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| | www.Muggaccinos.com The Bullsheet Sunday, 1 Apr 07, 7:15am from St Ives via Duffy's Forest, clockwise descent to Illawong Bay & Akuna Bay, with option of 8km in/out of Cottage Point, for Brekkie at Church Point with a
Sag Stop at Narrabeen - return via Wakehurst Parkway/Forest Way - 86km - ETR 12:30pm  | Care: Take care during the clockwise descent to Illawong Bay/Akuna Bay as there are 2 tight right hand bends that have 'claimed' some seasoned cyclists | | Ride Organiser: Phil Johnston 9498.3684 hm | | Hardcopy these directions and bring on Sunday | | RTA paints a solid centre-line on single lane roads when there isn't sufficient vision to overtake.
'Ipso facto' always cycle single-file if there is an unbroken centre-line. | | Cycling without Public Liability cover is as stupid as driving without 3rd Party - join Bicycle NSW for PL insurance cover in case your negligence causes a serious injury to another cyclist
Click on:
Risk Warnings
which warns of the dangers of cycling on
public roads with motor cars, potholes and over bridges with vertical timber
planks with gaps |
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 early and cycle E along Mona Vale Rd. After our customary 12km Duffy's Forest out/back, we drop down to Akuna Bay CLOCKWISE. Upon completing the circle back to McCarrs Creek timber bridge, we hook left and drop down to Church Point Café for 1st Nosh Stop from 9:55am (30 min) [48.3km] adjacent to the water’s edge.
Rookies can cycle 20.1km directly to
Church Point
Cafe and retrace back unaccompanied.
We then cycle N/E twds Mona Vale, before taking a right into Cabbage Tree Rd thru Warriewood to Narrow Bean Cafe 10 Waterloo St, Narrabeen 9913.3026 for 2nd Nosh Stop from 11am (20 min) [59.6km].
Thence W up Wakehurst Parkway, Forest Way, Mona Vale Rd back to St Ives [84km - ETR 12:30pm]. |
1st Leg: St Ives, via Duffy's Forest, Akuna Bay, Church Point
Cafe 49km or 40.3km if U skip the in/out of hilly Cottage Point | | Mona Vale Rd | 0.0 | St Ives car park | L | Mona Vale Rd | 6.5 | Myoora Rd | L | Mona Vale Fruit Barn | | 1st Sag Stop | L | Myoora Rd | 2.9 | Tepko Rd | L | Tepko Rd | 0.3 | Booralie Rd | L | Booralie Rd | 5.5 | "U" turn at end Booralie Rd | U | Booralie Rd | 5.7 | McCarrs Creek Rd | A | McCarrs Creek Rd to Thai Restaurant | | 2nd Sag Stop | A | McCarrs Creek Rd | 1.5 | "V" entrance to park | A | Gen. San Martin Drive | 3.9 | Cottage Point Rd | | L | Cottage Point Rd | 4.0 | Cottage Point Marina | | R | Cottage Point Rd | 4.0 | Gen. San Martin Drive | A | Gen. San Martin Drive | 1.7 | Illawong Bay | A | Gen. San Martin Drive | 2.1 | Akuna Bay | A | McCarrs Creek Rd | 3.3 | T' West Hd Rd & McCarrs Creek Rd | R | West Head Rd | 1.6 | McCarrs Creek Bridge | L | McCarrs Creek Rd | 5.3 | Church Point Café | |
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Church Point Cafe | | 1st Nosh Stop |
2nd Leg: Church Point to Narrabeen cafe - 12½km |
A |
McCarrs Creek Rd |
3.8 |
Cabbage Tree Rd on RHS | R | Cabbage Tree Rd /Samuel St | 2.5 | Mona Vale Rd | A | Ponderosa Pde/ McPherson St | 1.9 | Warriewood Rd | R | Warriewood Rd | 0.3 | Pittwater Rd | A | Harwood Place | 0.1 | Hunter St | L | Hunter St | 0.1 | Narrabeen Park Pde | R | Narrabeen Park Pde | 1.3 | Ocean St | R | Ocean St | 2.3 | Narrabeen cafe | | Café Narrabeen | | 3rd Sag Stop | 3rd Leg: Narrabeen cafe via Wakehurst Parkway, Forest Way to St Ives 23km | L | Ocean St | 0.9 | Waterloo St | L | Waterloo St | 0.1 | Pittwater Rd | R | Pittwater Rd | 0.3 | Wakehurst Parkway | L | Wakehurst Parkway | 9.9 | 50m before French's Forest Rd | | | LHS of Rd 50m before lights | | 4th Sag Stop | R | French's Forest Rd / Naree Rd | 1.0 | Forest Way | R | Forest Way | 5.4 | Mona Vale Rd | L | Mona Vale Rd | 6.5 | St Ives car park | | | 86.2 | |
Scribe's rap-up of Sunday, 25th March for Whale Beach Sloshfest - 70km - 4 cyclists 5 mins before rollout Printer and Scribe had agreed to pull the pin on today's ride what with the prospect of a bleak drizzly day. Whereupon The Kaiser rode into St Ives carpark and would not hear of it. A few mins later Guy aka Lawyer arrived with a new 27 teeth cassette on the back. Pleased to report that we completed 70 clicks and kept the rubber side down on a slippery surface. 
A delightful waitress at Whale Beach Café, Alice, snapped the above pic. Whereupon Bank Teller snapped a pic of the delightful Alice.
Arno pigged-out on a burger with Matt and Scribe tackling scrambled eggs. Dead-set the grub was grouse.
And on a wet morn' we had the joint to ourselves. 
A few pics of a stretching lesson at West Head last Tues morn' after Kerry aka Miner mentioned to Bank Teller that he felt a niggling twinge in the lower back Bank Teller 25 March '07 | | |
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