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The Bullsheet
Sunday,
26
Sept'04 7:15am
from St Ives
"Brekkie at Bayview Marina
-
Brunch at Akuna Bay"
- 92km - ETR 12:55pm
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Ride Leader/Organiser: Phil Johnston
9498.3684 |
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If
you are a slowcoach
-
*
leave from
7:05am
and cycle
E
along Mona Vale Rd;
* as soon as you see the
lead group returning
from Duffy's Forest turn around so as to arrive back at
Thai Restaurant Sag Stop in
sync with the lead group; and
* move on from Sag and Nosh Stops early! |
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Cycle
two abreast at own risk. Keep well to LHS of the
roadway. |
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Get
off the road at Sag Stops. |
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Cycling
without Public Liability cover is as silly as driving without 3rd Party - join
Bicycle NSW for PL insurance, so that all Muggs are better protected. |
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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]
for 7:15am rollout. If
you are a slowcoach, leave from
7:05am
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 10:10am [60km].
Return straight to St Ives [84km
- ETR 11:55am]
Or via Akuna Bay 3rd Nosh Stop
(30 min) from 12:00am [92km - ETR 12:55pm].
Sag Stops:
1. Mona Vale Fruit Barn from
7:31m (3 min)
2. Terrey Hills Thai Restaurant from
8:12am (5 min)
Nosh Stops:
1.
West Head from 9:03am (15 min)
2. Bayview Marina Café from 10:10am (35 min)
3. Akuna Bay
from 11:20am (30 min)
KOM climb:
TollBooth at Illawong Bay, passing
Cottage Point Rd on RHS to TollBooth
at top - 5.6km
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First
Leg: St Ives to Terrey Hills Thai Restaurant Sag Stop - 22.7km - 55 min
7:15am
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E
along Mona Vale
Rd for
6.7km, |
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L
[opposite Forest Way - at Mona Vale Fruit Barn] into Myoora Rd and
take a
1st Sag Stop
(3 min), |
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Ahead 3km along Myoor Larool
Rd, |
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L
into
Tepko Rd
(75m short
of Booralie Rd)
for
400m, |
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L
into Booralie Rd,
'n pedal like "shit out of
Shanghai" 5.7km flat/fast stretch past Terrey Hills Golf Course
and rifle range to Duffy's Forest (amidst real pigs, goats, horses 'n cows), |
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"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
(5 min) from
8:12am
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) - 50 min
8 :17am
-
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).
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Ahead along West Head Rd for 12km to The Headland
for 1st
Nosh Stop
(15 min)
from 9:03am [41.3km] - pack
nibbles, ‘cause we take a gawk
at the majestic, shimmering peninsula - Pittwater/Lion
Island.
Third
Leg: West Head to
Bayview Marina
Kiosk - 21.5km (agg 62.8km) - 55 min
9.18am
-
-
Retrace
13.4km to McCarrs Creek bridge,
-
hook a L
into McCarrs Creek Rd at 9:52am [52.5km] for 7.5km passing Church Point arriving at
Bayview Marina Kiosk at
10:10am for
2nd Nosh Stop
[60km]
9979.5782ph (30min).
Fourth
Leg:
Bayview Marina to Akuna Bay
- 12.8km (agg 75.2km) - 45 min
Over Brunch we
will ascertain who, at 11:45am, is -
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cycling
21km back up
McCarrs Creek Rd and onto St Ives - ETR 12:pm
[83km]; and |
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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 [73km]. |
Fifth
Leg:
Akuna Bay to St Ives - 19.4km (agg 95.5km) - 65 min
11:50pm
climb
anti-clockwise from Akuna Bay to Terrey Hills and re-enter Mona Vale Rd via -
Thence,
it is a rapid-fire 6.6km stretch to St Ives [92km]
- ETR 12:55pm.
Bank Teller's rap-up of Tour de Old Bathurst Rd,
Springwood, Yarramundi, Richmond - 91km
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Tornado, Yamaha 'n Heineken (Printer
obscured, except for his left arm 'n knee) at the KOM of a killer 2.33km KOM Climb
up Old Bathurst Rd where the peak gradient over the steepest 100m section is
?.??% (still to be determined by the number crunchers).
Tornado
creamed all of us with an amazing KOM time of 9:57.
Heineken finished with 11:45. Printer's time was 13:42,
with Bank Teller way back on 17:44. All times have been posted in
"Log your Climb times" to
www.KOMpm.com
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Above 'n below pics at Old Poste Office Café,
Springwood amidst brill, balmy sunshine.
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5 gay guys at Richmond. Aren't they all happy
chaps???
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Above n below snaps taken at Richmond station after
we'd completed the 42.1km twin-legs from Emu Plains station initially NWW to Springwood
Nosh Stop,
then NNE to Richmond, where we visited lands which were popular in the
early 19th century. But in many ways have stood still since then.
What is all the fuss in the above pic? Well,
Yamaha works with a dude named Sully!!! And Yamaha had never
realised that when his dutiful, diligent, hard-at-it work colleague, Sully,
'had his head down' seemingly engrossed in RTA stuff. Little
did Yamaha realise that Sully was head-long into marketing his Garden
Centre business.
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A good day had by all, and another marvellous 91km ride
"out West" discovered.
Where else, can you leave the snotty, North Shore address of
Turramurra at 7:20am on a sleepy Sunday morn', and less than 7 hrs later return, after
having cycled to Blacktown, then up a ball-terror of a climb, Old Bathurst Rd, thru Blaxland, Springwood, Winmalee, Yarramundi 'n Richmond.
Whereupon we "trained it" back to Seven Hills station, returning to snobbish upper-middle-class suburbia,
with your therapy valves
re-charged from beaut ride way-out-West.
Scribe 12
Sept 04
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