15 Toughest Rides

#  Ride km    Nosh Stops  Last ridden
1 Turramurra station for Alpe de Bellbird 'n Bowen - M2 to Seven Hills train to Richmond, climb Bellbird Hill/Warks Hill Rd & Bowen Mtn, return Richmond train to Seven Hills then M2  

90

 2 monster climbs  1. Kurrajong Village
 2. Richmond train back to Seven Hills		 4 Jan '09
 
2 Cowan to Wyong via Spencer

128

 Long climb from Spencer  1. Mt White Store  2. Spencer store
 3. Yarramalong General Store 

1 Oct '07
3 Nth Turramurra Tour de Windsor via Pitt Town Rd, returning via Cattai Ridge, Berowra Waters, Bobbin Head 134 3 climbs  1.  Andy's Cafe Arcadia
 2. Thompsons Square Windsor. 
 3.  Berowra Waters		 29 Jan 06
4 Tour de Windsor via M2, Seven Hills to Windsor, then 47km Ebenezer, Sackville, Maroota, Pitt Town loop, Clarendon to Seven Hills station, then M2 131 long  1. Thompsons Square Windsor. 
 2. Pitt Town 		19 Aug 07
5 Tour de Wisemans Ferry from Hornsby, G.G, WF, Cliftonville, Maroota, G.G 118 Cliftonville climb short but steep   1.  Wisemans Ferry
  2.  Stone House Café Maroota		 30 Dec '07
6 Central Coast loop - Hornsby, St Ives, Palm Beach, Wagstaffe, McMasters, Woy Woy, Kariong, Mt White, PitS, Hornsby 133 long   1.  Palm Beach General Store
  2.  Mt White
  3.   PitS		 23 Dec '07
7

Turramurra via M2 to Richmond,Yarramundi, Springwood, Mitchells Pass to Penrith train to Seven Hills, M2, Brown's Waterfall

124
 

 Tough climb up Yarramundi  1. Springwood cafe
 3. Penrith train to Seven Hills		 9 Dec '07
8 M2, Blacktown station (or Dural via Annangrove Rd to Blacktown station), Emu Plains, Old Bathurst Rd, Blaxland, Springwood, Richmond station - M2 or Annangrove Rd home   92
 or
 91		 Old Bathurst Rd very steep  1. Blacktown train to Emu Plains
  2. Springwood Post Office cafe
 3. Richmond train to Seven Hills

24 Dec '07
9 Turramurra station cycle to Windsor via M2/M7 then follow train line, clockwise loop of Freeman's Reach, Nth Richmond, Lowlands, Cornwallis, train from Windsor to Seven Hills, cycle M2 back

110

 long  1. Bridge Cafe, Windsor
 2. Windsor cafe

4 Nov '07
10 Hornsby to Mt White, Somersby, Peat's Ridge loop 123 3 climbs  1. Mt White Store   2. Somersby Store
 3. Pie in the Sky		 14 Oct 07
11 Tour de Warragamba Dam - M2, catch Seven Hills train to Richmond.  Sth 17km along Castlereagh Rd to Penrith.  SSW 23km up Mulgoa Rd to Warragamba Dam. Return to Penrith for train to Seven Hills and cycle back to Turramurra.

109

 Climb to Warragamba Dam  1. Penrith Cafe
 2. Coffee Hut Cafe, Silverdale

9 Sept '07
 
12 Tour de Macarthur and Warragamba Dam

115

 Long 'n lumpy  1.  Cobbitty Patisserie
 2.  Picton		 25 Nov '07
 
13 St Ives to Palm Beach ferry, Wagstaffe, McMasters, Lisarow station, Brooklyn, Hornsby, St Ives 108 Killer  800m Paroo Rd climb  1. Ferry Palm Beach to Wagstaffe
 2. Train Lisarow to Brooklyn
 3. Pie in the Sky		  2 Dec '07
14

St Ives, Hornsby, Mt White, Kariong for:
Woy Woy train to Brooklyn cycle to Hornsby or Ettalong ferry to Palm Beach

96
or 122

 Long ride from St Ives  1. Mt White
 2. Woy Woy or on Ferry to Palm Beach 		13 Aug 06
15 Nth Turramurra for Cinque Montagnes anti-clockwise, Bobbin Head to Asquith, Brooklyn climb to PitS, Berowra Waters, Galston Gorge and Bobbin Head to Nth Turra' 95 5 Climbs  1. Pie in the Sky
 2. Andy's Cafe 		 7 Sept '07
16 "Tour de Avon Dam 'n back" from Birriwa Reserve Mount Annan via Camden, Razorback Mountain, Picton, Tahmoor, Bargo, Avon Dam

113

 3 Climbs   1. Tahmoor
  2. Picton 		 1 Apr '11