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Muggaccinos.com
The Bullsheet
Public Hol, Monday,
8 June '09 by 8:10am from St Ives for "Brunch at Warriewood" -
return
via Wakehurst Parkway -
94km
- ETR 1:05pm
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Click on:
Risk
Management
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 aka
BankTeller 0434 715.861
9114.6689 VOIP will ride from Hornsby to St Ives with
John aka BakerBoy
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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.
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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.
SagStop:
1.
Cnr Frenchs Forest
Rd and Wakehurst Parkway (5 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 - 105 min
Depart St Ives car-park between 8:00am
and 8:10am
depending on your ride speed:
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E along Mona Vale Rd
for
6.2km;
-
L
into
Myoora Rd
passing
Forest Way - at
Terrey Hills
Vale Fruit Barn;
-
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;
-
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
via same route Terrey Hills neighbourhood shops;
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Left into McCarrs Creek
Rd immediately passing
Terrey Hills Thai Restaurant
and entering 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;
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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
Sag Stop (10
min) from
9:45am
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
9:55am
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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
from 10:55am with Bayview Golf Course on
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 11:05am -
69km]
for 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
11:40am -
R
into
Malcolm St for 50m;
ETR 1:05pm -
94km.
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Bank Teller's rap-up of
Tour de Windsor - 7 cyclists - 133km
Bad news is that it was really, really cold on the initial
descent of Galston Gorge just prior to eight bells. Good news is
that whilst Rex took a nasty tumble cycling at about 20 km/h over one of the two
timber bridges on Pitt Town Rd, fortunately apart from losing some bark off a
knee and suffering a few bruises, Rex was able to cycle back via the arduous Sackville ferry
route with the two chaps in the below pic.
As set out in
Risk Management, pursuant
to the Civil Liability Acts 2002, in particular for NSW
Division 5 Recreational
Activities
of
Civil Liability Amendment (Personal
Responsibility) Act 2002 No 92,
Scribe is required
to Provide A Risk
Warning of Three
Types Of Risks. So please dismount at all timber bridges unless
you are God Dam Sure the gaps between
longitudinal planks are not wide enough to catch ya wheel, or
the protruding bolts could not bring ya down, because cyclists have been
killed or ended up a paraplegic from similar falls. So Rex who was cycling
at approx 20km/h got off real light.
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George aka EnglishMan and
Grant aka BeanCounter at Hornsby station
start spot ETD +1min
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The above snap descending Galston Gorge, with
Pete aka
CampyAficionado pulled up at Scribe's behest for
a Happy Snap, belies how
heavy the fog was, nor does it reveal how frightfully chilly, and about to get
even more chilly, it was
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PacificPete,
Harry aka KayakMan
and Christine aka Luddite (Hawkesbury
Tri Club) at
The Bridge
Cafe, Windsor.
Harry met Christine a few years ago when she paddled a kayak. Then Luddite
got the triathlon bug, whereupon her kayak hasn't seen the water much lately.
Christine is a "gun runner" and aspiring cyclist. However, openly
acknowledges that she doesn't understand how to adjust deraileurs or the physics
of gear ratios, but has undertaken to learn about them so as to avoid
unnecessary trips to
the bike shop to do ten second adjustments.
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Scribe
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