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Menai - Early Explore
By the sports field on Old Illawarra Road, Barden Ridge.
This will be a quickish exploration ride I am trying to figure out these trails and the best way to do that is to ride them reguarly.
Route wise it will probably be all over the place at a medium to quickish pace you should expect to ride some small to medium drops and roll offs on the route there are also plenty of tricky little rocky climbs and decents all over the place a bit of rough fire trail thrown in and some nice flowing single track.
This will be a quick ride no longer than an hour and a half basically I am just going to have an explore to see what I can find.
Menai - Mid Week Night Ride
By the sports field on Old Illawarra Road, Barden Ridge.
This is a social medium paced technical single track XC style night ride on some of Sydney’s best trails.
A Dam Fine Saturday Afternoon.
King Street (near corner with Arana Street), Manly Vale. You know - outside Manly Hydraulics Lab.
I reckon it'll be just lovely to pedal around Manly Dam after I've been at work supplying the good people of the western suburbs with their bicycle needs, and I've not been here in ages. It's late so we beat the heat, yet still daylight. This is no night ride.
It'll be just two laps of the regular course then everyone can go home and be available for their preferred Saturday night activities.
Everyone's welcome. Newbies, oldies, fast, slow, girls, guys. Everyone.
Another Dam Night Ride!
King Street (near corner with Arana Street), Manly Vale. You know - outside Manly Hydraulics Lab.
Come ready for two laps of Manly Dam, or we can on the night discuss doing the legal part of Bantry Bay then back via the old folks home.
Your know the drill....Bring a beer or two for the after ride banter.
Pikey
Wiseman's Ferry fun.
Wisemans Ferry - by the East ferry crossing (parking near the kiosk in Wiseman's Ferry Park).
Ferry - Western Commission Track (WCT) = warm up fun;
WCT - junction of Great North Road (GNR) = climbing fun;
GNR - Clare's Bridge = waterbar fun;
Clare's Bridge back to junction WCT/GNR = what goes down must go up again fun;
Junction GNR/WCT - top of Shepherd's Gully = technical fun;
Shepherd's Gully - Settler's Road = downhill fun;
Settlers Road - ferry = bitumen/gravel fun;
Ferry - kiosk = pie & chips or ice cream fun.
Menai Mid Week
By the sports field on Old Illawarra Road, Barden Ridge.
Here is a real mountain bike ride in the dark with technical obstacles and nice single track come out on Wednesday night for a blast around Menai.
This is a technical ride so good lights and some competent off road night riding skills are required this will generally be a social to medium paced ride depending on who turns up but we will always wait for the slower riders on the night with that in mind you will still need a reasonable level of bike fitness so its probably not a suitable outing for absolute beginners.
Mad Dogs & Englishmen
King Street (near corner with Arana Street), Manly Vale. You know - outside Manly Hydraulics Lab.
As discussed - I have to be in Manly earlier in the morning so will take the bike and head to the Dam for few laps after. Plus - Blondie has organised a Cascades/Wildflower-ish ride for the weekend so best to skip there.
Don't mind moving the ride 'til a bit later to accommodate riding buddies but think I may be there even sooner and have done a lap before midday anyhow. Depends how things go.
Perhaps we should also go over to Bantry Bay and ride down the firetrail to the water... you know - just for fun 
Menai Mid Week - We Might Get Lost In The Dark Ride
By the sports field on Old Illawarra Road, Barden Ridge.
Here is something new for this year a regular Wednesday night ride in Menai.
Having only ridden here a few times I don’t really know my way around to well yet but it is fantastic during the day so should be a blast in the dark and something different and a bit more challenging than Terry Hills or Manly.
Manly at 9:00 am
Meeting at the Public school parking.
Cascades Ride - YUK!
End of Wyatt Ave, Belrose - this is on the East side of Garigal National Park.
Am planning a ride through Cascades - NOT my favourite track but at the moment I am working on my 'hills are my friends' relationship.
I am hoping Paul comes along as I would like do to the ride from Belrose, up to St Ives Showground and back that he took me on about a year ago, I think the ride was about 30ks all up or something along those lines...
Anyway, company would be appreciated! This is social but not soooper slow - she says will full optimism!