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The Bullsheet
Sunrise in 6:14am
Easter Sunday,
8 April '12:
*
7:05am from
Hornsby station
carpark on West side of train line 60m Nth of Railway Hotel in Jersey St
for -
Mt White return' - 71km
ETR 12:20pm
or
Peats Ridge
ETR 2:50pm
* 7:35am
from
Cowan
station carpark for
128km
for "Ride into Deliverance
Country - Spencer
Re-visited - catching Iron Horse from Wyong"
to visit
The Hub of the Universe, Spencer
ETR Cowan
station
4:47pm
or
Hornsby station
5:14pm.
Both above start points arrive
at
Mt White "Road Warriors Cafe"
from
8:30am for
1st Nosh Stop
(30 min).
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WHO, WHEN, WHERE
Phil aka
Bank Teller,
David aka CricketTragic,
PrincessCaroline,
Jean aka ChiliDog,
Tony
aka Publican,
John aka
Auckland
and
Jane aka Luddite
are starting from
Cowan
station at 7:35am bound for
The Hub of the Universe, Spencer
and then onto the Wyong train. Pete aka
CampyAficinado is hopeful of
starting from Berowra with his nephew and riding to Mt White 'n back.
Start from Hornsby if you are returning from -
* Mt. White after our 1st Nosh
Stop; or
* Peats Ridge if you want a longer 'out/back' ride.
If you
are 80% confident of riding this Sunday, subject to fine weather, email
Bank Teller
and he will add ya moniker above.
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Snapshot:
Rollout
Hornsby station
carpark
by 7:05am or
Cowan
station carpark
by
7:35am to beat the throng.
Nosh Stops at Mt White, Spencer and Yarramalong.
Sag Stops at Peats Ridge and
Mangrove Mountain.
Catch All Stops from Wyong 2:50pm alighting
Cowan 3:47pm or Hornsby 4:14pm.
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1st
Longer Leg: Hornsby to Mt White - 35.5km - 95 min
Rollout from
Hornsby station
carpark
by 7:05am cycling Nth
up Old Pacific H'way passing Pie in the Sky, crossing Old Hawkesbury River bridge arriving
Mt White "Road Warriors Cafe"
from
8:30am for
1st Nosh Stop
(30 min).
1st
Shorter Leg: Cowan to Mt White - 20.1km - 50 min
Rollout from
Cowan
station carpark by 7:35am cycling Nth
up Old Pacific H'way passing Pie in the Sky, crossing Old Hawkesbury River bridge arriving
Mt White "Road Warriors Cafe"
from
8:30am for 1st Nosh Stop
(30 min).
2nd
Leg: Mt White to Peats Ridge - 21km (agg 41.1km from Cowan) - 65 min
Depart
"Road Warriors Cafe"
9am -
-
Nth
up Old Pacific H'way for 6.2km;
-
L into Peats Ridge Rd for 15km
continuous, gradual
climb for 1st Sag Stop
(10 min) at
United Gas,
Peats Ridge from 10:05am.
3rd
Leg: Peats Ridge to
The Hub of the Universe, Spencer - 30.2km (agg 71.3km
from Cowan) -
85 min
Re-mount
10:15am
-
-
L 300m Nth
into George Downs Drive thence
NNW for
3½km to Central Mangrove;
-
L
SW
into
Wisemans Ferry Rd at Central Mangrove
descending thru Mangrove Mountain, Lower Mangrove following the
river 26km to Spencer for 2nd Nosh Stop
(35 min)
at
The Hub of the Universe, Spencer
from 11:40am.
4th
Leg: Spencer to Friendly Store, Mangrove Mountain shopping
centre - 22.8km (agg 94.1km from Cowan) -
75 min
Re-mount
11:15pm
and retrace
22.8km up
Wiseman's Ferry
Rd to
Friendly Store, Mangrove Mountain
shops on LHS arriving from 12:25pm for 2nd Sag Stop
(10 min).
5th
Leg: Friendly Store, Mangrove Mountain to
Yarramalong Manor
-
15.2km (agg 109.3km from Cowan) -
40 min
Re-mount
12:35pm:
-
retrace
600m up Wiseman's Ferry Rd;
-
Ahead into Bloodtree Rd for
3.8km (where Wiseman's Ferry Rd veers Right);
-
L into
George Downs
Drive for 3.5km;
-
R
into
Springs Rd
for a
Sign
Post (3 min),
thence 3.1km East twds Bumble Hill to Greta Rd;
-
Ahead
for 2.1km up Bumble Hill to Forest Rd
-
Ahead 2.4km descending
Bumble Hill cautiously;
-
R
for 60m to 3rd Nosh Stop (25 min)
from 1:15pm
at
Yarramalong Manor.
6th Leg: Yarramalong to Wyong station - 18.8km
(agg 128.1km from Cowan) - 55 min
By
1:40pm
commence 18.8km flat/fast hit-out E
along
Yarramalong Rd
to Wyong station by 2:40pm.
All-stops trains depart Wyong 50 min past the hour, arriving Cowan station 57 min
later and arriving Hornsby station a further 27 min later (all up from Wyong to
Hornsby is 1 hr 24 min).
Express trains depart 33 min past the hour arriving Hornsby 60 min later.
ETR Cowan 3:47pm and Hornsby
4:14pm. ETR
Hornsby for Express train is 3:35pm or 4:33pm. |
Civil Liability and Personal Responsibility ACT (NSW) 2002,
in particular
Division 5 Recreational Activities, obligates
the
Inviter to
Provide A Risk Warning
to an
Invitee(s) when participating in a
Recreational Activity
which involves a
Risk of Harm
Sufferable due to one or more of the
Three
Types Of Risks
About
4 years ago,
Guy aka Lawyer,
ended up in North Shore Spinal Unit requiring surgery on his neck after pulling
up quickly due to an oncoming vehicle getting close, whereupon a subsequent
Muggs' rider,
Greg aka ArchitectToo,
clipped Guy's pedal and they both took
nasty falls.
Last
Sunday arvo on the final leg to Hornsby,
Tony aka
Yorkshire,
ended up in RNSH
after being slow to react to
Kevin aka TexDubbo
and
David aka MountainGoat
breaking upon seeing a red traffic light signal ahead. Tony acknowledged
that he was slow to react and upon seeing Kev's imposing rump, coming up real
rapid, Tony instinctively slammed on the brakes and cart-wheeled over the handle
bars, with the inevitable Noggin going gyro head-first into the tarmac, smashing
his helmet, which may have otherwise ended in brain damage.
Fortunately, after
RNSH trauma unit (in Emergency) doing chest,
shoulder and neck X-rays, head CT scan, and abdominal ultrasound, and blood
tests, all within 2 hours of admission, Tony was released within 6 hours.
Tony was told that he was the third cyclist that day in Emergency.
Bank Teller understands that Tony was at least one bike length behind
TexDubbo.
Tony is off to the UK shortly visiting his Dad, but is keen to resume riding
with Muggs upon his return.
Alas, we are going to evidence more bad bingles
because of the hell-for-leather antics of some ride groups such as
Peloton Cycles, who think that luck can continue indefinitely. Empirical
evidence at RNSH and Hornsby Hospital verifies otherwise. Below is an
extract from a recent Peloton email weekly newssheet which establishes that
Peloton's management doesn't understand the legal liability upon itself, and its
ride leaders, to ensure risk management 'warning procedures', when inviting
Invitees to participate in a
Recreational Activity
which involves a
Risk of Harm
Sufferable.
"Yesterdays ride proved to be a rather unsafe
one for many. There were 6 crashes
on the ride where we would have preferred none. We would just like to
highlight a few points on safety to try to make the rides safer for all.
- When riding on the front of the bunch, it is your responsibility to
control and direct the bunch. This includes calling all
potholes and obstacles on the road. This must be done regardless of how fast
you are going or how tired you are. It is not acceptable to ignore them. And
part of your responsibility of being in the bunch is to pass this message
back through the remainder bunch. If you are not willing to do this then
ride at the back. Yesterday this was not done and riders hit huge potholes,
nearly crashed and lost water bottles. This is unacceptable.
- If you are riding at 100% of your capacity then chances are you are not
concentrating enough on what is going on around you. Dropping wheels and
crossing wheels are symptoms of this and are commonly what leads to
accidents. Safety is the highest priority on the road so make sure you ride
within yourself and ride safely in the bunch."
Over
two years ago, at the behest of the Editor of
Push On, Jenni Gormley,
Bank
Teller researched Regulation 126 “Keeping a safe distance behind
vehicles” of the
NSW Road Rules 2008,
namely whether a bicycle rider (designated as a vehicle under Regulation 15) is
required to travel at a safe distance behind another cyclist. Jenni
published his findings in
“Is
riding in a bunch illegal?”.
No one has ever disputed his assertions therein, that cyclists are braking the
law when not riding at a distance whereby a cyclist can pull up to avoid hitting a
vehicle ahead.
As night follows day, a cyclist
ahead will successfully litigate a cyclist behind who cannons into him/her which
causes the cyclist ahead to suffer a serious injury, unless the cyclist ahead
has agreed to the cyclist behind drafting him/her.
For
this reason
Ride Participant Liability Acknowledgment includes:
(x)
As a
Ride Participant, I –
(d) accept
that Muggs' credo is climbing steep hills with gusto; and
i) I will not draft less than
one bicycle length from the bicycle in front of me for more than 20 seconds
without the agreement of the rider in front [who pursuant to sub clause
(ii) below, then accepts responsibility to warn of pending obstructions (eg.
glass, potholes, grids)] due to increased likelihood of wheels touching,
particularly on the flats and down hills, and consequent falls where
the road always wins; and
ii) if I am leading a
small consensual bunch, I will -
+ warn
Ride Participants
behind me, using both hand
signals and loud audible warnings, of upcoming potholes, grids etc;
+ scream-out real loud, real fast if I
need to deviate in speed or direction due to something that I see within my
pathway - "like a good fly-half, I will keep my outside backs informed"
Hence, if you are riding with Muggs and you -
a)
draft within one bicycle length of a rider ahead for more than 20 seconds and
you do not seek permission to draft that rider, and you cause the rider ahead,
or another rider(s), to suffer a serious injury(ies), you had better have
reliable third party public liability insurance with a lot of zeros in the
liability amount; or
b)
you agree for another rider to draft within one bicycle length of your rear
wheel, and you cause the rider behind, or another rider(s), to suffer a serious
injury due to not warning them of a pending obstruction, you had better have
reliable third party public liability,
especially if the person(s) that your negligence causes to be seriously injured
is/are self-employed with three kids, a wife at home and a huge mortgage, and
they are unable to continue working in that profession and suffer a future
income loss.
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Pics from
Tour de Nepean Dam 'n
Avon Dam - 115km - 10 cyclists
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'Take
One' (above) and 'Take Two' (below) outside the Tahmoor Subway après 34km
on a 'pearler' of an early Autumn morn', where Matt has de-throned the
Michelin Man who
put in a lukewarm effort to defend his hard earned (in the Mt Annan
carpark a year earlier)
Michelin Man title.
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Low and behold, an Action Shot
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Another pic of someone on a bike,
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Some memorable climbs - starting with the long haul
up Razorback, easy going then 'til the National Park, thence things got nasty in the
middle bit.
The return leg of about 18km from Avon Dam to Tahmoor, via Pheasants
Nest, with a slight downhill was delightful.
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Below 4 pics at McChucks at Picton
after 85km - seems one has to stoop low on Good Friday for a
Nosh Stop, what with our visit to another
"chain" cafe earlier
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Pics from Hornsby, St Ives, Palm
Beach, Patonga, Woy Woy, Pits climb back to Hornsby - 13 cyclists -
86km
We
lost Scott aka PatternMaker early when his rear wheel lost its freewheel,
whereupon when he pedaled the rear cassette spun but his bike stayed still. Bill aka Glasgow opted to ride back from Palm Beach. Terry aka
Navigator caught the early train from Woy Woy. The rest of us stuck
around for a feed on a glorious early Autumn morn'.
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Pedal
Power on l'eau
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