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Knapsack Sunday Morning
NB: Originally posted elsewhere on the Global Riders Network and appears via syndication.
When:
Sunday, 23 January, 2011 - 08:45
Duration:
2 hours
Come Rain or Shine:
If it's raining, I won't be there.
Ride Database Entry:
Knapsack Reserve Meeting Point:
Glenbrook Oval, Hare St, Glenbrook NSW. Near the skate park. Ride down Moore Street to the start of trail that leads into the main park around the gate.
We ask visitors to please park here to not affect the residents. Plenty of parking plus amenities.
-33.764197,150.620325
Details:
I can't make it to the Saturday morning ride due to work commitments, so I'll be heading out Sunday instead. Feel free to join me..
Who's in?
rgoodwill, Pedalgogy, Chuck, Andrei74
What Happened?
Were you there and have a story to tell?
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Guys,
Is it cool if we all meet in the car park across from the Glenbrook shops, instead of the one suggested by the site.
Cheers
Hmm, now that Ian's decided to post up a Mt York ride, I'm undecided. Mt York's 45mins closer, so that means I get to sleep in a bit, and go for a ride...
I will be there if this is on. Robert Newington
May be around but might be earlier and head to Winnee Cooper Avenue later to get some km's and a different perspective for a change.
Thanks guys, that was excellent.
I posted the GPS log if anyone's interested:
http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=...
Thanks for the ride today guys.
Also, your title on the Everytrail is wrong. It was a BMORC ride!
Here's what we did if you didn't have a mechanical or a flat.
http://www.mytrails.com.au/trails_osm.php?tid=10...
Can you believe Andrei had another pinch flat? Well he did.
Ah ok. Now fixed.
By the way, I peeled a leech off my ankle back at the Glenbrook shops. He got me good, right through my sock. I didn't even feel the sucker.
How funny is that, especially after our "there are no leeches at knapsack" talk
They must like the blue blood from the city.
Hey Steve, how long did it take to get to Werrington?
The other week I had 3 leeches on one ankle and 1 on the other. My friend had one working his way up the shoe. And just the other day I seen one on the track. Im starting to think about packing packet salt in my bag now. They were not easy to get off the skin.
I heard in the last few days something about salt causing Leeches to regurgitate back into the skin, yuk!
Removing leeches isn't hard to do, but should be done in a way that is safest. It isn't advisable to use salt, heat or flame, or other products on the leech (which are very common methods) because they will usually vomit into the wound and then detatch. This can cause an infection and make the wound worse, as well as increasing the chance of disease.
Locate the head. The head of the leech is the end with a sucker attached to the wound. To locate it, figure out which is the narrow end. This will be the head.
Slide the sucker off. Using your fingernail or another thin flat object, quickly slide it under the sucker of the leech. This will detatch the leech without causing it to vomit.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sv%C3%B8mmen...
Or you can just wait and let it drop off itself when it has finished feasting on your blood!
Yeah that happened to me after the December Knapsack ride. I only noticed after walking around Leura Mall and spotted my sock and shoe was soaked with sticky blood. Sucker must have been on there for 2 hrs or so and probably fell off among the Sunday tourists.
Better to notice and flick them off.