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Muggaccinos Pedlars Sunday Cyclists - The
Bullsheet This Sunday, 25 Feb, "Quatre Montagnes” + Glenorie - clockwise route Ride Leader is Phil J 9498.3684
hm or 9312.3319 wk Prior to the ride commencing, Ride Leader will hand out on A4 - A. map of route; andB. ride times/distances spreadsheet. Synopsis of Ride: ¨ 82km from Turra' Stn N/E side off Rohini St. ETD 6:55am - ETR 11:40am; or ¨ 52km from Hornsby Stn n/west side, 100m nth of Railway Hotel in Jersey St. ETD 7:40am. ETR 11:05am. Nosh Stop: Both below ride start points to arrive at Green Shades Café Galston [9653.1500ph] (10% surcharge) around 8:30am, then ride Glenorie loop returning along Wylds Rd. then on to Berowra Waters back to Old Pac H'way to Hornsby or Turra’. Detailed Ride Description: ¨
Longer Ride - Quatre
Montagnes [82kms] ¨
Shorter Rides - Two Hills
[52kms] The
route is now common for both, descending to Galston Gorge, then climbing for
3kms to Crosslands Rd veer left to Galston, taking left turn immediately prior
to roundabout into Green Shades Café for 30 min. repast Around
9am, we commence a variation of a new 6km adjunct North/West into Glenorie which
provides two testing climbs: ¨
Left heading West along
Galston Rd for 800m ¨
Right heading North along
Johnson Ave for 100m ¨
Left heading N/W along
Sallaway Rd for 800m ¨
Right heading West along Mid-Dural
Rd for 400m ¨
Right heading North along Old
Northern Rd for 1.9km ¨
Right heading East along Wylds
Rd for 1.8km Thence
we pedal North along Arcadia Rd which changes to Bay Rd, at pastoral Berrilee,
where we shortly descend to picturesque Berowra Waters for the ride on the punt.
After another enjoyable climb, we take a 2nd 5 min Sag
Stop at the Health Food store before re-entering the Old Pacific H'way
from Berowra Waters Rd. to cycle South - ¨
either entering Bobbin Head; ¨
or continuing onto Hornsby. Scribe’s
rap-up of 18 Feb - “Tour de Windsor / Sackville -
Iron Horse from East Richmond to Marayong With 48.7km on the dial and after 2 hrs pedaling, a veritable handful of crew [Eric, Blonde Bombshell, Dieter, Bill N, and PJ] gathered smack on schedule at 9am on a warm, partially o’cast morn for a pleasant repast at Kate’s Place Windsor. [Around 6:20am Widget’s Volvo started making all sorts of “crunch/clonk/kaput” noises, barely 100m from home, which ended her ride - Who’d buy a Volvo?]. Bacon
‘n eggs
under the shade on the front verandah proved popular.
Following which Bill had to skip our awaiting northern excursion to rural
Wilberforce, Ebenezer and Sackville, and bade us farewell around 9:30am - opting
to retrace his steps on two wheels, ‘cause the train only runs once an hour,
and wouldn’t you know it. The
rest of us headed N/W over the Old Windsor
Bridge on our 41.4km anti-clockwise second leg into Duelling
Banjos, Deliverance Country. The
opportunity to visit within Lower Portland, with the windy, curly Hawkesbury
River fleetingly on our right, proved a pleasant attraction. PJ did labour the point to all present that after
returning thru Windsor, “we aren’t cycling all the way to Richmond, rather
picking up the Old Rattler at East
Richmond station” - ‘cause the swill ‘n grits
served at Richmond Golf Club, leave the mediocre selection of shops at Richmond
for dead, and why cycle due West, only to catch a train back due East.
All acknowledged they new the turn-off to East Richmond, but none of
‘em took it. Around 1pm Eric and PJ waved tah-tars to Dieter/Helga at the Pennant Hills off-road [from M2] and continued on to the “phone tower” exit - 100m short of a big
blue “Macq Uni exit sign”. Alas,
after successfully negotiating a leafy, mulch covered Browns
Water Hole cycle path, that dreaded/frightful vertical climb up the last
section of Kissing Point Rd. was still to come. We made it without walking, however, both of us resorted to
our lowest gear and could be confused for two stationary cyclists. Footnote - Eric clocked 126km at 24.5kms, returning
to ‘Turra at 1:50pm.. Those numbers
are an ominous warning to his old foes.
Cause since his boss formed the Biesdorf Cycle
Racing Team [buying ‘em all smickers
Avanti bikes]
and since Eric commenced “before work” sprint-training on the M2 with
colleagues half his age, Papa Bear, with
7 Audax scalps to his credit, has
become a driven, focused, single-minded competitor who can’t be taken lightly
- seemingly intent on leaving his mark on racing, in a similar fashion to his
KOM accreditations at Bright. Muggs
pilgrimage to conquer Linger & Die
Hill in Upper Hunter – less than 4 weeks - Friday, 16 to Sunday 18 March The
Flash, Pacific Pete, ToothFairy,
Widget, Whippet, The Scribe, The
Enforcer have indicated >50% interest in the 3 day ride. If you want digs,
please e-mail PJ pronto with your
preference. Following
Sunday, 4 Mar, Castle Hill Rotary Club 6th annual "Tour de Hills Cycle Classic” from Dural Country Club – 105kms Park in Dural C.C. car-park - 662a Old Northern Rd, Dural by 7:40am to rollout at 8am on anti-clockwise loop passing Glenorie, Cattai, Pitt Town, Oakville, Rouse Hill, Kellyville, Glenhaven, Round Corner, Annangrove and Kenthurst. If you enter by 1 March entry is $28 or $33 on the day - includes lunch. (Proceeds to St Gabriele's School for Hearing-Impaired Kids) - entries will be available on Sun 25 Feb. Following
weekend, 10/11 Mar, Loop the Lake
w'end – 85kms Item 6 of Bullsheet 2 Jan reported that bi-mthly Push On Mag for Mar/Apr: “Date: Sat.
9 March and Sunday 10 March – Loop the
Lake weekend Rides: Sat.
60kms from Fassifern at 1pm. Sun.
85kms Loop the Lake from Speers Point
8am Grade: H
Group: Bike North. Contact: Phil Johnston 9312.3319 (W) for B & Bs, restaurant
for Sat evening and w’end itinerary - Muggaccinos will ride with the locals on Sat arvo, dine with ‘em
that evening and Loop the Lake on
Sunday morn.” I’ve got details of B & Bs
etc. near the Speers Point
start. Hence,
notify Widget or Scribe,
if you'd like to join us for a w'end on the upper Central Coast by driving from
Sydney around 10am on Sat 16 March to - (a)
cycle 60km on Sat arvo (b)
wine/dine with a few Lake Macq cyclists on Sat evening and (c) Loop the Lake on Sunday. What Market Intelligence via e-mail can come up with - A cyclist on the other side of the globe ain't that much different to Muggs! The Scribe engages in mkt intelligence on cycle groups in the USA to compare how they write their weekly newssheets. One of PJ's e-mails attracted a response from a colourful, mature lady (been a resident of terra firma longer than any Mugg past or present), Elinor D. from Scottsdale Az USA - hottest city outside the Arab States. Eli’s e-mail address is ejcatclaw@uswest.net is indicative of her laugh at adversity persona, 'cause Elinor has had her share of downs - having lost 2 husbands who've gone to the great white cloud - the latter was also a devil-may-care cyclist. She also got seriously “mugged” once – the way they do it in the States, “bashed over the head and left for dead”. Still in full time employment with the US equivalent of the RTA, "where cyclists get considered in road planning." If you find a few mins to access www.muggaccinos.com, and a clunk on the 2nd last hotlink "Guest Page - EJ CatClaw", I don’t think you’ll be disappointed to read [from extracts from her e-mails to PJ] how a delightful old stick relies on cycling her Bent [short for recumbent]. A move to Sydney, would render Widget and The Scribe redundant. The Scribe - 20 Feb 2001 |
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