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Oaks Up and Back Twilight Ride
When:
Saturday, 7 February, 2009 - 18:00
Come Rain or Shine:
I'll be there, no matter what the weather.
Ride Database Entry:
The Oaks Meeting Point:
Glenbrook station carpark.
-33.769197, 150.622262 (Glenbrook Station Carpark)
Details:
With this 24hr thing on the 14th and my current state of panic about my roid boy team I am planning to ride the Oaks up and back at twilight on Saturday 7th at about 6pm (like Paul did at Christmas). I am very hopeful that someone else will come along since I don’t really want to ride it on my own and would probably get lost, even though as we all know it’s an easy trail to find…
Anyway, it won’t be a super fast ride of course (most of the roidys are competing at Lithgow the next day) but a fun one. If you do come then please bring a beer for at the end – it’s about 55ks all up I think…
Who's in?
Bernd, christine, Paul, Nic, Damien, Slowpup, georgesadlik, Bikeboy (8 riders)
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Twilight is the go that single track is so much fun in the dark.
Sunset on Saturday is at 19:56 - ie 116 minutes after we planned to set off.
If we set off 116 minutes prior to sunrise which is at 6:22 (ie at 4:26am), we'll get a similar amount of daytime, nightime and twilight riding?
And we could be home for breakfast...
And it would be a lot cooler...
And we really would be MAD!!!
Cheers
Nic
make it again to this ride. Have to go to a friend's birthday party. Bugger. Was really looking forward to this. Unless someone is going at 6am...
Bart
Damien is doing it twice that day!!!!
Bernd
No I am going to do a road ride in the morning and save the legs for the twilight up and back though I was very tempted to do it twice in a day but the boss has other ideas.
I'm out, still recovering from a chest infection, dont really fancy coughing my way up the oaks.
what about weather talk!!!!??????
too hot, too cold, too wet, too dry......
Bernd
too humid...
too dirty!
I'll be kicking it back with a few brewskies instead
Jealous?
because we will be fitter than you!! lol - sorry, had to say it! PLUS we will have our beers after the ride...
nuff said!
*aww what brought on that attack from nowhere? Sorry mate
Here I was thinking it was just a spelling mistake, you know, and "i" instead of an "a"
But then I remembered the last time I saw you and that would be wrong as well
Someone say "supersize me"?
Let there be light
Just gauging interest from anyone not currently signed in for this ride. Is there interest in catching the train up, meeting the others when the get to the top, probably around 8ish, and just enjoying the ride back down.
Was thinking about doing both but common sense is getting the better of me, I'm thinking it will be just a tad too humid to go both ways.
Let there be light
i hope this isn't a sign of your training regime...there won't be a train at Dirtworks you know...
however! even if it IS really hot at the least I would still like to ride down bloody hell, I can't imagine what has overcome me to WANT to spend my Saturday night riding - it must be the exceptional company that I will have on this ride hey!!
Stuart,
The ride up isn't hard, just a constant middle chain ring ride - great for keeping your heart rate in the aerobic zone, which burns the most calores. The ride up is were you will get all the fitness benefit. Coming down you can roll for most of it.
Christine, are we going to carry a beer up to have at the turn-around for added weight training?
what a super idea! I am all for that!
come on stuart - it will be fun - and we can practise our complaining!!
I dunno about fatter...
its a close one
Will be darn hot but shouldnt take you fast lot long. The newbie ride only took 2 hours down with many a stop and chat and repair. It's pretty cruisy ride these days. We saw a bunch of racers training in single file swapping the lead! Heavens...
I may even turn up myself, after clicking the star of course.
Clearly I was talking about training.......catching the 6.53 train up that will get in at 7.24. Should get me to the gate with enough time to down a coldie before you arrive with another one for me.
Let there be light
Will there be a chance to fill up water at the top of the Oaks before the trip back down ?
Cheers
George.
There is a tap at the top of the trail, no shops in Woodford though.
John.
Hey guys
Have just thrown my name in the hat for this ride and now it is 36 deg at home i was wondering if you lot are still going to do this ride ????
I will be there!!
Bernd
i'm in.
I will be there.
Nic and I will be there
See you there
I'll be there too... what about Blondie?
43 degrees @ 5.30pm, not too hot
nice and dry, not too humid,
no rain, not too wet or stormy,
I made up and back, not too far
my lights worked (most of the time), not too dark
Paul was with us, ok maybe a little scary
1400m vertical, not too hilly
12.30am home, ........ I leave you guessing about that one
but none of you mention the the 3kg of dust I'd eat on the way back down or
the 2KM of Bondi Beach at the top of the trail
Nice ride, thanks all
PS, or the snake I ran over on the way down, that no-one else saw....let's go to the video tape
Let there be light
What a blast.
Thanks everyone for waiting while I slowly walked off the cramps on every hill on the way back.
Thanks Groover for the magnesium, and showing us all the new steed. Hope it does you well today.
I am soooo glad my legs came back enough to ride out front on the firetrail home. The dust was insidious... I'm still coughing up lurgies.
Hope Stu caught that "snake" on video.
Great ride last night and the company was pretty good as well
, thanks Christine. The single track on the way back was awesome, good pace hey Bernd ? Cheers to Damien for showing me the way down the last section. Slowpup i've ended up with one of your homebrews... I'll give you a report when i get to sample it. Probably this afternoon.
Cheers
George
We started at 6.00pm had a ride time of 3.15 hours and finished at 11.25pm. It didn't seem like we stopped for that long along the way but we did. I suppose the visit to Carlgrover, V and Supergav and my record breaking slow puncture fix added to the time just flying by.
http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/activity/7584534
The vital stats were;
Cromer at 4.30pm = 31.5 degrees
Penrith at 5.30pm = 42 degrees.
Glenbrook at 6.00pm = 41 degrees.
Glenbrook at 12.00pm =28 degrees.
Cromer at 1.30am = 22.5 degrees
According to Motionbased the temp high was 36 degrees, low 27 degrees and average 31 degrees.
There was no direct sun, so the temperature wasn't an issue. A nice breeze going up helped cool the ride, but coming back down there was no wind at all, so it was a little more oppressive, but at the same time it was cooler.
Dust - a little rain to settle the dust would have been nice.
It took 71 minutes to get to the Heli pad and 54 minutes to the top.
Coming back down 54 minutes to the heli pad and 75 minutes to the cars. I reckon the tyre change along the sniggle must have taken 30 minutes plus to give times like that.
Thanks guys that was a thoroughly enjoyable ride. Next time if someone can work out how to get a pizza delivered to the cars for our return (to go with the beers) then it will be a perfect Saturday night.
Happy (nearly 40th) Birthday for Monday Christine.
yes, a must next time! or we could just go to John's house and see whats in the fridge!
thanks all for a gr8t ride, love the Oaks up and down, but not "Bondi beach" at the top... the rain this week will fix that.
George, thanks for the blast down the single, it was fast! Happy 40th!?!!?!! you look and "are" so much younger!
Bernd
Hi Stuart
Where is all that video footage (and presumably cycleage) you took?
Cheers
Nic
doesn't exist so he is keeping the video secret!
thank you everyone for turning up - it was one of the BEST nights - the sunset, the moon, the views, the riding, the company the IPOD!!! too good - oh and the beer of course!
had a total ball but still think Stuart could have ridden up with us...
oh! and how fun was it to pop in and see the others?
and can just be made out in the video but sadly the only decent "viewable" video was of three men, some mountain bikes, and one "very very dirty" girl lying on her back. To say I am dissapointed would be an understatement. Enough light to illuminate a small village but still not enough to get quality footage out of the camera.
As for riding up with everyone else, my ride time was 1/2 hr slower than yours, imaging having to hang around that long for me on the way up, oh that'd be almost as bad as the 1hr waiting around at the top I did before we headed down
although it was good to see "that" new bike and its very proud owner
Let there be light
... but they were made of wood.
Cheers
Nic
Cummon - where are those videos!!!
they're not worth the effort it would take to convert them and upload them.
The sniggle would have been OK if the beast wasn't shaken to a premature death in the first 2km, before I had stopped to put the camera on again.
and it was a snake, it's not my fault I was the only one with lights good enough to be able to see it, might also have helped that for the only time on the ride, I was at the pointy end. Maybe by the time you got to it, the poor thing had been BBQ so it did look like a branch.
Let there be light