Muggaccinos Pedlars Sunday Cyclists - The Bullsheet

Sunday, 23 Dec, 6:45am - St Ives for "Café Brunch at Warriewood" - 54km to 96km - ETR 12:35pm

Ride contacts:
*   Phil Johnston  9312.3319 wk and w'end.
*   Brian Willis     9807.6439 hm

Hardcopy these directions and bring on Sunday

Snapshot of standard 100km ride:
 Rollout St Ives 6:45am Terrey Hills, Duffy’s Forest, West Head 
(1st Nosh Stop – pack nibbles), Church Point, Warriewood 
(2nd Nosh Stop Nautilus Café) - ETR St Ives 12:35pm.
*     Reduced to 54km by skipping Terrey Hills and West Head and cycling
      27km from St Ives to Warriewood.
*     Increased to 112km by including Akuna Bay 3rd Nosh Stop. ETR 2pm

Detailed ride spec:
Park at St Ives council car park in Mona Vale Rd [opposite Paterson’s Patisserie and Stanley St] by 6:35am for 6:45am rollout cycling E along Mona Vale Rd [slower cyclists start from 6:40am].

After 6.4km [opposite Forest Way - at Mona Vale Fruit Barn] we L at junction of Mona Vale Rd and Forest Way - Terrey Hills Fruit Barn on RHS) into Myoora Rd and take a fleeting 1st Sag Stop (2 min) to re-group.

Cycle about 3kms down/up, down/up Myoor Larool Rd.  About 70m before Terrey Hills neighbourhood shopping centre we L into Tepko Rd and a further 300m L into Booralie Rd, then pedal like "shit out of Shanghai" 6km flat/fast stretch past Terrey Hills Golf Course and rifle range to Duffys Forest where we U-turn at the dead-end of Cow Corner and return via same route and pull up about 30m short of Terrey Hills shopping centre for a 2nd Sag Stop (3 min).  We enter Ku’ring’gai Chase National Park (around 7:45am) via Dandenong Rd (just before shops) and Beltana Ave and descend McCarrs Creek Rd / West Head Rd. 

At the V (dual entrances to the park) take anti-clock route [right fork] and descend hooking a L at McCarrs Creek bridge.  After cycling 2km uphill we pause around 8:10am for a 3rd Sag Stop (3 min) at the "T" juncture (Akuna Bay Marina is 4km on LHS and West Hd Rd extends 12km straight ahead to the headland).

We then commence 33 minute pedal to West Head arriving at 8:40am.  Pack lots of nibbles, ‘cause we take our 1st Nosh Stop (20 min) at the headland for a snack and a gawk at the majestic, shimmering peninsula - Pittwater/Lion Island stuff.  Around 9am we return, and descend to McCarrs Creek bridge at 9:35am [55km]. 

We then make a sharp L into McCarrs Creek Rd continuing on past Church Point [60km] at 9:50am, thence past Bayview Marina [62km].  A few km later we R into Cabbage Tree Rd (Bayview Golf Course will be on both L and R) which leads into Samuel St.  About 10 min later we halt at end of Samuel St adjacent to the cemetery for the 4th Sag Stop (3 min) before crossing Mona Vale Rd at the roundabout around 10:10am. 

Road changes to Ponderosa Pde for about 500m and then McPherson St. for about 1.5km, where we then take R into Warriewood Rd shortly thereafter crossing Pittwater Rd at traffic lights and immediately climbing up Hunter St [dog-leg left, then right] which shortly leads to views of the Blue Pacific overlooking majestic Warriewood Beach [around 10:30am - 71 km] for 2nd Nosh Stop (35 min).  A neighbourhood, strip-front shopping centre is immediately on our right in Narrabeen Park Pde.  Nautilus Café is about 4 shops along.  Alternatively, Sunrise Milk Bar on the Cnr. makes good burgers.

If the weather is fine, we’ll take in the ambience and indulge in friendly repartee over brunch for up to 35 min, carbo/protein loading for the 29km return leg at 1pm, ‘via Bayview, Church Point and McCarrs Creek where at midday we re-group at 5th Sag Stop (5 min) at “V” juncture (top of McCarrs Creek climb) after 88km at 12:05pm.  ETR St Ives is 12:35pm – 96km.

Akuna Bay option
After 86.8km at 11:55am, anyone interested may turn R back into the park and cycle anti-clockwise to Akuna Bay Café for a 3rd Nosh Stop (20 min) after 92.3km at 12:20pm.  At 12:40pm they would cycle 2.2km to Illawong Bay, up the awkward Akuna Bay climb past Cottage Point turn off [96.3km - 1pm] and halting for the 5th Sag Stop at the "V" juncture of dual park entrances [100.6km - 1:25pm].  Those Suckers would return to St. Ives at 2pm - 112km “in toto” for a much req'd coffee at Paterson’s Patisserie.

 

Bank Teller's rap-up of "A hard, hilly hundred" Sunday, 16 Dec

Counting the cameraman, a dozen crew gathered on another o’cast, coolish morn’ at GreenShades Nursery Galston a tad after 8 o’clock – Caroline, ToothFairy, Widget, David aka Dynamo, The Publican, BackPacker, Bazza, The Scribe, Pacific, Whippet ‘n BigGears. 

 

Alas, Squaw Chores beckoned a quarter of the contingent.  Consequently, after a pleasant 40 min repaste amongst the lush greenery, where no one indulged in GreenShades’ famous omelettes, only nine crew continued N along Arcadia Rd twds Brooklyn, where after the familiar 3.9km climb from Brooklyn Rd, we re-gathered at PitS around 10:30am.

Scribe was delayed at GreenShades assisting Bazza change a flat, you guessed it, on his rear tyre.  Hence, as Scribe was descending to Brooklyn Rd, the rest of the gang were completing the 3.9km climb to the Pie Shop.  Dynamo was not unsurprisingly out in front, with Whippet ‘n BigGears not far a field.  All familiar stuff, seeing everyone, in particular two old heads, Papa Bear and Widget, slogging their hardest up the well-known gradient.  Still ‘twas “funny peculiar” pondering why hammering your hardest up an accustomed hill is so important.

With several of the crew continuing on to Hornsby, around 12:30pm the gang gathered at the turn-off to Bobbin Head – see pic of not a lot happen’.

At 1:30pm the Turra' starters returned to their jalopies with ave speeds for the 100km Cinque Montagnes from 23pm for BigGears, 22.4km for Ann and 22km for The Teller.

Sunday, 30 Dec, Tour de Bikie Hangout - Mt White return:

  • 6:45am from Turra’ - 100kms - ETR 12:45pm; or

  • 7:30am from Hornsby - 71kms - ETR midday

Scribe 'n Whippet   17 Dec 2001