Muggaccinos Cyclists The Bullsheet

Sunday, from 7:30am, 17 Nov, 50km "Cycle Sydney" from St. Leonards Park North Sydney to Parramatta Park

Note entry on the day is $40, but the ride over the Harbour Bridge on the road surface on a pristine Spring morn' is exhilarating.

Scribe 's rap-up of Sunday, 10 Nov, an abridged "St Ives to Warriewood" - 67km

Furnace temps, during a record dry Spring, didn't deter heaps of pedalers rolling out of St Ives at 7:15am pursuing their weekly hilly hit-out, incl tyro Gracinda and Chris.  Although, as it turned out there weren't too many hills, but no shortage of speed.  With Andy, Pocket Rocket, Marcel aka Credit Agricole, Whippet, Publican, Nurse Kiwi and Navigator present, the pace was "going to be on".  After 6.7km we collected Tornado at The Fruit Barn.  Upon completing the customary 14km out/back to "The Home of Skippy", the crew Sag Stopped under a shady tree outside the Thai Restaurant at 8:20am, whereupon another Muggs' GreenHorn, Katrina, joined the Peloton.

A surge of hubris evidenced everyone going Gung-ho and GangBusters on the 2km descent to McCarrs Creek Bridge, but in the oppressing heat the other-side slowed some of us up.  No one was fazed when our planned 24km (round-trip) sortie to West Head was jettisoned after being confronted by barricades signaling closure due to the total fire ban.

After a seamless Sag Stop at Cabbage Tree Rd, we arrived at The Nautilus Café Warriewood much earlier than scheduled, where the below pic was snapped.  No matter how much water we drank, it wasn't enough.  Man was it hot 'n stuffy inside that café.  But what we'd been doing may have contributed.

Post Nosh, our 3km "coastal breeze" scamper down the coastline from Warriewood was all too short.  Whereupon there were no PBs on the 9.9km slog up Wakehurst P'way where we said our tar tahs to Tornado.  Nor any records broken along the 5.5km trek Nth up Forest Way.  But as is the want, after the customary fleeting Sag Stop at the cnr of Forest Way and Mona Vale Rd, the pace was on BigTime over the final 6.7km leg W along Mona Vale Rd.  Marcel, Andy, Pocket Rocket, Whippet 'n Navigator all hammered.  Tom, Nurse Kiwi, Colin and Gracinda also put in. ToothFairy and Bank Teller were content to be the sweep, or be swept by a RedNeck turkey in a black Monaro who took exception that were riding two-abreast, side-by-side, in the curb lane of a three lane road and weren't doing the traffic speed of 80kph!

Either side of a 6" x 6" green pole are several tuckered Muggs at familiar Pattisons Patisserie post ride, with no one lamenting having missed the panoramic view from West Hd.

NB:    Publican who'd inexplicably gone AWOL somewhere between McCarrs Creek and Warriewood greeted us at St Ives.  Still unsure why Tony never made it to Warriewood.

The Scribe  - 11 November 2002