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Sunday, 4 Mar '12, Brunch at Pearl Beach - Old Rattler home from Woy Woy
Depending on your ride speed rollout -

*    by 7:30am from Hornsby carpark             -  86km    -   ETR  1:03pm or 1:33pm 

*    by 7:50am from Berowra                         -  75km    -   ETR  12:52pm

Or alight at Hawkesbury River station and cycle back adding 26km

Or cycle from Hornsby to Gnostic Marna Cafe, Woy Woy Cafe and return - 172km.

All cyclists should target arriving at Mt White Road Warriors Café 1st Sag Stop at 8:55am.  If you are slow, start earlier.  If your are fast, start by above final start times.

Nosh Stops:
 Mt White Road Warriors Café                                          9:00am     -   30 min

Kariong Shell garage                                                   10:25am     -   10 min
Fish Shop at Pearl Beach                                             11:25am     -   35 min


Sag Stops:   
1st:       Wiseman's Ferry/Gosford roundabout                   10:15am     -    5 min
2nd:      Kariong Shell garage                                       10:25am     -  10 min 
 

King of the Mountain climbs
 1st:       Cherro Rd to 2nd Mt White sign  KOM                  7.55km

2nd       100m past Mooney Mooney bridge to KOM           3.60km

WHO, WHERE, WHEN
 Ride Organiser: Phil aka BankTeller 0434 715.861, David aka MountainGoat, John aka Auckland, Kev aka TexDubbo, Pete aka CampyAficinado, David aka CricketTragic are starting from Hornsby at 7:30am.  John aka BakerBoy plans to ride from Woy Woy and meet us at Mt. White

If ya think you are 80% certain, e-mail Bank Teller, and he'll add ya to this list

1st Leg:  Hornsby to Mt White Road Warriors Café - 35km (85 min)

¨         Rollout 7:30am from Hornsby train station car park [70m N of the Railway Hotel in Jersey St – N/W side of train station] for 500m Nth then L and 20m later R at lights onto Pacific H'way; or

¨         commence by 7:55am (before the convoy) on Old Pacific H'way opposite Berowra train station carpark.

Continue N up Old Pacific H'way to 1st Nosh Stop from 8:55am (30 min) at Mt White Road Warriors Café.

 

Second Leg:  Mt White Village Store to Kariong Shell garage - 19.2km (55 min)


9:25am -

  • R Nth up Old Pac H'way for 6.2km to Calga Interchange around 10am; 

  • R East to Gosford “Scenic Route”, remaining on Old Pac H'way, to intermittent sounds of chirping Bellbirds, crossing Mooney Mooney creek 4.1km later;

  • climb 6.1km and take a 2nd Sag Stop (5 min) at the Wisemans Ferry/Gosford roundabout at Somersby Industrial Estate - keeping well to LHS; and

  • R Sth for 700m on Wisemans Ferry Rd, then L gradually ascending for 1.4km Old Pac H'way arriving at familiar Kariong Shell garage at 10:20am [55.3km] for Sag Stop (10 min).

 

Third Leg: Kariong to Pearl Beach - 18km (50 min)

10:30am -

  • Initially flattish S/Eth along Woy Woy Rd, thence down the hill past Phegans' Bay twds Umina Beach.  After approx 12.5km from the Shell Garage

  • R into Rawson Rd for 100m and cross train tracks at level crossing;

  • Ahead on Rawson Rd for 450m to Ocean Beach Rd;

  • R into Ocean Beach Rd for 3km;

  • R into Sydney Ave as it veers L for 100m;

  • R into Hobart Ave for 200m;  

  • L into Mt Ettalong Rd for about 3km;  

  • At the Sth. end of beautiful Umina Beach, Mt Ettalong Rd changes to Patonga Drive.  Climb past "Mt Ettalong Lookout" for a further 1km.

  • L into Pearl Beach Drive for 1.75km to unspoiled, but expensive Pearl Beach [heaps of Filthy Rich “near deads” and WOOFS (Well Off Older Folks) driving Bentleys 'n Mercs] for

    • 2nd Nosh Stop (30 min) from 11:20am [76km].

Fourth Leg: Pearl Beach to Woy Woy station - 9.9km (25 min) - arrive at station by 12:20pm for 12:23pm 'All Stops' or 12:57pm 'Express' hourly services:

 

11:50am -

  • L  into Pearl Beach Drive retracing our path out of Pearl Beach up a mother of a hill along (gorgeous view of Pearl Beach on RHS) for 1.75km;

  • R  back onto Patonga Drive/Mt Ettalong Rd for 3km;

  • R  into Hobart for 200m;

  • L  into Sydney Ave for 150m;

  • L  into Ocean Beach Rd for 3.5km; and

  • R  into Railway St for 500m to Woy Woy station:

ETR Hornsby 1:03pm or 1:33pm.  

Risk Warning
Some forms of cycling are dangerous.  An ave of 36 Australian cyclists have been killed annually since 2000.  95% of these fatalities occur on the road. 

Other cyclists in Australia break bones and incur nerve impairment from falling off their bikes in accidents. 

A cyclist could fall from his/her bike, inter alia, due to -
(i)      being hit by a car or another cyclist; or
(ii)     encountering a pothole;

(iii)    cycling too fast on a wet downhill where the coefficient of friction is much less, particularly at corners; or
(iv)    getting their bicycle wheel caught in a gap in a timber bridge.

A negligent cyclist could -

(a)    be litigated by a seriously injured cyclist, or 3rd party (ie. a woman pushing a pram on a footpath or a car driver) under common law where the damages could exceed $500,000; and

(b)    lose his/her home if he/she did not have public liability insurance which covers their negligence whilst on a push bike.

A negligent cyclist who did not have personal injury insurance (ie self-employed without income protection cover) could struggle to meet regular outgo commitments.

A seriously injured cyclist could be awarded damages which a negligent cyclist could not afford to pay if the negligent cyclist -
(I)     did not have public liability insurance cover; and/or
(II)    did not possess valuable assets.

Ř    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

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

Ř    Cycling with Muggs is predicated upon notifying Bank Teller if you materially disagree with any clause(s) in Muggaccinos' "Ride Participants Liability Acknowledgment"

Ø   Hardcopy these directions and bring on Sunday

Ø   Expend 5 min studying your street directory for this route, if you haven't ridden it before

Ø   Don't ride two abreast on single lane roads with an unbroken centre line and descend corners on wet roads as though you are skating on ice

Ø   When passing a fellow Mugg, always provide a metre clearance.  If you can't, or are passing on the inside, you MUST call out loudly eg. "passing inside" etc

 

Scribe's pics of the PapaBear's Hornsby, St Ives, Duffy's Forest back-road's route, Church Point, Narrabeen, Wakehurst Pky, Forest Way, St Ives, Hornsby - 101km - 14 crew

Pete aka CampyAficinado reckons he counted 13 crew at our 1st Nosh Stop at Church Point.  With Trev aka Tornado joining us later, that makes 14, I tink.

Most of us happily pulled up 2km into the 4km RollerCoaster from Hell at the 'Coal and Candle Creek' sign.  Tony aka Yorkshire, Kevin aka TexDubbo and David aka CricketTragic weren't to be thwarted and completed the full 'out/back'.

Our 1st Nosh Stop at Church Point on a humid, fortuitously o'cast, morn' after a lumpy sojourn thru the backroads of Duffy's Forest, thence Cottage Point and Akuna Bay.

Only average pics. But what should one expect for nothin'.  Photographers always welcomed muchly!!!  But the pay ain't flash.

Bank Teller   27 Feb '12