Muggaccinos Pedlars Sunday Cyclists - The Bullsheet

This Sunday, 7:15am 18 Nov, Hornsby to Yarramalong Manor for lunch and onto Wyong - "Iron Horse” home - 93km
q      Ride Leaders:
*    Phil Johnston  9312.3319
*    Brian Willis  9807.6439

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Snapshot:
With no track work on the Wyong line, park at Hornsby station car-park [80 metres north of Railway Hotel in Jersey St - N/W side of Hornsby train station] by 7:05am to rollout by 7:15am to cycle a delightful, fun-filled 93km, with only 1 hill, and Nosh Stops at Mt White, Peats Ridge and Yarramalong Manor, to catch a train home from Wyong at 12:55pm - returns to Hornsby at 2:06pm.  We head due north up the old Pacific H’way, so if you're slow, start from 7:05am.

Detailed:

Our 1st Nosh Stop (25 mins) after 36kms at Mt White Village Store from 8am.

Cycling N from the Bikie Hangout before 8:30am, we take a 2nd Nosh Stop (15 mins) at Midcoast Petroleum, Peats Ridge from 9:30am after a steady, continuous, gradual climb. 

After re-mounting at 9:45am, around 10:25am we descend Bumble Hill for our 3rd Nosh Stop (55 mins) for brunch from 10:45am at delightful, serene, stately Yarramalong Manor. 

At 11:40am we commence a 20km flat/fast hit-out into Wyong, arriving by 12:30pm to catch ($6.40 fare) –

v              12:37 Express (or 1:37pm) - ETR Hornsby 1:36pm (or 2:36pm); or 

v              12:55pm (or 1:55pm) all-stops - ETR Hornsby 2:06pm (or 3:06pm).

Bank Teller’s rap-up of Brunch at Bayview – 82km
A lean team of six rolled out of St Ives at 7:15am.  After flying thru Duffys Forest, we arrived at West Head at 9am.  The silver-tail  Ferrari Car Club didn’t win an accolades from us, as a few of the 20 or so sleek red, black or silver Ferraris, which passed us as we approached the headland, weren’t fussy about giving us a metre when they throttled past.

After sighting Ian and Elfi just past Church Point, we settled in for brunch at Bayview Marina on schedule at 10:20am with 62km completed.  A check of the computers showed Whippet and Yamaha headed the averages with 25.5 km p/h.  The Navigator wasn’t far off that pace, with ToothFairy, Widget and Bank Teller all above 22.5km.

With no one champing at the bit to include the Akuna Bay adjunct on the return leg, we took the 22km direct route back to St Ives for more drugs ‘n grits at Pattisons Patisserie.

Sunday, 7:15am 25 Nov, Mt White, Peats Ridge Somersby "Bellbirds"
125km from W side Hornsby station or 96km from Cowan station

Sunday, 7:15am 2 Dec, Tour de Windsor, Sackville, Galston
Turramurra stn N/E side 7am. Via M2, Riverstone, Windsor, Sackville, Windsor, Glenorie, Galston - 137km - ETR 2:45pm.
Or start from Dural at 7:30am  -104km - ETR 1:40pm.

The Scribe ‘n The Whippet    13 Nov 2001