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Public Hol, Monday, 8 June '09 by 8:10am from St Ives for "Brunch at Warriewood" - return via Wakehurst Parkway - 94km - ETR 1:05pm

• Click on: Risk Management which warns of the dangers of cycling on public roads with motor cars, potholes and over bridges with vertical timber planks with gaps

• Ride Organiser:  Phil Johnston aka BankTeller  0434 715.861  9114.6689 VOIP will ride from Hornsby to St Ives with John aka BakerBoy

• Hardcopy these directions and bring on Sunday

• DON'T cycle 2 abreast on single lane roads with an unbroken centre line

• Get well off the road at Sag Stops.

• Road cycling may be dangerous with cyclists and 3rd parties getting killed or badly injured each year.  Membership of Bicycle NSW provides $20m Public Liability cover if you injure a fellow Mugg or motorist. 

Rollout from St Ives car park  for Terrey Hills, Duffy’s Forest, West Head (1st Nosh Stop – pack nibbles), Church Point, Warriewood (2nd Nosh Stop).  Return Wakehurst Parkway and Forest Way.

SagStop:

1.      Cnr Frenchs Forest Rd and Wakehurst Parkway     (5 min)
NoshStops:

1st:    West Head                                                             (15 min)

2nd:   Sunrise Cafe overlooking Warriewood Beach       (35 min)

1st Leg: St Ives to West Head, via Duffys Forest - 41km - 105 min
Depart St Ives car-park between 8:00am and 8:10am depending on your ride speed:

• E along Mona Vale Rd for 6.2km;

• L into Myoora Rd passing Forest Way - at Terrey Hills Vale Fruit Barn;

• 3km along Myoora Larool Rd until Tepko Rd which is 70m before Booralie Rd;

• L into Tepko Rd (70m short of Booralie Rd) for 400m;

• L into Booralie Rd and pedal like "shit out of Shanghai" 6.7km flat/fast stretch past Terrey Hills Golf Course and rifle range to Duffys Forest (amidst real pigs, goats, horses 'n cows);

• "U" turn at the dead-end of Cow Corner – slower cyclists must turn around as soon as they see lead cyclists returning to via same route Terrey Hills neighbourhood shops;

• Left into McCarrs Creek Rd immediately passing Terrey Hills Thai Restaurant and entering Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park for 3km to "V" (dual entrances to the park);

• R at the "V" anti-clockwise and descend to McCarrs Creek;

• L over small timber bridge for 1.8km to "T" juncture (Akuna Bay Marina is 2.8km on LHS);

• Ahead 12km along West Head Rd to West Head.

Pack lots of nibbles, ‘cause we take our Sag Stop (10 min) from 9:45am for a snack and a gawk at the majestic, shimmering blue peninsula and The Greenies blocked the proposed McChucks on the headland.

2nd Leg: West Head to Warriewood - 28km - 70 min

9:55am -

• Return 12km to "T" juncture with Akuna Bay,

• Ahead descending 1.8km to McCarrs Creek small timber bridge [55km],

• L into McCarrs Creek Rd for 8.8km past Church Point, Bayview Marina to Cabbage Tree Rd,

• R into Cabbage Tree Rd from 10:55am with Bayview Golf Course on LHS);

• Ahead for 1.5km leads into Samuel St and crosses Mona Vale Rd at roundabout,

• Ahead into Ponderosa Pde veering Right becoming McPherson St for 2km to Warriewood Rd

• R into Warriewood Rd 200m crossing Pittwater Rd at traffic lights and immediately climbing up Hunter St [dog-leg L, then R] which leads to views of Blue Pacific overlooking majestic Warriewood Beach [around 11:05am - 69km] for Nosh Stop (35 min) at the Sunrise Cafe.

A neighbourhood, strip-front shopping centre is immediately on RHS in Narrabeen Park Pde.  Nautilus Café is about 4 shops along.  Sunrise Cafe, on the corner makes grouse burgers.

ETR 1:05pm - 94km.

Bank Teller's rap-up of Tour de Windsor - 7 cyclists - 133km

Bad news is that it was really, really cold on the initial descent of Galston Gorge just prior to eight bells.  Good news is that whilst Rex took a nasty tumble cycling at about 20 km/h over one of the two timber bridges on Pitt Town Rd, fortunately apart from losing some bark off a knee and suffering a few bruises, Rex was able to cycle back via the arduous Sackville ferry route with the two chaps in the below pic. 

As set out in Risk Management, pursuant to the Civil Liability Acts 2002, in particular for NSW Division 5 Recreational Activities of Civil Liability Amendment (Personal Responsibility) Act 2002 No 92, Scribe is required to Provide A Risk Warning of Three Types Of Risks.  So please dismount at all timber bridges unless you are God Dam Sure the gaps between longitudinal planks are not wide enough to catch ya wheel, or the protruding bolts could not bring ya down, because cyclists have been killed or ended up a paraplegic from similar falls.  So Rex who was cycling at approx 20km/h got off real light.

George aka EnglishMan and Grant aka BeanCounter at Hornsby station start spot ETD +1min

The above snap descending Galston Gorge, with Pete aka CampyAficionado pulled up at Scribe's behest for a Happy Snap, belies how heavy the fog was, nor does it reveal how frightfully chilly, and about to get even more chilly, it was

PacificPete, Harry aka KayakMan and Christine aka Luddite (Hawkesbury Tri Club) at The Bridge Cafe, Windsor.
Harry met Christine a few years ago when she paddled a kayak.  Then Luddite got the triathlon bug, whereupon her kayak hasn't seen the water much lately.   Christine is a "gun runner" and aspiring cyclist.  However, openly acknowledges that she doesn't understand how to adjust deraileurs or the physics of gear ratios, but has undertaken to learn about them so as to avoid unnecessary trips to the bike shop to do ten second adjustments.