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Sun,
21 Sept '25 - 8:15am
Hornsby
Carpark in Jersey St or
8:40am
Berowra
station carpark to
Saddles restaurant/cafe 600m past
Mt White Village Store arriving from 10:05am. (Train from Hornsby arrives Berowra
8:35am.) Matt aka MotorMan [2nd Acceptor], David aka AnotherIronman [3rd Acceptor], Jean aka ChiliDog [4th Acceptor) ACCEPTORS:
Ride
Organiser:
Phil
Johnston aka BankTeller [1st Acceptor]
starting from Berowra station at 8:40am after alighting a train at 8:35am. Matt aka MotorMan [3rd Acceptor], Eric aka PapaBear [2nd Acceptor] and Ann aka ToothFairy [4th Acceptor] plan to start from Berowra station carpark around 8:40am. George aka Englishman Terry aka Navigator and Chris aka RecalcitrantBankTeller miom
If you think you are >80% of joining us, please e-mail Scribe and he will add ya in the above. 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 Hardcopy these directions and bring on Sunday Ø If you are unfamiliar, study your street directory (or Google Maps) 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 -
(iii) cycling too fast on a wet downhill where
the coefficient of friction is much less, particularly at corners; or 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 -
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Cycling without Public Liability cover is as silly
as driving without 3rd Party - 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 gapsØ 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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Sunday, 7 Sept '25 - Hornsby to Estuary Cafe, Kangaroo Point, Brooklyn 'n back via Kalkari Reserve- 54km - 5 riders
Sunday, 21 July - Berowra to Brooklyn 'n back - 31km - 2 riders
Sunday, 14 July - Hornsby to Toast, The Rooster Cafe, Cowan. Return with a Down 'n Back Up of Bobbin Head - 49km - 4 cyclists
Sunday, 21st April - Anne's ride from Round Corner Dural carpark to Macquarie Square, Windsor 'n back - 4 riders - 49km All the incriminating evidence of 'carbo-loading' and 'drug taking' at Windsor has been removed for this fake all smiles photo.
Sunday, 14 April '24 - Nth St Ives, Duffy's Forest, C/W loop of Illawong
Bay and Akuna Bay - 49km - 6 riders started, but only 5 completed due to
using re-glued punctured bicycle tubes. Sunday - 31st March - Hornsby, Berowra Waters, Galston Village 'n back to Hornsby - 42km - 2 hills - 6 riders Our scheduled ride was to start with a descent of Galston Gorge. But 'with a nip in the air' and the thickest fog since the arrival of man, we opted to ride the loop anti-C/W. Trevor aka Tornado, looking anything but a Tornado garbed in his motor bike overalls, joined us at Berowra Waters cafe.
Don't buy any food at Water Vista Cafe, Berowra Waters
(at least not on a long w'end, unless you have robbed Fort Knox beforehand.
Click on Relive to experience again last Sunday's ride. Also view an overhead experience. "Hornsby or Berowra to Glenorie Village Bakery via Berowra Waters" - 42km - 5 riders Really strange weather last Sunday, as our 21km ride to the Glenorie Village Bakery was slightly on the chilly side. Perhaps we shouldn't have chatted about so many deep and meaningful issues for close to 50 mins, 'cause when we returned to our bicycles for the return leg, the weather was oppressively warm, meaning HOT. And our 2nd Climb a LOT harder. Nth St Ives to West Head Lookout 'n back - 52km - 4 riders T'was a hot, muggy morn'. But ToothFairy didn't hold back. Trois Montagnes from Nth Turra' to Brooklyn 'n back (15th Jan '23) - 74km - 9 riders
Annual Sutherland to Nth Wollongong Lighthouse - 58km - 9 riders Wake up, Australia
Eight smiling faces. Alas, Terry aka Navigator, who started with us at Sutherland, missed this pic at our customary Nosh Stop at Ruby's Cafe on Bulli Beach Click on below 'Relive' image to view last Sunday's New Year's day 'Sutherland to Nth Wollongong' - 58km in Google Earth.
Then click on the 'Right Arrow' therein.
Then click on:
View interactive route >
and drag the route with your mouse
to evidence a further application of Google Earth
Annual Boxing Day 2022 'catch-up' ride for Recalcitrant, Erstwhile Muggs at Water Vista Cafe, Berowra Waters - the new Manager is Paris
All 8 attendees were cheerful, so Santa must've visited 'em. Annual Boxing Day 2021 'catch-up' ride for Recalcitrant, Erstwhile Muggs at Coffee Kiosk at The Estuary Waterfront Seafood Restaurant - Kangaroo Point - 9 Muggs plus a few stragglersEric aka PapaBear recommended The Coffee Kiosk at The Estuary, after our regular haunts were not opening on Boxing Day. Bereft of motor bikes and juxtaposed against the Hawkesbury River, it is a venue that Muggs will visit often.
Brief report on 2022 New Year's Day
annual
ride from Sutherland to Nth Wollongong, thence train home Pics from Hornsby to Mt White, return by Berowra Waters - 88km - 6 riders
Three pics at a verdant Mt White Road Warriors Cafe on a day when too many motor bikes passed us too close and too fast, too often.
Syd aka MotorMechanic is now the 5th Mugg rider to purchase the same flight ticket to Milan, Italy for Tour Italia this August which includes 30kgs luggage has booked a two person bungalow at same camp ground in Colfosco. Tour Italia informs that Bank Teller has sourced a second apartment in Bormio for 500 Euro for our 7 days in Bormio which can accommodate up to 4 adults. Scott aka Patternmaker will concur that it won't be available for long as it took a LOT of searching to find our first apartment 'cause we are there in peak Summer season. So if you would like to share these two apartments, thereby securing a cheap deal, and climb for up to 18 climb days with Muggs 'burgeoning contingent', contact Syd or Bank Teller pronto.Bank Teller's pics of Hornsby for Tour de Wisemans Ferry, return via Cliftonville, Stone House Café Maroota, Halcrows Rd, Cattai Ridge Rd, Galston Gorge - 118km - 12 riders
Above pics at Wisemans Ferry after 49.7km from Hornsby
Above five
pics at Maroota Stone House cafe after 71km where we got white table cloth
treatment. Bank Teller's pics of Hornsby, Mt White, Peats Ridge, Yarramalong - "Iron Horse” home from Wyong train station - 94km - 6 riders
We came across a Red Chook at Mt. White that wasn't afraid of "any dumb human"
Scribe 15 Aug '15 |
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