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The Bullsheet
Sunday, 15 July '07 by 8:30am from St Ives for "Brunch at Warriewood" -
return
via Wakehurst Parkway -
94km
- ETR 2pm
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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
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Ride
Organiser:
Phil Johnston
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Hardcopy
these directions and bring on Sunday.
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DON'T
cycle
2 abreast on single lane roads with an unbroken centre line
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Get
well off the road at Sag Stops.
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Road
cycling may be dangerous with
cyclists and 3rd parties getting killed or badly injured each year. Membership
of Bicycle NSW provides $20m Public Liability cover if you injure a
fellow Mugg or motorist.
Rollout from St Ives car
park
for Terrey Hills, Duffy’s Forest, West Head (1st Nosh Stop – pack nibbles),
Church Point, Warriewood (2nd Nosh Stop).
Return Wakehurst Parkway and Forest Way.
SagStops:
1.
Terrey Hills Fruit Barn
(3 min)
2.
Terrey Hills Thai Restaurant
(3 min)
3.
Cabbage Tree Rd
(3 min)
4.
Cnr Frenchs Forest
Rd and Wakehurst Parkway (10 min)
NoshStops:
1st:
West Head (15 min)
2nd:
Sunrise Cafe overlooking
Warriewood Beach (35
min)
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1st
Leg: St Ives to
West Head, via Duffys Forest - 41km - 115 min
Depart St Ives car-park between 8:20am
and 8:30am
depending on your ride speed:
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E along Mona Vale Rd
for
6.2km;
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L
[opposite Forest Way - at
Terrey Hills
Vale Fruit Barn] into Myoora Rd and
take a fleeting Sag Stop (3 min);
-
3km along Myoora Larool Rd until
Tepko Rd which is
70m before Booralie Rd;
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L into
Tepko Rd (70m short
of Booralie Rd) for
400m;
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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);
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"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 shops [opposite
Terrey Hills Thai Restaurant]
for a
Sag Stop
(5 min)
- if you are slow, continue on to West Head;
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Descend 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 small timber bridge for 1.8km to "T" juncture
(Akuna Bay Marina is
2.8km on
LHS);
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Ahead 12km
along West Head Rd to
West Head.
Pack lots of nibbles,
‘cause we take our 1st Nosh Stop (10
min) from
10:20am
for a snack and
a gawk at the majestic, shimmering blue
peninsula and
The
Greenies blocked the proposed McChucks on
the headland.
2nd
Leg: West
Head to Warriewood - 28km - 70 min
10:30am
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Return
12km to "T" juncture with Akuna Bay,
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Ahead
descending 1.8km to McCarrs Creek small timber bridge [55km],
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L
into
McCarrs Creek Rd for 8.8km past Church Point, Bayview Marina to
Cabbage Tree Rd,
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R into Cabbage Tree Rd
for Sag Stop
from 10:45am - lift bike off the road above gutter
to get off the road (5 min)
(Bayview Golf Course will be on both LHS);
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Ahead
for 1.5km leads into Samuel St and crosses
Mona Vale Rd at roundabout,
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Ahead into Ponderosa Pde veering Right
becoming McPherson St for 2km to
Warriewood Rd
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R
into Warriewood Rd 200m 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 11:40am -
69km]
for
2nd Nosh Stop (35 min)
at the
Sunrise Cafe.
A neighbourhood, strip-front shopping centre is
immediately on RHS in Narrabeen Park Pde.
Nautilus Café is about 4 shops along.
Sunrise
Cafe, on the
corner makes grouse burgers.
3rd
Leg:
Warriewood
beach cafés to St Ives, via Wakehurst Parkway - 26km - 85 min
12:15pm -
ETR 2pm -
94km.
Scribe's rap-up of Tour de
Windsor, Freeman's Reach, Nth Richmond Lowlands and Cornwallis - 108km - 7
cyclists
With the forecast of rain which ultimately arrived,
numbers were down to 7 who had started from three different starting points of
Turramurra station, Hornsby and Porters Lookout Dural. As is his want, Rex
had cycled 70km by the time he arrived at Windsor, having taken the circuitous
route via Marotta and the Sackville ferry.
Neil aka
SoccerTragic and
HongKong
David 'shooten the breeze' at
The
Bridge Cafe Windsor on a pleasantly warm Winter's morn' -
circa 2007
L to R above - Rex aka
Pimpernel,
Scribe, Neil, David, Pete aka
Pacific, Ann aka
ToothFairy
and Trevor aka Tornado
An SMS from Rex post-ride reported Trev and he got rained-on at
Galston clocking-up 100km and 124km respectively. Neil peeled-off +80km
and remains keen to register his inaugural 100+km ride soon.
Scribe
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