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Muggaccinos.com
The Bullsheet
Sunrise
6:39am
Sydney weather
forecast
Rollout by 8:45am
Sunday, 25 July '21 -
Hornsby station Jersey St carpark for
Quatre Montagnes - 1st Leg to
Mt
White Village Store,
Mt White
arriving from
9:30am
+
Return via
PitS
to Hornsby - 70km - ETR
1:25pm
+ OR
return via Berowra Waters and Galston
- 87km - ETR 2:40pm
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WHO, WHEN, WHERE:
Ride
Organiser, Phil
Johnston aka
Bank Teller 0434
715.861 [1st Acceptor],
Pete aka CampyAficinado [2nd Acceptor],
Eric aka
PapaBear
[3rd Acceptor],
Ann
aka ToothFairy
[4th Acceptor],
Chris aka Recalcitrant BankTeller [5th Acceptor],
John aka EarlyRetiree
[6th Acceptor],
George aka Englishman
[7th Acceptor]
are starting from
Hornsby station Jersey St carpark.
Phil
Johnston aka
Bank Teller is
sneaking off 10 mins early @ 8:35am, 'cause he lasts longer when not chasing
ToothFairy. Faster riders will start after 7:45am.
George et al are departing Hornsby 8am.
,Ron aka Draughtsman,
John aka
L'Etape,
George aka Englishman
David aka TreeHugger,
Jane aka
Neo-Luddite
Bill aka
Glasgow,
John aka Auckland
Jean aka
ChiliDog
Tony aka Publican,
APOLOGIES:
If you are >80% confident 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.
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Nosh Stops:
1st
Mt
White Village Store,
Mt White,
Mt White
2nd
Andy's Cafe, Nth Galston
King of the Mountain
climbs:
1st
Cherro Point Rd to 15m past Mt White sign 7.55km
2nd
Berowra Waters to
Berrilee
3.50km 3rd
Galston Bridge to Hornsby Heights Bus Stop 3.2km |
1st Leg:
Hornsby
station Jersey St carpark N/W side of station due Nth to
Mt
White Village Store,
Mt White - 35km - 110 min
8:45am rollout for
1st
Nosh Stop (30 min) from
10:35am.
2nd Leg: Mt
White to
Galston Village shops
- 43km - 140 min (agg 73.3km)
11:05am:
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 9km to Galston Village shops
for
2nd Nosh Stop (25 min) from 1:25pm.
3rd
Leg: Galston shops
to
Hornsby Heights Bus Shelter
- 10.7km - 30 min (agg 84km)
1:50pm:
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
2:20pm.
4th
Leg:
Hornsby Heights Bus Shelter
to
Hornsby station
carpark - 3.7km - 15 min (agg 87km)
2:25pm:
Left East 2.9km to Hookham's
Cnr.
Right into Pacific Highway for 1.1km to
Hornsby station
carpark
- ETR 2:40pm.
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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 hombres, 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, 'cause you will come down hard, like many before you
if you try to cycle over any of the longitudinal steel beams.
Ø Descend Les Montagnes
real slow on wet or damp roads.
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.
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
Ø
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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Last
Sunday, Tallawong to Windsor, thence a meander on backroads to Richmond and
return back to Windsor, thence on to Rouse Hill light rail - 57km - 4 crew
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Alas, our cycle thru the flatlands of Cornwallis got interrupted
due to a nasty/dangerous/scary bridge collapse, which after extensive exploring
and investigating by
CampyPete
as to how we could progress to the
other side past that big yellow crane,
we opted to back-track to Richmond on a 'safe route'. Thence, we cycled
the main drag back to Windsor and onto to Rouse Hill light rail.
Sunday, Galston, Halcrows
Rd, Sackville Ferry ride, Wilberforce, Windsor,
Annangrove Rd back to Galston - 83km - 3 riders
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Click on above 'Relive' image to view last Sunday's
Galston, Halcrows rd, Sackville Ferry, Wilberforce, Windsor, Annangrove Rd, to
Galston - 83km in Google Earth.
Then click on the 'Right Arrow' therein.
Then click on:
View interactive route >
to evidence a further application of Google earth
As
Gomer Pyle would say, Goooolly !!!
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Above two pics were snapped by Muggs back-up photographer,
ToothFairy
Sunday St Ives, Duffy's Forest, Bayview Marina, back up McCarrs Creek Rd to St
Ives - 58km - 4 riders
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Sunday
St Ives carpark for "Brekkie at Bayview Marina
-
optional
Brunch at Akuna Bay"
-
92.6km - 3 riders
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ToothFairy, Trumpeter and
BankTeller down at Bayview Marina on a veritable corker of a morn'
St Ives, Illawong Bay, Akuna Bay, West Head, Church Point 'n back -
74km - 7 riders
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Kevin aka TexDubbo,
Justine aka Trumpeter
Alan
aka PharLap
Bill aka
Glasgow,
Pete aka CampyAficinado,
Ann
aka ToothFairy and
Bank Teller
The lass who took these pics warned that they would be glary
due to the bright sunshine behind. BankTeller suggested that
she take a pic from the second branch behind, but she wasn't enthused.
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St Ives, West Head, Church Point 'n back -
51km - 8 riders
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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 largely unused after 11am on Sundays. Because
the majority of road cyclists do not finish their Sunday ride until well
after 11am. Many road cyclists' vehicles that used to park off-the-road, now park on roadways outside
houses as evident in the below pics; 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.
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One of the two tow trucks referred to above in
front, with the other nestled in the background
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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
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Bank Teller
took the below ten pics (from 8:35am on Sunday, 16th July in Stanley Street) of
predominantly road cyclists' vehicles that previously parked in the Mona Vale Rd
carpark (opp.
Pattisons Patisserie)
which now has a two hour parking limit after 9am.
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Bank Teller 17 July '17 |
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