Muggaccinos Pedlars Sunday Cyclists - The Bullsheet

  1. This Sunday, 17 Sept, 7:30am Olympics early start/short ride Quatre Montagnes [76kms] or Two Hills Ride [46kms] clockwise to Green Shades Nursery Café the Berowra punt

THE RAINMAN is Sig [‘phone 0407 914 224]. Both below ride start points to arrive at Green Shades Nursery, Galston by 9am.

  • Longer Ride - Four Hills [76kms]
    Arrive Turramurra car park [    North/East side of station] by 7:20am for a 7:30am departure cycling in/out of Bobbin Head, arriving at Kalkari Reserve breather-stop after 14kms around 8:40am. Heading for Galston Gorge, via Hornsby Heights, we take a left [at the stop sign corner] around Asquith Golf Course into Belmont Pde. [becomes Royston Rd], avoiding 2kms of bumps over concrete expansion joints. We join Pac. Highway after crossing over railway line at Asquith train station where we continue south and shortly take a right into Galston Rd and pedal twds Hornsby Heights.
  • Shorter Rides - Two Hills [46kms]
    Arrive at Hornsby car-park [    100 metres Nth/West of the Railway Hotel in Jersey St] by 8:05m for a 8:15am roll out cycling north up Jersey St, with a left after 500 metres, followed by a right 60 metres later [at traffic lights] on to Old Pacific Highway for about 1km where you turn left at lights at Galston Rd twds Hornsby Heights.

A few clicks later we descend to Galston Gorge and climb 3½kms back out. Our only caffeine fix/grub load, with two of the four climbs completed and 32kms done [from Turra’] is at Green Shades Nursery Café at Galston [9653.1500ph] from 9am – the restaurant management is comfortable with us leaving our bikes outside the rest rooms and inside the green metal doors.

Around 9:30am, we pedal north to Arcadia, then onto pastoral Berrilee, descending to picturesque Berowra Waters for the ride on the punt. After another enjoyable climb, we throw a right from Berowra Waters Rd. onto Pacific H'way cycling south twds Hornsby before hooking a left back into Bobbin Head. ETA back at Turra is 11:30am and 11am back to Hornsby.

      2. PJ's rap-up of Sunday, 10 Sept, "Breakfast at Bayview Marina" - 93kms

It is late, so this will be short. Weather fine track good. No one injured. Duffys Forest was a welcome early adjunct. After a pleasant repast [bacon 'n egg rolls] at the delightful marina setting at Bayview, Sig and PJ were the only two to complete the full 93kms (Enormous Eric meandered along for the last part), with Mark A, Rabbit Warren, and Peter T circumventing the final leg into Akuna Bay, 'cause the company was as boring as batshit. No poems this week 'cause Brenda turned in a no-show, but was considerate enough to phone thru an apology a few minutes prior to roll-out.

The Scribe 11 Sept 2000 johnstph@cba.com.au