after 35.5km amidst glorious sunshine.  Alas, our snippet of Summer twasn't to last.  A FreshMan on our ride was Sergey, aka Sputnik, from Russia who's only been in Oz for 5 weeks.  Sputnik has an I.T. contract, so he qualifies as a "Contractor", not to be confused with the long list of "Consultants" who've ridden with Muggs.  With everyone in a "Service Industry", who builds the Widgets (wooden ducks) these days?  It certainly isn't Simmo, or Dalsto!  'cause they're Consultants who earn their bucks flogging "Solutions" to companies that didn't know they had a problem, until they listened to a Consultant.  Bring on more Bank Tellers!

L to R - Whippet, Publican, ToothFairy, Bank Teller, Sputnik, Bazza, Malvern Star 'n Navigator - With everyone else able to workout where the dickey bird was, you could be confused for thinkin' that Bazza was preying to the sun gods!  Publican is the shy dude 2nd from the L, peekin'-out from behind Whippet.

Another pic from a sunny, balmy Mt White, with a couple of bikes thrown in, 'cause you rarely see 'em in a Mugg shot!

 

Approaching Calga Interchange, Publican was heard to mutter, "Me conjures that we are about to get dumped on!"  Sacre bleu!  What's that big black thing over to the left a howling twds us?  And what happened to the delightful, morn' which we were all so chuffed about only 20 mins earlier?  A morn' that had been the bees knees, pure cycling bliss, after the recent spat of below ave temperatures.

 

21.5km from The Bikie Hangout, we rolled into the MidCoast Petroleum Peats Ridge from 11.10am [56.7km] after a transformation in the weather from barmy blue to o'cast, 'n sleety.  But fortunately still dryish!

 

Around midday on the outskirts of Kulnura, we hooked the familiar R due E into Springs Rd and picked-up a tail wind.  And at 12:25pm after 73.7km, the final 3.5km over a corrugated Bumble Hill decent, we arrived at The Manor 4356.1066ph for lunch.  Consigned to the front entrance table setting, fortunately we were blessed with patches of sunshine.  The menu was right up our alley, with pasta, cheese-spreads and Beef Stroganoff proving popular.  And the Segafredo-Zanetti hit the spot.

 

Not unsurprisingly, with omnipresent dark clouds a hovering, and sorties of squally/gusty winds, it was a Helter Skelter scramble over the final 19km to Wyong where we climbed aboard the 2:45pm Express Iron Horse after a 92km potpourri, up hill and down dale, of Summer 'n Winter cycling.

 

Just as the Old Rattler was approaching the Hawkesbury Bridge, Scribe threw down the gauntlet to Publican by suggesting that we alight at Brooklyn and cycle the 19km back to Hornsby.  Tony declined to take-up the cudgel, proffering, "Yeah! I'd be in it, but there isn't time."  Sure it was darkish.  But it was only 3:20pm.

The Scribe 'n The Whippet  - 18 June 2002