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simon.sharwood · Postby **simon.sharwood** » 25 Mar 2009, 09:15

What a ride! Dave Sullivan and I decided to extend our Kurnell ride by taking the 2.7km road up to Cape Solander last Sunday. About half way up the road the surface changes to really big chunks of aggregate that shook us up - literally. It was a very weird surface to ride on, because we were shaking so much that it felt like spinning, even in quite low gears. So much for Carbon's vibration-dampening effects! I had numb toes after a kilometre of the stuff!
Anyway ... the view from the end of the road is a stunner and the ride is nice.
The swim and coffee at Cronulla rocked, too, although the coffee queue was wayyyyyyyy too long.

weiyun · Postby **weiyun** » 25 Mar 2009, 10:08

Yep, it's a nice view up there on a good day. Is that off-shore drilling rig still there?

I have only driven there and don't remember the road being particularly worse than typical NP standard.

simon.sharwood · Postby **simon.sharwood** » 25 Mar 2009, 10:16

The rig is still there. Cars probably have no problems with the surface but on a bike ... it's a real boneshaker!

weiyun · Postby **weiyun** » 25 Mar 2009, 10:22

Is it worse than the road surfaces in RNP?

simon.sharwood · Postby **simon.sharwood** » 25 Mar 2009, 10:35

Dunno - yet to ride RNP

micklan · Postby **micklan** » 26 Mar 2009, 12:29

yep it's very course road to the cape and one gets the jitters

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