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Muggaccinos.com The Bullsheet
Sunrise
5:47am Weather
forecast
Sunday, 12 Nov '23 - 8:35am
from
Tallawong light rail station 17.6km to Windsor via Vineyard and
Mulgrave. Thence 32km cycling 'Both
Sides of the Hawkesbury River to/from Richmond' traffic-less ride.
Thence 17.6km retrace back to Tallawong light rail on
quiet roads.
67km route ETR
Tallawong station 12:40pm
(Light rail train departs Chatswood station Platform 3 at 7:57am
arriving Tallawong 8:33am - 36 mins trip)
PLEASE REVIEW THE 2ND LEG LISTED BELOW AND THE ROUTE MAP |
WHO, WHEN, WHERE:
Ride
Organiser, Phil
Johnston aka
Bank Teller 0434
715.861 [1st Acceptor],
David aka Once-an-Ironman [2nd Acceptor],
Eric aka
PapaBear
[3rd Acceptor],
Ann
aka ToothFairy
[4th Acceptor],
John aka Auckland
[5th Acceptor],
David aka TreeHugger
[6th Acceptor],
Jean aka ChiliDog [7th Acceptor] are starting from
Tallawong light rail station
at 8:35am.
,Ron aka Draughtsman,
John aka
L'Etape,
Jane aka
Neo-Luddite
Bill aka
Glasgow,
Jean aka
ChiliDog
Tony aka Publican,
,
,
,
John aka EarlyRetiree
[6th Acceptor],
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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1st Leg:
Tallawong light rail station to
Macquarie Square
Windsor,
via Vineyard and Mulgrave train stations
- 17.6km - 50 min
8:35am rollout
of station
* R
into Schofields Rd,
* R
into Tallawong Rd,
* L into
Guntawong Rd,
* R into
Clarke St,
* Ahead
leftish into Edmund St,
* L into
Crown St,
* R into
Riverstone Pde thru Vineyard and Mulgrave train stations
for
1st
Nosh Stop at Macquarie Square,
Windsor (30 min) from
9:25am.
![](../../Rides_Stuff/22_Sunday_rides/maps/Tallawong/Tallawong_to_Windsor,_via_Railway_Pde,_Vineyard,_Mulgrave-17,6km.jpg)
2nd Leg:
9:55am from
Macquarie Square
Windsor
cycling 'both sides of the
Hawkesbury River'
to/from SthWest Richmond grasslands,
returning back to Windsor
- 32km - 85 min (agg 49.6km)
Dir |
Road name |
Distance |
Next road |
L |
Bridge St |
0.3 |
Freemans Reach Rd |
A |
Freemans Reach Rd |
7.5 |
Hibberts Lane |
R |
Hibberts Lane |
1.9 |
Kurmond Rd |
L |
Kurmond Rd |
1.8 |
Terrace Rd |
L |
S/W on Terrace Rd |
7.0 |
Bells Line Rd/Kurrajong Rd |
L |
Bells Line of Rd/Kurrajong Rd |
1.7 |
Old Kurrajong Rd |
L |
Old Kurrajong Rd |
1.2 |
Triangle Lane |
L |
Triangle Lane |
1.2 |
Powells Lane |
R |
Powells Lane |
0.3 |
Cornwallis Lane |
L |
Cornwallis Lane |
1.6 |
Cornwallis Rd |
R |
Cornwallis Rd |
7.7
|
Greenway Cres |
L |
Greenway Cres |
0.3
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Moses St |
L |
Moses St |
0.3
|
The Terrace |
A |
The Terrace |
0.7
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Baker St |
R |
Baker St |
70m |
George St -
The Bridge Cafe |
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32km
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2nd Nosh Stop (25 min) from 11:20am
back at Windsor.
3rd
Leg: 11:45am from Windsor back to Tallawong train
station by
reversing the above 1st Leg
- 17.6km - 55 min (agg 67km)
- ETR Tallawong 12:40pm.
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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's meander from
Ayres
Rd/Mona Vale Rd, Nth St Ives,
to
Brekkie
at
Flying
Fox Cafe, Mona Vale.
Thence,'Home James and Don't Spare the
Horses'
Last Sunday Hornsby to Mt White 'n back - 70km - 7 riders (George and Chris
cycled 100km starting/finishing Nth Turramurra. Eric cycled 100km from/to
his St Ives mansion.) the rest of us were more than happy with 70km with
two climbs
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Pete was in the way of PapaBear in the final above pic at
PitS. At least that is what the photographer opines.
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Click on above 'Relive' image to view last Sunday's
Hornsby to Mt White 'n back via PitS - 75km in Google Earth.
Then click on the 'Right Arrow' therein.
Then click on:
View interactive route >
to evidence a further application of Google Earth
Sunday, Galston, Halcrows rd, Sackville Ferry ride, Wilberforce, Windsor,
Annangrove Rd back to Galston - 83km - 3 riders
![](../2101/GalstonSackvilleFerryWindsorAnnangroveRd,.jpg)
![](../2101/Relive_31-Jan-21.jpg)
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.
![](../../Rides_Stuff/Ride_Start_locations/Car_Parks/St%20Ives/20170716_083319.jpg)
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Bank Teller 17 July '17 |
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