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Sunday, 27 Oct '24 - 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], Eric aka PapaBear [2nd Acceptor], Terry aka Navigator [3rd Acceptor], Matt aka MotorMan [4th 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:

Ann aka ToothFairy is hiking the Abel Tasman trail in Tasmania.

David aka Once-an-IronMan - a late Sat night scratching.

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.

1st Leg: Tallawong light rail station to Macquarie Square Windsor, via Vineyard and Mulgrave train stations - 17.6km - 50 min

8:35am rollout of Tallawong 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.

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	Moses St
L	Moses St	0.3	The Terrace
A	The Terrace	0.7	Baker St
R	Baker St	70m	George St Windsor - The Bridge Cafe
		32km

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.

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 (i.e.. 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 (i.e. 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"

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

Pete was in the way of PapaBear in the final above pic at PitS. At least that is what the photographer opines.

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

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 !!!

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

Sunday St Ives carpark for "Brekkie at Bayview Marina - optional Brunch at Akuna Bay" - 92.6km - 3 riders

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

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.

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 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.

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 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.

Bank Teller 17 July '17