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Bike North's 5th TOUR de COWRA this Easter
Easter Fri, 9 Apr to Monday 12 April
Background:
Over the last 8 years, Muggs has gone cycling en masse on most June, 'n a couple of Rocktober long w’ends – visiting Lower Hunter 3 times, Gloucester, Mudgee, Bundanoon 'n Cowra. All of those sorties out of the Big Smoke were NW in Wine Country, except Bundanoon which was SSW where 20 of us froze our buns off over the June long w'end in 1999.
Pacific Pete 2nd from LHS, Widget with dorky pink socks, 'n Bank Teller doing a squat in front
5 years ago we stayed at Thistle Hill Winery in Mudgee – 3½ hrs drive NWW of Sydney where the weather was balmy. In April '01 Muggs' pedaled to Dungog for our 1st '3 day' Linger ‘n Die. In Aug '02 Muggs visited Gloucester for Thunderbolts Way and in Nov '03 held the 3rd Linger ‘n Die to Patterson.
Cowra this Easter, if a 6 or more are interested:
On the last 4 Easter long w'ends, Keith 'n Fran, two Bike North stalwarts, have led a contingent of 20+ cyclists to Cowra - another wine region, SW of Mudgee, for 4 days of cycling 'n revelry. This year Keith 'n Fran's 'proven' cycling sojourn spans Good Friday 9 April thru Easter Monday 12 April.
Pics of Keith 'n Fran are at Amadeus 'n Einstein in Chores 'n Crew. Keith, with the greying ponytail, is a member of Sydney Conservatorium of Music and a gun cyclist. Fran is a number cruncher, who knows what all those long mathematical formulae actually mean, and can match Keith on the bike.
Around a dozen cyclists [Annie Oakley, Bank Teller, Whippet, Tony Jan, Alana, Tornado, Princess Caroline, Kitchen Sink, Yamaha ‘n Linda], together with a handful of friends of Muggs, joined around 20 Bike Northers at Cowra for cycling 'n revelry last year.
Each day’s ride would be unlikely to exceed 3½ hours, as there is other stuff to do, like visit Japanese Garden and WWII memorabilia from the Cowra POW break-out, when regrettably in 1944 a bunch of Japanese POWs broke-out of a detention centre with horrific personal casualties. Not to forget other pleasurable pastimes, such as carbo-loading, and savoring the locally fermented produce.
Details, including all the route maps, descriptions is at Bike North's website
Bank Teller's rap-up of Sunday,
Scribe 12 May ‘04