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Sunday, 26 Sept'04 7:15am from St Ives "Brekkie at Bayview Marina - Brunch at Akuna Bay" - 92km - ETR 12:55pm

	Ride Leader/Organiser:  Phil Johnston 9498.3684
	If you are a slowcoach - *    leave from 7:05am and cycle E along Mona Vale Rd; *    as soon as you see the lead group returning from Duffy's Forest turn around so as to arrive back at Thai Restaurant Sag Stop in sync with the lead group; and *    move on from Sag and Nosh Stops early!
	Cycle two abreast at own risk.  Keep well to LHS of the roadway.
	Get off the road at Sag Stops.
	Cycling without Public Liability cover is as silly as driving without 3rd Party - join Bicycle NSW for PL insurance, so that all Muggs are better protected.
	When passing a fellow Mugg, always provide a metre clearance.  If you can't, or are passing on the inside, call out loudly eg. "passing inside tight" etc.

7:15am -

	E along Mona Vale Rd for 6.7km,
	L [opposite Forest Way - at Mona Vale Fruit Barn] into Myoora Rd and take a 1st Sag Stop (3 min),
	Ahead 3km along Myoor Larool Rd,
	L into Tepko Rd (75m short of Booralie Rd) for 400m,
	L into Booralie Rd, 'n pedal like "shit out of Shanghai" 5.7km flat/fast stretch past Terrey Hills Golf Course and rifle range to Duffy's Forest (amidst real pigs, goats, horses 'n cows),
	"U"- turn at the dead-end of Cow Corner – NOTE: turn around as soon as you see faster cyclists returning.  Continue past Terrey Hills neighbourhood shopping centre, thru roundabout and take 2nd Sag Stop (5 min) from 8:12am outside Thai Restaurant at top of McCarrs Creek Rd - muster on LHS of white road line under tree cover.

Second Leg:  Thai Restaurant to West Head - 18.6km (agg. 41.3km) - 50 min

 

• Descend McCarrs Creek Rd and enter Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park 3.2km to "V" (dual entrances to the park),

• R fork - anti clockwise and further descend McCarrs Creek Rd for 2km,

• L at McCarrs Creek bridge for 1.4km to T juncture (Akuna Bay Marina is 2.8km downhill on LHS).

• Ahead along West Head Rd for 12km to The Headland for 1st Nosh Stop (15 min) from 9:03am [41.3km] - pack nibbles, ‘cause we take a gawk at the majestic, shimmering peninsula - Pittwater/Lion Island.

9.18am -

• Retrace 13.4km to McCarrs Creek bridge,

• hook a L into McCarrs Creek Rd at 9:52am [52.5km] for 7.5km passing Church Point arriving at Bayview Marina Kiosk at 10:10am for 2nd Nosh Stop [60km] 9979.5782ph (30min).

Fourth Leg: Bayview Marina to Akuna Bay  - 12.8km (agg 75.2km) - 45 min

Over Brunch we will ascertain who, at 11:45am, is  -

	cycling 21km back up McCarrs Creek Rd and onto St Ives - ETR 12:pm [83km]; and
	cycling 7.4km up McCarrs Creek, taking a R to loop Akuna Bay anti-clock, a further 4.5km for Brunch 3rd Nosh Stop (30 min) at Akuna Bay from 11:20am [73km].

• Myoor Larool Rd after passing the Mona Vale Fruit Barn, or 

• the tunnel under Mona Vale Rd.  

Thence, it is a rapid-fire 6.6km stretch to St Ives [92km] - ETR 12:55pm.  

Bank Teller's rap-up of Tour de Old Bathurst Rd, Springwood, Yarramundi, Richmond - 91km

Tornado, Yamaha 'n Heineken (Printer obscured, except for his left arm 'n knee) at the KOM of a killer 2.33km KOM Climb up Old Bathurst Rd where the peak gradient over the steepest 100m section is ?.??% (still to be determined by the number crunchers). 

Tornado creamed all of us with an amazing KOM time of  9:57.  Heineken finished with 11:45.  Printer's time was 13:42, with Bank Teller way back on 17:44.  All times have been posted in "Log your Climb times" to www.KOMpm.com

Above 'n below pics at Old Poste Office Café, Springwood amidst brill, balmy sunshine.

5 gay guys at Richmond.   Aren't they all happy chaps???

Above n below snaps taken at Richmond station after we'd completed the 42.1km twin-legs from Emu Plains station initially NWW to Springwood Nosh Stop, then NNE to Richmond, where we visited lands which were popular in the early 19th century.  But in many ways have stood still since then.

What is all the fuss in the above pic?  Well, Yamaha works with a dude named Sully!!!  And Yamaha had never realised that when his dutiful, diligent, hard-at-it work colleague, Sully, 'had his head down' seemingly engrossed in RTA stuff.   Little did Yamaha realise that Sully was head-long into marketing his Garden Centre business.

A good day had by all, and another marvellous 91km ride "out West" discovered.

Where else, can you leave the snotty, North Shore address of Turramurra at 7:20am on a sleepy Sunday morn', and less than 7 hrs later return, after having cycled to Blacktown, then up a ball-terror of a climb, Old Bathurst Rd, thru Blaxland, Springwood, Winmalee, Yarramundi 'n Richmond.  Whereupon we "trained it" back to Seven Hills station, returning to snobbish upper-middle-class suburbia, with your therapy valves re-charged from beaut ride way-out-West.

Scribe   12 Sept 04