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Muggaccinos.com
The Bullsheet
Sunrise 6:05am
Hardcopy page 1 and bring with you
Good Friday, 8am, 29 March '13 -
SSW route "Tour de Nepean & Avon Dam" - Two Dams ride from
Birriwa Reserve
Mt. Annan
via Camden, Razorback Mountain, Picton, Tahmoor, Bargo, Avon Dam - return backroad to
Tahmoor, then along Remembrance Drive - 115km
Lots of farms, horses, cows, sheep,
goats, alpacas
and other critters.
But fortunately no
CRAZY BUCK with big horns - ETR 3:05pm
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WHO, WHEN, WHERE
Ride Organiser,
Phil aka Bank Teller 0434 715.861,
Andrew
aka TugBoat,
Eric
aka PapaBear,
George aka EnglishMan,
Jean aka ChiliDog
Anthony aka
Froggy,
David aka CricketTragic,
Mike aka The Diplomat,
Kevin
aka TexDubbo,
David aka MountainGoat, John
aka Auckland,
have committed to start
from
Birriwa Reserve
Mount Annan
for this annual Good Friday ride to the Avon Dam, with option to visit the slightly nearer Nepean Dam, that
Bank Teller and
TugBoat
reconnoitered 16 months ago.
APOLOGIES:
If ya
think you are 80% certain, e-mail
Scribe,
and he'll add ya to this list |
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Early on a Sunday morn' Campbelltown is
only 60 min drive from Gordon via Homebush Bay Drive. About 1km past big
Roselands sign on RHS turn right onto M5. Exit M5 at 2nd Campbelltown Rd. and keep to the right hand lane on the exit ramp. Follow
directions to Narellan heading NWW along Narellan Rd for 2½km. 400m after
passing Mount Annan Drive on LHS turn Left into the "ramp" to Waterworth Drive. 250m
later Left into Wellings Drive. 220m later Right into
Fitzpatrick Rd. 150m later Right into O'Brien Rd carpark in Birriwa Reserve.
1st
Leg:
Birriwa Reserve
Mount Annan carpark
to Subway Cafe Tahmoor - 35km - 95 min
8am
cycle via Narellan Rd, Camden Bypass and Remembrance Drive, thru Picton,
to the
Subway Cafe at Tahmoor for 1st Nosh Stop (30 min) from 9:35am.
2nd
Leg: Tahmoor to Nepean Dam and Avon Dam - 29km (agg 64km) - 85 min
10:05am S/E
on Remembrance Drive for 21km
for 1st Sag Stop (10 min)
at Nepean Dam 11:05am and then Avon Dam from 11:30am
3rd Leg: Avon Dam to
Picton
- 27km
(agg 91km) - 80 min
11:40am return via
Arina Rd and Rockford Rd to Tahmoor, thence Remembrance Drive to arrive Picton
at 1pm for 2nd Nosh Stop at
Simply Delicious Cafe, Argyle St. Picton (30 min).
4th Leg:
Picton
back to
Mount Annan - 35km
(agg 113km) - 95 min
1:30pm N/E on Remembrance Driveway scaling
Razorback Mtn for 24km
Ahead Old Hume Hwy for 2.1km
Ahead onto Camden Bypass for 8km
Ahead on Narellan Rd for 600m
Right onto Waterworth Drive for 120m to
Birriwa Reserve
Mount Annan at
3:05pm.
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Some memorable climbs - starting with the long haul
up Razorback, easy going then 'til the National Park, thence things get nasty in the
middle bit.
The return leg of about 18km from Avon Dam to Tahmoor, via Pheasants
Nest, with a slight downhill will be delightful.
Avon Dam, completed in 1927, is the third and the
largest of the four upper Nepean Dams to meet the needs of Sydney.
In 1963 it was diverted to meet the increasing needs of the Illawarra region
and today supplies all of Wollongong.
 
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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.
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Cycling
without Public Liability cover is as silly as driving without 3rd Party -
join Bike NSW for PL insurance, so that all Muggs are better protected
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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
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Cycling with
Muggs is predicated upon notifying
Bank Teller if you
materially disagree with any clause(s) in Muggaccinos'
"Ride Participants Liability Acknowledgment"
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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
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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
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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
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Pics from Hornsby, St Ives, Palm
Beach, Patonga, Woy Woy, Pits climb back to Hornsby - 13 cyclists -
86km
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Scribe
24 March 2013 |
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