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Sunday, 6 July, Yarramalong Manor for lunch - "Iron Horse” home from Wyong:

*    8:30am - Hornsby - 93km - ETR 3:36pm

*    8:40am - Berowra - 81.5km - ETR 3:25pm

*    Or cycle back from Mt White - 71km - ETR 12:20pm

  • Scribe's challenge to scale 2.9km 70 gradient, precipitous Bumble Hill

  • Ride Leader:  Phil Johnston - 9498.3684 hm

  • Bring your mobile if it is handy

  • Hardcopy these directions and bring on Sunday

  • Cycle two abreast at own risk.  Keep well to LHS

  • Get off the road at Sag Stops

  • Maintain your membership of Bicycle NSW for $20m Public Liability cover in case another Mugg sues your arse for riding negligence

 

Snapshot:
With no track work on the Wyong line, park at Hornsby 
station car-park [80m Nth of Railway Hotel in Jersey St - N/W side of Hornsby station] rollout by 8:30am passing Berowra station at 8:55am.  But if commencing from Berowra be rolling by 8:45am.  Nosh Stops at Mt White, Peat's Ridge and Yarramalong Manor, to catch an All Stops train home from Wyong at 2:55pm (3:55pm) - ETR 4:06pm (5:06pm).  Or an Express at 2:37pm (3:37pm) returns to Hornsby at 2:36pm (3:36pm).  
Route is due N up the Old Pacific H’way, so if you're slow, start from 8:20am.

 

1st Leg:  Hornsby to Mt White - 35.5km - 82 min

Park in Hornsby street side car-park 80m Nth of Railway Hotel in Jersey St - N/W side of Hornsby station. 

Rollout by 8:30am, -

  • Nth up Jersey St for 200m,

  • L for 20m to traffic lights;

  • R onto Old Pacific Highway for 35km, passing Berowra station at 8:55am, for 1st Nosh Stop (30 min) at Mt White Village Store from 9:50am.

 

2nd Leg:  Mt White to Peats Ridge - 21km - 57 min

Depart Bikie Hangout by 10:20am -

  • Nth along Old Pacific H'way for 6.2km;

  • L into Peats Ridge Rd for 15km continuous, gradual climb for Sag Stop (15 mins) at Midcoast Petroleum, Peats Ridge from 11:20am.

 

3rd Leg:  Peats Ridge to Yarramalong Manor - 17km - 55 min

After re-mounting at 11:35am, -

  • Nth along Peats Ridge Rd for 300m;

  • L into George Downs Drive and continue 8.7km NNW, crossing Wisemans Ferry Rd at Central Mangrove;

  • R into Springs Rd for a Sag Stop (3 min), thence 2.5km East twds Bumble Hill, then it becomes Greta Rd for 2km up Bumble Hill, then 3.4km descend Bumble Hill cautiously;

  • R for 60m to 2nd Nosh Stop (50 mins) for brunch from 12:30pm at delightful, serene Yarramalong Manor.

  • Scribe has thrown down the gauntlet, challenging hill climbers to scale the humongous 70 gradient  2.9km precipitation to KOM of Bumble Hill, the most notorious hill in the Commonwealth Bank Cycle Classic, thereby adding 5.8km to the ride

 

4th Leg: Yarramalong Manor to Wyong station - 18.8km - 50 min
By 1:20pm 18.8km flat/fast hit-out E along Yarramalong Rd into Wyong, arriving by 2:10pm to catch ($7.80 fare) –

  • 2:55pm All-stops (or 3:55pm) 71 min to Hornsby 4:06pm (or 5:06pm) or

  • 2:37pm Express (or 3:37pm) 59 min to Hornsby 3:36pm (or 4:36pm).

 

Scribe’s rap-up of Sunday, 29 June, Tour de Windsor - 97km

What a bunch of weak-arse, lily-livered, piss-weak, snow flakes half the crew turned out to be today, just because of a few showers o'nite.  We only had nine starters - Koala Bear, Bank Teller, MapMan, Malvern Star, Whippet, Nurse Karen, ToothFairy, Pacific Pete 'n Tornado.  But brother, they enjoyed 'emselves, what with blue skies 'n sunshine, and a marvelous route via Brown's Water Hole, M2, Marayong, Riverstone, Vineyard 'n Mulgrave to Historic Thompson's Square arriving approaching ten 'n half bells.

After hotish pizza 'n good drugs at Aldos, the team returned via Cattai Ridge Rd, including that dreaded climb from the creek bed, thru Glenorie to GreenShades Galston for another caffeine fix around 1:30pm.

Approaching 3pm we said our tah tahs with the usually display of touch-touchy, warm fuzzies at Turra' car-park with Nurse Karen 'n Tornado departing in a jalopy, resplendent with rattles, funny noises 'n cobwebs; a vehicle that should be condemned by the RTA.  In contrast, Koala Bear chooffed-off in his wife's 'new pin'; a white Holden Vectra displaying a you-beaut, brand-spankers showroom glean.

It'll be interesting to read next Sunday morn' some of the notes to teacher for missing class today.  Let's hope there are some ridgy didge, bona fide, Honest Injun, on my mother's grave reasons for lots of Muggs going AWOL.  Any "I got lucky" retorts immediately qualify for exemption, but staying home to do the Squaw Chores, or sticking your noggin back under the covers, 'cause you might get wet, doesn't cut the mustard.  

Future repetitions could evidence getting drummed out of the regiment, court-martial or even the firing squad, 'cause some irresponsible recalcitrants are bringing into disrepute Muggs' ethos/credo of being uncompromising, belligerent bastards, who get their jollies from conquering hills, no matter what Sunday morn' serves-up.

NB:    The Road Rage 'idiot of the day' goes to a flea in the passenger seat of a green Falcon  KTR601 who yelled at Scribe 'n Co, and then to the Peloton, "Hey %@#wit, get off the road."   A close second was another equally dim-witted Neanderthal who muttered something akin to a few of us on our route out to Windsor.   Generations of selective in-breeding out West and shootin'-up on cheap drugs, seems to have affected some of the local populace.  

Whilst this 'implore' will likely again fall on deaf  ears, when Muggs venture into Deliverance Country, please -

  • keep well to the LHS, and 

  • ride in single file,  

cause some of those dudes are different, and they might snap, and take one of us out, especially if we are spread across/taking-up half the trail.  

Casual empiricism of road/cycle accidents suggests that the motorist invariably comes off a lot better, irrespective of whom was in the wrong.

Scribe    29 June 2003