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Sunday, 9 Feb, 7am from St Ives "Brekkie at Bayview Marina - Brunch at Akuna Bay"

  • Ride Leader:  Phil Johnston - 9498.3684 hm.

  • Hardcopy these directions and bring on Sunday.

  • If you are a slowcoach -
     *    leave from 6:50am and cycle     E along Mona Vale Rd; and
    *    move on from the Nosh Stops early!     

  • Cycle two abreast at own risk.  Keep well to LHS.

  • Get off the road at Sag Stops.

  • Cycling without Public Liability cover is as stupid as driving without 3rd Party - join Bicycle NSW for PL insurance, so that all Muggs are better protected.  Otherwise check your household insurance policy as it may provide you with 3rd party cover whilst cycling.

  • When passing a fellow Mugg, always provide a metre clearance.  If you can't, or are passing on the inside, call out loudly eg. "passing inside tight" etc.

 

Snapshot

St Ives car park Mona Vale Rd [opposite Pattisons Patisserie and Stanley St. junction] by 6:50am for 7am rollout.  If you are a slowcoach, leave from 6:50am and cycle E along Mona Vale Rd.  
Terrey Hills, Duffy's Forest, McCarrs Creek to West Head for 1st Nosh Stop (15 min).

Return to McCarrs Creek for Brekkie adjacent to the water’s edge at Bayview Marina Café [LHS two clicks past Church Point] for 2nd Nosh Stop (35 min) from 10:05am [61km].

Return straight to St Ives [84km - ETR 11:40pm]  Or via Akuna Bay 3rd Nosh Stop (30 min) [95.5km - ETR 1pm].

Sag Stops:
1.   Mona Vale Fruit Barn from 7:15am (3 min)
2.  Terrey Hills Thai Restaurant from 7:55am (3 min)

 

First Leg:  St Ives to Terrey Hills Thai Restaurant Sag Stop - 22.7km - 55 min

 

7am -

 

  • E along Mona Vale Rd for 6.7km,

  • L [opposite Forest Way - at Mona Vale Fruit Barn] into Myoora Rd and take a 1st Sag Stop (3 min) from 7:15am,

  • Ahead 3km along Myoor Larool Rd,

  • L into Tepko Rd (75m short of Booralie Rd) for 400m,

  • L into Booralie Rd, 'n pedal like "shit out of Shanghai" 6.7km flat/fast stretch past Terrey Hills Golf Course and rifle range to Duffys Forest (amidst real pigs, goats, horses 'n cows),

  • "U"- turn at the dead-end of Cow Corner – NOTE: turn around as soon as you see faster cyclists returning.  Continue past Terrey Hills neighbourhood shopping centre, thru roundabout and take 2nd Sag Stop (3 min) from 7:55am outside Thai Restaurant at top of McCarrs Creek Rd - muster on LHS of white road line under tree cover.

 

Second Leg:  Thai Restaurant to West Head - 18.6km (agg. 41.3km) - 55 min

 

8am -

  • Descend McCarrs Creek Rd and enter Ku’ring’gai Chase National Park 3.2km to "V" (dual entrances to the park),

  • R fork - anti clockwise and further descend McCarrs Creek Rd for 2km,

  • L at McCarrs Creek bridge for 1.4km to T juncture (Akuna Bay Marina is 2.8km downhill on LHS).

 

8.22am -

 

Ahead along West Head Rd for 12km to The Headland for 1st Nosh Stop (15 min) from 8:50am [41.3km] - pack nibbles, ‘cause we take a gawk at the majestic, shimmering peninsula - Pittwater/Lion Island.

 

Third Leg:  West Head to Bayview Marina - 21.5km (agg 62.8km) - 55 min

 

9:05am -

  • Retrace 13.4km to McCarrs Creek bridge,

  • hook a L into McCarrs Creek Rd at 9:35am [55km] for 7.4km passing Church Point arriving at Bayview Marina Café at 10am for 2nd Nosh Stop [61km] 9979.5782ph (35min).

 

Fourth Leg: Bayview Marina to Akuna Bay - 12.8km (agg 75.2km) - 55 min

 

Over Brunch we will ascertain who, at 10:35am, is  -

  • cycling 22km back up McCarrs Creek Rd and onto St Ives - ETR 11:40am [84km]; and

  • cycling 7.4km up McCarrs Creek, taking a R to loop Akuna Bay anti-clock, a further 4.5km for Brunch 3rd Nosh Stop (30 min) at Akuna Bay from 11:20am [75km].

 

Fifth Leg: Akuna Bay to St Ives - 19.4km (agg 95.5km) - 71 min

 

11:50am climb anti-clockwise from Akuna Bay to Terrey Hills and re-enter Mona Vale Rd via -

  • Myoor Larool Rd after passing the Mona Vale Fruit Barn, or 

  • the tunnel under Mona Vale Rd.  

 

Thence, it is a rapid-fire 6.6km stretch to St Ives [95.5km] - ETR 1pm.

 

Scribe’s rap-up of Sunday, 2 Feb, Tour de Windsor - from 73km to 139.2km

 

A tad after seven bells, 7 solitary souls [ToothFairy, Publican, Princess Caroline Dicky Knee, Bazza, BackPacker 'n Scribe] rolled out of Turra' on yet another dry morn' bound for the initial Nosh Stop of Galston Gorge.

 

A further contingent of 8 or so, incl Kiwi Mike, Nurse Karen, Marcel, Adam 'n Eve 'et al' commenced from Hornsby.  Gene, Andy 'n Katrina took the prudent call of driving to the other side of the chasm, before mounting-up.

 

 

 

 

These pics were snapped during a leisurely Nosh Stop under the awning in Macquarie St Windsor after 69.2km from Turra':  

  • The somber slobs are the ones who began at Turra'.

  • The cheerful crew are the ones who commenced from Hornsby.

  • The ecstatic entrants are the ones who started from Galston.

 

 

Around 3:40pm Dicky Knee, Teller 'n ToothFairy rolled back in to Turra' with 139.2km on the dial.  Dicky reckoned that it is worth the longish drive from his digs out West to attend Muggs' rides, 'cause "they don't wait for the slowest cyclist", and "I always know that he will get a good work-out."  Meanwhile, Ann and Phil were feeling less adrenaline-ized, and were happy to still be in a fit state to retreat to the respite of their jalopies, where the bony bicycle seat would be a distant memory.

 

A sub-directory within "Rides Directories" on this website is "Muggs' 19 Rides".   Section 3 lists three different Windsor rides:

 

    (i)     116km - Browns Waterhole, Marayong, M2, Riverstone, Vineyard, to Windsor, Sackville Loop, train from Clarandon station to Marayong station , then M2 home.

 

    (ii)     99km - Same route to Windsor, but skipping the 37km Sackville loop, but returning via Cattai Ridge Rd, then Galston with a short-cut down east side of rail-line to Turra'.

 

    (iii)    139km - Bobbin Hd, Galston Gorge, Pitt Town Rd, Windsor, Cattai Ridge Rd, Berowra Waters, Bobbin Hd.

 

Notwithstanding that the 1st one above finishes with a trudge up precipitous Kissing Point Rd when, after 115km, "the can is on empty", the 3rd above ride, being the one we did last Sunday, is definitely the toughest.  But the fleeting return to our rustic origins, namely to one of Sydney town's first settlements, via NW thru a suburbs/townships that "ain't altered a lot in yonks", renders it "all worthwhile".

 

 

Guess what!  Muggs' erstwhile cycling compatriot, Luighi, who owns a paint shop, and still pines to, once again, pedal-up all the famous Tour de France climbs, incl Alp du Huez, has been at it again, by giving his fading mural in Turra' car-park a polish.  We've tried to tell our crazy Italiano that the trend of painting roads ain't the go in Oz, but Luighi won't hear of it.  And who is going to argue with a passionate, red-blooded Mediterranean with a warehouse full of spray cans.

 

The Scribe   3 February '03