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Mona Vale DH
Hi Guys, Im new to the site,
I have been invited to go on a ride this Sunday with a few guys at the Mona Vale DH, just past the Bahi Temple and it apparently ends up at a girls high school. Do any of you know this track? Due to wife issues i might not be able to do it this Sunday and it sounds like a good place to start, having not done any Downhill before. So i would be keen to do it with some people who know it.
Might come along for a ride at Manly Dam tomorrow, where I can hopefully meet some of you.
Ben
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Note the date of the Manly ride is not tomorrow but Saturday week I believe.
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the track we did that day that brings you out at deep creek? won't it be really wet down there it if is?
thats the only bahai DH i know of myself..might be another one though? yeh is a totally mud bath at the bottom at the best of times!
If it is that Bahai trail, that Christine mentions, then you should be okay. It is not a fast trail. Just very slow and technical. You should be able to ride all of it. If you are at least moderately good on technical / rocky trails, it should be fine. If it was me, I would take elbow and leg armour.
Now, if this IS the Bahai trail, then you will find it extremely wet and muddy at the bottom. There are no roads here for this, so it is a case of walk your bike out to the Deep Creek fire trail. No shuttle runs I am afraid. A few hundred metres worth. Not the most enjoyable way to finish. However, like all good downhill technical trails, best to have a go and say you have done it.
Sorry, but it has to be said - the trail from MV road down into the bottom of deep creek is illegal past the end of the fire trail as it's inside National Park. That top part makes a short out and back if you happen to be passing - not worth a look otherwise.
And true, it will be a complete swamp at the bottom given all the moisture about - I'm sure there are better trails to be riding right now!
"Environmental Robin" to the rescue!!!
There are a couple of tracks that run from the back of Elanora that come out at PABS(?) High School in Warriewood. Last time I looked at those was bout 5 years ago. They were pretty overgrown, and a bit short. Though it makes for an interesting loop when you start there, head to Ingleside and do the downhill that comes out just near duckholes, do Duckholes, hang a left at the gate, head back up to Ingleside and do that run you are refering to down to deep creek then on the road back to Warriewood.
The track you are talking about starts from just near the top of the main hill (eastern side) after it leaves Mona Vale.
I haven't done it for a while (read 3 years when I had a Jekyll) and it comes out in Mater Maria HS - you need to shuttle run to the top.
Talk to a few of the boys from Supreme they know the area well and may know the fate of this track.
Does anyone know the difficulty of this track? The equivalent of?
Is there anymore detail for those none mona vale people to the where abouts of this track?
That sounds like the track for sure.
Is it anywhere as big as Oxford Falls DH?
Benny
Thanks for that, i emailed my group today. There are about 12 in the group and not one can ride tomorrow. I will be meeting one guy at Lake Parramatta at 9am tomorrow though if anyone would like to ride a new track. It is a great technical loop about 10kms.
That sounds interesting. What kind of ride is it? Where does it go? How technical is it? Can you post some details, or PM me? Cheers mate.
Its obviously at Parramatta, it runs around a lake that you actually go right past on James Ruse Drive. That is not how you get there though. I then goes over to the back of Kings School. The frist 1km is very technical, not much up or down hill just big rocks to climb and go down. The rest is pretty straight forward, although not like manly dam, no more technical than parts of that. I have changed the time with the other guy i am meeting to 8.30 and if you let me know you are coming and we will wait for you. Just look up directions to Lake Parramatta which is a popular picnic area and we leave from the car park there.
Benny
Na mate, I already have a ride planned for Saturday morning. Unless that gets called off. But I would be interested to hear about, or see, this trail. If there are rocky technical parts, it already sounds like just the ticket.
Maybe we can go another day?
PM means personal message. I was just thinking of sparing all and sundry a long winded post that might not interest them. But if it explains a new trail, there are plenty here that might like to hear about it.
I smell a trail review coming on...
Been riding Parra Lake every week for 8 weeks now
great ride through there and if you go through the fences though into Kings school there are a few nice downhills
there are so many hidden trails that after 8 weeks we still havent found them all
there are local riders there as there is a very decent hidden jump park but im yet to see any of them
the lake trails are a little rutted but with the rain it has cleaned them up alot
the park also has a very nice picnic bbq area and would be well worth a saturday morning look in
cheers
Kurt