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