Sydney to Woolongong

Strex said:

My god how many of you ride this route .. I drove my 1964 Type 3 Volkswagen
to Bulli on Sunday morning .. I've never seen so many cyclist on the road in
my life .. I gotta get me a road bike!

Lex

Yep, Sunday morning can be huge, as I've recently found out. Normally my
three friends and I ride to and through the RNP, then catch the train
back from either Waterfall or Sutherland, to avoid the worst of the
traffic and the airport tunnel. But if you just go to Waterfall and then
turn around, you can find yourself in a bunch of 70-80 cyclists heading
back through Brighton, etc. Hats off to the Sunday morning drivers for
their patience, because it must take them ages to turn left when there
are *that* many cyclists in the left hand lane. Not that we don't have a
right to be there etc... (hope I haven't started the wrong kind of
thread here). But yes, it is a real buzz to be part of something so big
- it looks like an organised event but it's just a bunch of small groups
(like my club) that end up all clumping together.

&roo

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Strex said:

My god how many of you ride this route .. I drove my 1964 Type 3

Volkswagen

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to Bulli on Sunday morning .. I've never seen so many cyclist on the

road in

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my life .. I gotta get me a road bike!

Lex

Yep, Sunday morning can be huge, as I've recently found out. Normally my
three friends and I ride to and through the RNP, then catch the train
back from either Waterfall or Sutherland, to avoid the worst of the
traffic and the airport tunnel. But if you just go to Waterfall and then
turn around, you can find yourself in a bunch of 70-80 cyclists heading
back through Brighton, etc. Hats off to the Sunday morning drivers for
their patience, because it must take them ages to turn left when there
are *that* many cyclists in the left hand lane. Not that we don't have a
right to be there etc... (hope I haven't started the wrong kind of
thread here). But yes, it is a real buzz to be part of something so big
- it looks like an organised event but it's just a bunch of small groups
(like my club) that end up all clumping together.

It's gotten a lot bigger in the past few years I've noticed, which is a good
thing. I went out on a Sunday ride in January - I started with Randwick and
we were caught by Easts and another bunch. It ended up being well over 100
riders, perhaps as many as 150, as I could look back and forward and have
trouble seeing the ends. It didn't last long though, because someone in
Easts punctured just before Taren Pt bridge and their whole pack stopped
(which kind of surprised me).

It was nice while it lasted though. Not too many cars on Sunday morning
anyway.

Jeff