Pursuant to new clause (ix) of the "Ride Participants Liability Acknowledgment" e-mail BankTeller by 5pm this Friday if you expect to join this ride, because 'Three strikes (in any bi-month) and you are out forever', because such memory loss may evidence that you are suffering from dementia that renders you a 'physical safety risk' to other Muggs riders, and also to yourself.  Cyclists over 60 are more vulnerable to dementia or Early Onset Alzheimer's and a serious 'trauma caused spinal injury', than younger riders, so provide evidence that you can still remember the simple things, that once were simple.  This You Tube will help. 
The bicycle fatality on Kissing Point Rd, Turramurra in 2013 was due to rider error.  When you ride with Muggs, you are cognizant that you might end the ride in a hearse bound for a morgue or in an ambulance to RNSH Spinal Unit, as a few Muggs have (not limited to Helga, Ian, The Whippet, Guy aka Lawyer).

8:35am Sunday, 2 July '17 - Hornsby station Jersey St carpark for Quatre Montagnes 1st Leg to Mt White Village Store, Mt White from 10:15am
+   Return via PitS to Hornsby  -  ETR 1:05pm  -  71km
+   OR  return via Berowra Waters, Andy's Cafe, Nth Galston & Galston Gorge  -  87.7km  -  ETR 2:05pm

Ride Organiser, Phil Johnston aka Bank Teller  0434 715.861 [1st Acceptor], Jane aka Neo-Luddite [3rd Acceptor], Jean aka ChiliDog [4th Acceptor], are starting from Hornsby @ 8:35am.

 Ron aka Draughtsman, Chris aka Recalcitrant BankTeller [6th Acceptor] Bill aka Glasgow [3rd Responder], (unless he gets seconded into family b-b-q) Tony aka Publican [6th Responder],    John aka L'Etape, George aka Englishman David aka TreeHugger, John aka Auckland, , 
APOLOGIES:
John aka Auckland is on 4 weeks leave in NZ, and plans to ride with Muggs upon his return.

Pete aka CampyAficinado is an 11th hour drop-out as wife, Coralie, who must be obeyed, has seconded Pete to attend a family 'din dins'.

If you think you are >80% of joining us, contingent upon being greeted by a fine morn', can you e-mail Scribe, and he will add ya moniker above.  If an 11th hour impediment 'pops-up', No Worries.

1st Leg:  Hornsby station Jersey St carpark N/W side of station due Nth to Mt White Village Store, Mt White - 35km -  100 min

8:35am rollout for 1st Nosh Stop (30 min) from 10:15am. 

2nd Leg:  Mt White to Andy's Cafe, Nth Galston  -  38.3km - 130 min (agg 73.3km)

10:45am:

South down Old Pacific H'way for 24km to Berowra

R into Berowra Waters Rd for 6km to Berowra Waters ferry and 1st Sag Stop (10 min) waiting for Ferry

Ahead scaling to 3.5km to Koppers Log KOM at Berrilee

Ahead along for 6.8km to Andy's Cafe, Nth Galston for 2nd Nosh Stop (25 min) from 12:55pm.

3rd Leg:  Andy's Cafe, Nth Galston to Hornsby Heights Bus Shelter - 10.7km - 30 min (agg 84km)

1:20pm:
Sth 4km along Galston Rd to Galston Roundabout
Left East 4.6km dropping to Galston Gorge timber bridge
Ahead climbing 3.3km to Hornsby Heights Bus Shelter 2nd Sag Stop (5 min) arriving 1:50pm.

4th Leg:  Hornsby Heights Bus Shelter to Hornsby station carpark - 3.7km - 10 min (agg 87.7km)

1:55pm:
Left East 2.9km to Hookham's Cnr.

Right into Pacific Highway for 1.1km to Hornsby station carpark - ETR 2:05pm.

Last Sunday's St Ives, West Head, Church Point 'n back  -  51km -  8 riders

Bank Teller  took the below four pics of the carpark opposite Pattisons Patisserie at St Ives at midday last Sunday, 25th June, following Muggs' abbreviated ride to West Head and Church Point.  These pics evidence that the recently extended carpark off Mona Vale Rd, St Ives, had four cars parked in it.  30 of the 34 car spaces were vacant.  Why so empty, when on a Sunday morning over recent years, you couldn't previously get a parking spot in there after 8am in Winter and earlier in Summer?  Because prior to the recent redevelopment by Ku'ring'gai Council, there was no time limit on parking in this carpark on Sundays. Nowadays, following the renovations and minor extension that occurred three months ago, perhaps because the local shops complained about road cyclists clogging up the carpark on Sundays, parking is now restricted to 2 hours after 9am on Sundays. Hence, road cyclists that invariably filled it up prior to the recent refurb, cannot park their vehicle there, if their Sunday morning bicycle ride will not finish prior to 11am. 

On Sunday mornings, Bank Teller parks his Berlingo 'baguette van' in Stanley St (opposite), and evidences a lot of cars, with bicycle clamp racks fitted, similarly parked in Stanley St. and nearby Lynbara Ave.  What is the economic rational for Ku'ring'gai Council to recently extend the size of this carpark and then force road cyclists to park in nearby streets by setting a 2 hour maximum stay after 9am on Sundays?  Surely, Council could remove/amend the time limit signs on all car spaces (for Sundays), except the 10 spaces that directly affront Mona Vale Rd. 

One ponders -

(a)        the methodology that Council applied to impose the two hour time limit on Sundays after 9am for the entire 34 car spaces, because a useful off-road carpark is now unused, with many road cyclists' vehicles that used to park in it (off-the-road), now park on roadways outside houses; and 

(b)        whether when expending rate-payers monies to increase the capacity of a social utility, whether Council subsequently monitored the patronage of this utility after restricting parking on Sundays to two hours post 9am.

Bank Teller has observed this carpark (post ride between 12:15pm and 1:30pm) on the four occasions that Muggs cyclists have commenced their Sunday bicycle ride from St. Ives since the recent carpark refurb - from early April.  He has never seen more than seven vehicles in it.  On one Sunday two tow trucks were parked in it.

One of the two tow trucks referred to above in front, with the other nestled in the background

Above and below pics of two SUVs (with bicycle racks aloft) parked in Stanley St around midday on a Sunday when most of the road cyclists have finished their Sunday morning ride and vamoosed

Bank Teller   27 June '17