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Sunday 24 July '11 – Trois Montagnes (anti-clockwise) - 1st Nosh Stop Red Herring Café, Brooklyn

Start 200m NW of Hornsby station from 8:35am for 72km.  ETR 12:45pm

Cyclists should time their start to arrive at 1st Nosh Stop at Red Herring Café, Brooklyn Wharf at 9:50am. 
WHO, WHEN, WHERE:

Ride Organiser: Phil aka BankTeller  0434 715.861, Pete aka CampyAficinado, David aka CricketTragic, Jane aka NeoLuddite, are starting from Hornsby station at 8:35am.
 If you think you are >80% of joining us, can you e-mail Scribe, and he will add ya.

Snapshot:
 200m NW of Hornsby station cycling North up Old Pacific H'way to 1st Nosh Stop at Red Herring Café, Brooklyn.  Thence 11km retracing South, then turn right at Berowra Waters Rd to Nth Galston for lunch at Andy's Cafe.  Return via Galston Gorge and Bobbin Head.
 SagStops:
1st       Red Herring Café                     -   9:50am    (30 min)

2nd      Berowra Waters punt             -   10am       (10 min)

NoshStop:

1st       Andy's Cafe, Nth Galston         -  10:40am     (25 min)

1st Leg: Hornsby 26km to Red Herring Café Brooklyn for 1st Nosh Stop (30 min)

Rollout 8:35am from Hornsby car-park [100m Nth/West of Railway Hotel in Jersey St] cycling 500m Nth up Jersey St, L into Wharf Rd for 60m, R [at traffic lights] onto Pacific Highway and cycle Nth on Old Pacific Highway to Brooklyn Rd where you turn right and cycle 2.8km to Red Herring Café.

Both groups pass Berowra station 9am, Cowan station 9:20am and Pie in the Sky Cafe at 9:20am.  After passing Pie in the Sky Cafe descend almost to water level, R turn into Brooklyn Rd for 3.2km for 1st Nosh Stop (30 min) at Red Herring Café, Brooklyn from 9:50am. 

2nd Leg: Red Herring Café, Brooklyn to Andy's Cafe, Nth Galston - 33km (agg 70km from Nth Turra') - 85 min

10:20am return for 11km and R into Berowra Waters Rd for flattish section before descending to picturesque Berowra Waters 11am for 2nd Sag Stop (10 min) during ride on the punt. 

Or continue south and return to either Hornsby [52km] car parks. 

After cycling thru rural Berrilee and Arcadia, take 2nd Nosh Stop (25 min) at Andy's Cafe Arcadia from 11:45am.

 

 

3rd Leg: Andy's Cafe to Hornsby car-park - 13km - 35 min

12:10am commence return home continuing South along Galston Rd to the large roundabout at Galston, Left to descend and scale Galston George passing familiar Hornsby Heights' bus shelter. Continue 3km to Hookham's Corner and R to Jersey St, Hornsby car-park - ETR 12:45am

Risk Warning
 Ø   Do not cycle over the metal girders on the ramp at the Berowra Waters ferry, if you opt to cycle off the ferry, 'cause you will come down hard, like many before you.
 Ø   Hardcopy these directions and bring on Sunday

Ø   Expend 5 min studying your street directory for this route, if you haven't ridden it before

Ø   Don't ride two abreast on single lane roads with an unbroken centre line and descend corners on wet roads as though you are skating on ice

Ø   When passing a fellow Mugg, always provide a metre clearance.  If you can't, or are passing on the inside, you MUST call out loudly eg. "passing inside" etc

Some forms of cycling are dangerous.  An ave of 36 Australian cyclists have been killed annually since 2000.  95% of these fatalities occur on the road. 

Other cyclists in Australia break bones and incur nerve impairment from falling off their bikes in accidents. 

A cyclist could fall from his/her bike, inter alia, due to -
(i)      being hit by a car or another cyclist; or
(ii)     encountering a pothole;

(iii)    cycling too fast on a wet downhill where the coefficient of friction is much less, particularly at corners; or
(iv)    getting their bicycle wheel caught in a gap in a timber bridge.

A negligent cyclist could -

(a)    be litigated by a seriously injured cyclist, or 3rd party (ie. a woman pushing a pram on a footpath or a car driver) under common law where the damages could exceed $500,000; and

(b)    lose his/her home if he/she did not have public liability insurance which covers their negligence whilst on a push bike.

A negligent cyclist who did not have personal injury insurance (ie self-employed without income protection cover) could struggle to meet regular outgo commitments.

A seriously injured cyclist could be awarded damages which a negligent cyclist could not afford to pay if the negligent cyclist -
(I)     did not have public liability insurance cover; and/or
(II)    did not possess valuable assets.

Ř   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

Ř    Click on: Risk Management which warns of 'inter alia', the dangers of cycling on public roads with motor cars, potholes and over bridges with vertical timber planks with gaps

Ř    Cycling with Muggs is predicated upon notifying Bank Teller if you materially disagree with any clause(s) in Muggaccinos' "Ride Participants Liability Acknowledgment"

Scribe pics of abridged ride to Duffy's Forest, Church Point, returning to St Ives - 50km - 4 cyclists

Above three pics from a fog-bound Duffy's Forest

Less foggy, but not much warmer at Church Point

Scribe   17 July '11