Dulwich Hill Bicycle Club

Leave: Mick Mazza's 6am
Route: RNP - Waterfall in, Audley out. Option to add the big dipper on the way out
Hosts: EMT & Mikebytes
Pace: C28
Coffee shop: TBD, must be one open in Marra, any of the Marra-villians know?
Ride time: About 1/2 hour longer than Waterfall
Water: Sutherland Servo
Food: Please take a small amount of food, the distance is a little past most glycogen limits

Sweet, I am in, will meet you at Brighton.

Count me in for this one

Count me 90% likely to be in, depending on xmas day festivities...

Marrickville Road Cafe has just told me they will be closed on Boxing Day.

Best wishes from them to all of us this Season.

Marrickville Road Cafe has just told me they will be closed on Boxing Day.

Best wishes from them to all of us this Season.

Thanks Pete - I think we may have to go without. But I'm glad they are having a break given it is a family business so we shouldn't feel hard done by.

What's the point in riding if there's no coffee?!

Won't be able to make this one. I'll be on the Central Coast.

Might ride to Wollombi that day...

My brother is bringing his coffee machine to Geroa.........

Vic, i could be tempted by wollombi...

I have a solution if no suitable coffee shop is found

(Beer)

(Beer)

I'm in.

Paul

Merry Christmas all see you in the morning

Have a great ride. I'm stuck in the middle of a cyclone in Nth QLD.

Boo. Hope you're ok Karzie, and Boo. I wish I could come, but I've got to stay home and organise for a lunch. Enjoy your golden refreshments ladies and gentlemen!

hmmm saw the rain and going back to bed...

Rain put me off...perhaps tomorow the sun will shine!

Well, we got to MM at 6am and 7 of us turned up with an ominous cloudmass to the south west. So we decided to head north, rang Hung and told him we wouldn't be heading past Brighton and went on and over the Harbour Bridge. Somewhere around Mosman we started getting more rain and with it a realisation that we weren't going to be able to out-ride the approaching rain. So we decided to go to Manly, get a coffee and get the ferry home. All good until Circular Quay where we got 2 flats before Darling Harbour and one group split to go over the Anzac Bridge and the rest of us headed towards Tempe. Around Redfern I felt that flood of cold water into my sox that indicates maximum saturation has been achieved.

A good day to have stayed in bed, not really the training I wanted BUT an excellent social ride and we found a nice (organic) coffee shop in Manly and it's always fun to go on the Manly Ferry.

I must admit as I rolled over in bed with the sound of rain on the roof, I didn't feel I was missing much. Slept in all the way to 10.30.

Here's the fine ladies and gentlemen at Manly

So that's what happened! Just got on the web since The Boxing Day Debacle.

My Boxing Day was different. Looking out the window 5.30am. Still, grey, cool, perfect.
Out the door 5.45am aiming for Mick Mazzaa's, the wind picks up and the rain starts. Oh well, it's still nice and cool.
Halfway to Mick's, getting wet, realise I've left my phone behind. Buggery. Need it today for meeting up for lunch with Michele in Kiama.
Head back home, spend an unsuccessful 10 minutes looking for the phone.
Now 6.15am, have to go. Down the Princess past the Ikea site, wait on the corner for the Boxing Day Bunch.
Are they ahead or behind??
Decide to race down to where Jessica is waiting for them at Brighton. The Southerly picks up, the rain picks up. No Jessica.
Head down into the headwind, I never ever see the DHBC bunch. (No wonder, in another universe, they are having cafe latte in Manly). Conditions worsen. Bestic Street is closed by flooding.
And so to the RNP. No traffic, no cyclists, plenty of wet roads and birds calling out. Tranquility rainforest pedalling.
In one of those quieter small chainring moments, I remember where the missing mobile phone is hiding in the office.
At Stanwell Tops I borrow a phone from some innocent car drivers and call Michele to tell her where it is and plan meeting for a lunch stop at Kiama.
Back on the road, Sea Cliff Bridge, wind howling. A magpie hits me.
Long story short, got into a hot and sunny Kiama and had fish and chips.
Went to pay,reached into the back pocket of my red jersey and pulled out my phone.

How did that get there??

While Michele was punching me, I thought back on the day that was Boxing Day.
If I knew that phone was in my jersey, I could have been a contender.
I could have been at Mazza's at 6. I could have had a fast fun ride to Manly and cafe latte's in the company of a prime group of sophisticated DHBC cyclists.

But that''s the way it goes sometimes.

Happy New Year all. Looking forward to more great rides.