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The Bullsheet
Sunrise 5:37am
Sunday, 2 Dec '12 - "Brunch at Warriewood" -
return
via Wakehurst Parkway
* 6:35am from
Hornsby Jersey St carpark
- 113km
- ETR Hornsby 1:00pm
* 7:00am
rollout from
St Ives
carpark
- 95km
- ETR St Ives 12:10pm
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WHO, WHEN, WHERE
Ride
Organiser: Phil Johnston
aka BankTeller
0434
715.861
John aka Auckland,
Pete aka
CampyAficionado,
David aka
CricketTragic,
Jean aka
ChiliDog,
Jane aka
NeoLuddite
and
Eric aka PapaBear are starting by 7:00am
from
St Ives carpark. Syd aka MotorMechanic is
joining us at Terrey Hills Fruit Barn.
Bill aka Glasgow is
riding from his Pennant Hill 'digs' to the St Ives start.
BankTeller
will start from Hornsby if anyone else wants to.
Apologies:
John aka BakerBoy
is camping with his wife at South West Rocks for next two Sundays.
Mervyn aka
AnotherBusDriver is 'on the job'.
If you think you are 80% confident to start,
subject to a fine morning, please e-mail
BankTeller
and he will add you above.
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SNAPSHOT
Rollout from
Hornsby Jersey St carpark
to
St Ives carpark, Terrey Hills, Duffy’s Forest, West Head (Sag Stop – pack nibbles),
Church Point, Warriewood (Nosh Stop).
Return Wakehurst Parkway and Forest Way.
SagStop:
1.
Terrey Hills
Vale Fruit Barn
(5 min)
NoshStops:
1st:
West Head
Lookout (15 min)
2nd:
Sunrise Cafe overlooking
Warriewood Beach (35
min)
3rd:
Pattisons Patisserie
(20 min)
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1st Leg:
Hornsby Jersey St carpark to
St Ives carpark - 9km -
25 min
6:35am
cycle:
Early on Sunday morn' the following route
has low road traffic which
follows the street signs to St Ives:
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Left down Pacific H'way for 800m
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Left into Edgeworth David Ave to F3 Overpass for 2km
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Ahead into Junction Rd for 1.3km
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Right into Eastern Rd for 700m
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Left into Burns Rd for 2.2km,
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Ahead into Killeaton St for 2.3km,
* Right into Memorial Ave
for 500m,
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Left into Mona Vale Rd for 100m.
2nd
Leg: St Ives carpark
via Duffys Forest to
West Head Lookout - 41km - 105 min
(agg 50km from Hornsby)
Depart St Ives car-park 7:00am:
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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;
-
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);
-
"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;
-
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 Lookout.
Pack lots of nibbles,
‘cause we take our
Sag Stop (15
min) from
8:45am
for a snack and
a gawk at the majestic, shimmering blue
peninsula.
3rd
Leg: West
Head to Warriewood - 28km - 70 min (agg 78km from Hornsby, agg 69km from St
Ives)
9:00am:
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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],
-
L
into
McCarrs Creek Rd for 8.8km past Church Point, Bayview Marina to
Cabbage Tree Rd,
-
R into Cabbage Tree Rd
with Bayview Golf Course on
LHS;
-
Ahead
for 1.5km leads into Samuel St and crosses
Mona Vale Rd at roundabout,
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Ahead into Ponderosa Pde veering Left
becoming McPherson St for 2km to
Warriewood Rd
-
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
for Nosh Stop (35 min)
at the
Sunrise Cafe
from 10:10am.
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.
4th
Leg:
Warriewood
beach cafés via Wakehurst Parkway to St Ives - 26km - 85 min
(agg 104km from Hornsby, agg 95km from St Ives)
10:45am -
R
into
Malcolm St for 50m;
5th Leg:
St Ives to Hornsby - 10km (agg 114km) -
30 min
- ETR Hornsby 1pm
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12:30pm
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Mona Vale Rd
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0.9
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Pentecost Ave
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R
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Pentecost Ave
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2.0
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Ku'ring'gai
Ave
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A
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Boomerang St
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0.7
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Eastern Rd
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R
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Eastern Rd
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0.7
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Bangalla St
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L
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Bangalla St
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1.0
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Millewa St
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R
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Millewa St
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1.4
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F3 Overpass
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A
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Alexandra Pde
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1.5
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Pattisons Ave/Leonard St
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L
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Pattisons Ave/Leonard St
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0.5
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Pacific H'way
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R
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Pacific H'way
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0.8
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Coronation St
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R
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Coronation St
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0.3
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Jersey St
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L
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Jersey St
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0.1
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Hornsby car park
- ETR 1pm
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Risk
Warning
1st Cycling Blackspot Warning.
The road section approx 300m prior to the West Head Lookout veers
awkwardly to the right. It is narrow with very little camber to
facilitate cyclists holding the narrowing roadway.
Bank Teller has documentary evidence of 6 bad accidents when
inexperienced cyclists descended that road section too fast and spin off
the LHS. One cyclist remained in a comma for 3 months.
Another cyclist who was heli-lifted out on Sunday 9 Nov remained in the
Spinal Unit at RNSH - Bank Teller visited him on Sat 2 Jan
'10.
Descend to the West Head Lookout slowly and warn others to do likewise.
RTA, which is responsible for West Head Rd, has been negligent in ignoring
Bank Teller's three letters
dated 11 Jan '08,
8 Feb '08 and 29 March ’08 and
Annexure
to -
a) straighten approx 200m of that road
section by widening on the RHS,
b) build up the camber on the LHS, and
c) provide dedicated "Cyclists
Descend Slowly"
signage at the top of the descent.
2nd
Cycling Blackspot Warning
Descend to Illawong Bay cautiously, as a few too many cyclists who were
going too fast have hit The Wall, incl Siggy aka Smiling
Assassin who got carted out in an Ambo.
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.
Ø
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
Ø
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
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Cycling with
Muggs is predicated upon notifying
Bank Teller if you
materially disagree with any clause(s) in Muggaccinos'
"Ride Participants Liability Acknowledgment"
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Thumbnail pics ('cause we got to think "small
is OK") of Muggs' involvement with 2012 Critical Mass ride over the
Sydney Harbour Bridge to North Sydney 'noodle mart' to protest humans
trashing our planet for future generations by gouging everything we can get our
hands on - Don't worry
about the cows farting, 'cause "UN
warns permafrost is melting" which will unleash massive methane
deposits
Colourful pics of Critical Mass's 2012 ride from Hyde Park to Nth Sydney 'noodle
mart'
Scribe's rap-up of
Quatre
Demi
Montagnes clockwise
- 7 crew - 75km
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Whilst awaiting the low fare Berowra Water's
ferry, some of our PetrolHeads may have been overjoyed at the sight
of about 30 old MGs, ostensibly "Bs", but with a sprinkling of 'As" and the
older 'TFs'. Most of them were driven by 'Hairy Old Men'.
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Scribe
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