Sunday 8:40am, 9 July '17 – Trois  Montagnes (anti-clockwise) - 1st Nosh Stop Red Herring Café, Brooklyn at 9:55am:

200m NW of Hornsby station from 8:40am  -  75km  -  ETR 12:50pm

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 to turn right at Berowra Waters Rd to Nth Galston for lunch at Andy's Cafe.  Return via Galston Gorge and Bobbin Head.
SagStops:
2nd      Berowra Waters punt             -   11:20am    (10 min)

NoshStop:

1st       Red Herring Café                     -    9:55am    (35 min)

2nd     Andy's Cafe, Nth Galston         -  11:50am    (25 min)

Rollout 8:40am 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.

Pass Berowra station 9:10am, Cowan station 9:20am and Pie in the Sky Cafe at 9:40am.  After passing Pie in the Sky Cafe descend almost to water level, R turn into Brooklyn Rd for 3.2km for 1st Nosh Stop (35 min) at Red Herring Café, Brooklyn from 9:55am. 

10:30am return for 11km and R into Berowra Waters Rd for flattish section before descending to picturesque Berowra Waters 11:20am for 2nd Sag Stop (10 min) during ride on the punt. 

Or continue south and return to Hornsby car-park [52km]. 

After cycling thru rural Berrilee and Arcadia, take 2nd Nosh Stop (25 min) at Andy's Cafe Arcadia from 11:50am.

12:15pm - 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

Right into Pacific Highway

Left into Jersey St to Hornsby car-park - ETR 12:50pm

Risk Warning

Ø   Motorbike aficionados regularly station cameraman and/or camerawomen at the acute left hand bend about half way up the ascent to Pie in the Sky to photograph motor bikers on extreme angles whilst taking that corner.  Motor bikers often become affected by the hubris of riding rapidly thru that corner, in the company of their motor bike hombrés, and continue to break the 60km p/h speed limit all the way to the Pie in the Sky apex.  Too often, too many motor bikers pass road cyclists within the 1 metre rule.  The likelihood of being hit by a motor biker travelling at 80km ph or faster is relatively high.

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

Hornsby to Mt White 'n return - 70km -  3 riders

Jane has found a friend

The familiar Winter open fire with blue/grey smoke on upper LHS drifting upwds

A long queue in Road Warriors Cafe