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Wednesday Night Ride - St Ives / Cascades
Terrey Hills Tavern
Getting bored with the same old night ride, need something new, well try our new and improved night ride with added sniggle and two hills for the price of one.
This ride is not for those new to MTB'ing or the unfit as it has some technical aspects and a few hills that will max out your ticker.
• We will proceed from the Tavern to the trail entrance past Forest Way.
• We will then take the "Epithany" trail to St Ives Showground.
• Cross over Mona Vale Rd to the Quarry Trail.
• (New and improved) - at the bottom we will turn left and climb the Health Trail.
Night Ride - Manly Dam plus extra's
The 1st half of the Manly Dam loop then crossing over the Parkway and riding to Forestville. After this we following the pipeline until we rejoin the Manly Dam loop. 100% legal, but there is a little road riding involved.
A touch under 15k's but will take 2 hours at night and you will need good lights.
This is a technical ride and at night it will be more difficult, so it's not for the inexperienced.
Bring a beer for post ride hydration.
Hornsby Heights/Galston Gorge training ride
Corner Somerville Road & Leonora Close, Hornsby Heights (by the small reserve). NOTE: Once you're in Hornsby town centre you've still got another 10-12 minutes drive...
My (now becoming) regular ride on the fire trails of Hornsby Heights & Galston Gorge (Quarry Road fire trail).
Looking to do this one sub 2.5 hours with minimal stops. Good 35k's of hilly firetrails (and boo hiss about 6 km of bitumen to finish)
Thursday Night Ride - something different
Terrey Hills Tavern (the usual place)
***** Wednesday's Night ride was cancelled due to the weather so whose up for the same ride on Thursday night - please either confirm or remove your star so I know who is coming ******
And now for something completely different.
Insteasd of the usual trails I'm suggesting we head off in the opposite direction and ride the sniggle running parallel to Mona Vale road to St Ives Showground and then pop over to Cascades to run down Quarry climb Lower Cambourne to Acron Oval re-entering the bush down the road to come out at Mona Vale rd to ride the sniggle back to the Tavern to rehydrate.
Andos+Hazo(+Oaks?) 6th July
Hazelbrook train station
Starting at Hazelbrook train station get the 9:58 train up to Wentworth Falls. Ride down Andos and grin like maniacs. I've not done Hazelbrook before but Carlgroover has offered to be our guide for that bit. In the unlikely event we still have the legs then we could ride down The Oaks and get the train back to Hazelbrook train station. That would make it a very full day.
Hornsby Heights/Galston Gorge (Quarry Road firetrail)
Somerville Road Hornsby Heights, corner of Leonora Close (next to the small reserve).
My (now becoming) regular ride on the fire trails of Hornsby Heights & Galston Gorge (Quarry Road fire trail).
Looking to do this one sub 3 hours with minimal stops.
Terrey Hills Training Ride - Cancelled due to Rain
Terrey Hills car park near the shops
Similar to last Thursdays ride which was a great pace and was 1hr 40min ride time. If it is drier we could do Perimeter + Long
Thursdays Ride Profile
http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/activity/5958290
Ourimbah Explore/Training
The plan is, well there is no plan. I have never been here before so this is more of an exploring ride. I ride XC so this is not a hard core down hilling adventure but always happy to have a look.
I will look at the ride database before Saturday so hopefully I will have some idea but if anyone signs up with local knowledge that would be good.
Also, while this is an exploring ride I do like to ride at a decent pace.
Terrey Hills Training Ride
Terrey Hills car park near the shops
I intend on doing Duck Hole + Centre twice or Perimeter + Long + Duck Hole. The intention is to be at a steady pace with minimal stops.
I have never done these at night so I am not sure what we can cover in 2 hours.
Edit: Time change to 7:15pm.
Terrey Hills Training Ride -CANCELLED DUE TO RAIN
Terrey Hills shops (near the Bush Fire Brigade station)
Plan on doing Perimeter, Long and Duck Hole.
This will be a moderate pace ride.