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Sunday, 11 Apr, 7am from St Ives for "Brunch at Warriewood" - return via Wakehurst Parkway - 95km - ETR 12:30pm

• Ride Leader:  Brian Willis  9807.6439      Ride Organiser:  Phil Johnston  9498.3684 hm

• Hardcopy these directions and bring on Sunday

• Cycle 2 abreast on single lane roads at own peril

• Get well off the road at Sag Stops

• Road cycling is relatively dangerous.  Membership of Bicycle NSW provides $20m Public Liability cover if you injure a fellow Mugg or motorist

• If you cause an accident to another Mugg or 3rd party, you could lose your personal assets.  Or conversely, if you are badly injured you might litigate the negligent party.  Unless you are a member of a cycle racing club, join BNSW or Bike Vic.

1st Leg: St Ives to West Head, via Duffys Forest - 41km - 113 min

Depart St Ives car-park by 7am

• E along Mona Vale Rd for 6.2km;

• L [opposite Forest Way - at Mona Vale Fruit Barn] into Myoora Rd and take a fleeting Sag Stop (3 min) from 7:20am;

• 3km along Myoor Larool Rd until 70m before Booralie Rd;

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

• L into Booralie Rd and 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 – slower cyclists must turn around as soon as they see lead cyclists returning to return via same route and pull up under shady tree [left of the white road line] 150m past Terrey Hills neighbourhood shopping centre [opposite Terrey Hills Thai Restaurant] for a Sag Stop (3 min) from 7:55am;

• Down McCarrs Creek Rd enter Ku’ring’gai Chase National Park for 3km to "V" (dual entrances to the park);

• R at the "V" anti-clockwise and descend to McCarrs Creek;

• L over bridge for 1.8km to "T" juncture (Akuna Bay Marina is 2.8km on LHS);

• Ahead 12km along West Head Rd to the headland.

Pack lots of nibbles, ‘cause we take our 1st Nosh Stop (15 min) from 8:55am for a snack and a gawk at the majestic, shimmering blue peninsula - Pittwater/Lion Island stuff.

2nd Leg: West Head to Warriewood - 28km - 71 min
9:10am -

• Return 12km to "T" juncture with Akuna Bay,

• Ahead descending 1.8km to McCarrs Creek bridge at 9:55am [55km],

• L into McCarrs Creek Rd for 8.8km past Church Point, Bayview Marina and pulling up 50m before Cabbage Tree Rd (or immediately after turning,

• R into Cabbage Tree Rd for Sag Stop from 10am - lift bike off the road above gutter (5 min) (Bayview Golf Course will be on both L and R);

• Ahead for 1.5km leads into Samuel St and crosses Mona Vale Rd at roundabout,

• R into Warriewood Rd 200m later crossing Pittwater Rd at traffic lights and immediately climbing up Hunter St [dog-leg L, then R] which leads to views of Blue Pacific overlooking majestic Warriewood Beach [around 10:35am - 69 km] for 2nd Nosh Stop (35 min).

A neighbourhood, strip-front shopping centre is immediately on RHS in Narrabeen Park Pde.  Nautilus Café is about 4 shops along.  Sunrise Milk Bar, on the cnr, makes grouse burgers.

3rd Leg: Warriewood beach cafés to St Ives, via Wakehurst Parkway - 26km - 84 min

 

11:10am -

	Sth adjacent to the coast for 2km - initially along Sydney Rd which becomes Ocean St;
	R into Malcolm St for 50m;
	L into Lagoon St for 1km;
	R into Waterloo St for 300m;
	R into Pittwater Rd for 100m crossing bridge over Narrabeen Lakes;
	veer L into Wakehurst Parkway for a toughish 9.9km (initially flat past Narrabeen Lakes thence a constant climb) for Sag Stop from 11:50am (5 min) either approaching crest of climb immediately prior to traffic lights at French Forest Rd or at the lights, so long as you get off the road;
	R into French Forest Rd at lights for 800m;
	R into Rabbett St for 200m decent;
	L into Adams St for a 200m "real tough" grind/climb;
	R onto Forest Way for 5.3km; and
	L into Mona Vale for 6.2km to St Ives.

ETR 12:30pm - 95km.

Scribe's pics from Good Friday, 9 April, Tour de Royal National Park which attracted 14

14, including 4 Sheilas, made Muggs customary journey south to ride the Royal National Park on the Easter long w'end where the traffic is lighter, 'cause heaps of Southsiders' make the exodus from Sydney. The above two pics were shot at the familiar Otford Pie Shop after 57 clicks, having earlier taken in the sights and snacks at pristine Bundeena Beach, which ironically doesn't serve an array of pies, but makes great burgers.  And the panoramic view of the South Coast from the outdoor table setting at Otford is awesome.  So the 40min drive at Sparrow Fart to park at a deserted Sutherland Leisure Centre is a small price to pay. Immediately right is a 20" Red Belly Black Snake which Bank Teller snapped as it sunbaked on the climb out of Wallamolla Beach.  If you look close you can see its red belly.  Scribe had just ridden immediately by it, but lacked the ticker to back-pedal too much for a closer shot, as Red Bellies are reputedly a tad more dangerous than the large brown snakes we see particularly twds West Head.

Whippet’s rap-up of Sunday 4 April "Bobbin Head", "OPH" (where Others Preferred to be Home) to "PitSky" Sloshfest - 52km for 5 wet warriors 

Although Turramurra is one of the wettest suburbs in Sydney, our 6:45am start was dry.  Bean Counter, Big Gears, Navigator, Kaza (still with bike in car) were waiting patiently for Whippet to make a show, or the rain to fall.  It remained dry to Kalkari where Grant recorded a KOM time of 9min 36sec. Then after turning north along the Old Pac Highway things began to change, whereupon it veritably pissed down, sheets of water descended upon us perhaps the heaviest downpour in the 9 year history of Muggaccinos.  Thence, Dirty Cheat snuck by in his familiar unpolished red, cheap Jap 2 door, supposed to be on his first ride after NZ.  We learnt over a protracted coffee break at PitS that Scribe's nephew, who works at Clarence St, had conned him into parting with $200 for a new Giro helmet, after busting his last one in Christchurch.  The rest of the assembled few had not parted with over $100 for their polystyrene bonnets.

Sanity prevailed, as with the skies black in every direction, after a lengthy Nosh Stop, we all turned around and scurried home.

Why is it so?

We'd scored three flats over five bikes over 25km to PitS, where nobody even dropped down for the KOM, Brooklyn road 'U' turn back to PitS.  From the comfort of indoor at PitS Temperate Tony postulated.  "It’s worth noting, that apart from not seeing broken glass on the road in the wet, glass more easily pierces into the tyre because there is lower resistance when the sharp object and the tyre are both wet". (lower friction)  It seems that in dry weather, the tyre may just bend inwards without the sharp point pushing thru into the tube.  Don't know whether Tony's theory is correct.  However, casual empiricism suggests that it might be, with three flats amongst 5 of us.

The Scribe    4 Apr '04