Out of Bounds

Sydney to Ettalong and back via Palm Beach has to be one of best rides Sydney has to offer.



Especially when the weather holds out and you see sunshine and blue sky instead of grey clouds and driving rain.

















Some of Tour de Cure's best took to the roads on Sunday morning, leaving the club house whilst it was still dark and filled with midnight ragers wondering why we would choose to go to bed at 9pm on a Saturday night jut so we could ride half way to Newcastle and back without anything artificial in our bodies......................All I can say is thank goodness for our VITTORIA COFFEE at 5am.





My trusty training partner Mal was ever present as was the Ferges and Pup. Berty joined us for a pretty rotten coffee at Road warriors before returned the old hwy to Sydney for some solid solo training. Good effort mate








With good time under our belt we decided to take on the Old Road to Mooney Mooney which is still closed due to the slide which we narrowly missed on last years tour. The road in to Mooney Mooney was sensational and free of cars.................gotta love that.








Reaching the road works we were surprised to see that the local council had undertaken some excavations since we were last through................the digger had been busy and so our crossing became more of a mountain bike session than road session. Poor Pup..............his nice WHITE cycling shoes got worn in through the silt and mud in the sand pit.








Realising that we had no time time to ride back and still make our ferry we crossed the PIT and high tailed it to ETTALONG, just in time to get 5 of the best (5 x Bacon & Egg Rolls + 5 Double shot coffee's) to take on the ferry to Palm Beach.










B-Lining it for home, to not spend too much time away from the loved ones, the old fella's as Pup would call us (Stu, Mal, Cougar + Kate) gave some fantastic support to Tom as he rode his 600th km in the week. Have to think that if we (the old fella's) hadn't have been there to help him, I doubt Tom would have been able to finish this ride and clock up his 600th kilometre






Well done Tommy!





Great ride Mal, Tom, Kate and Stu!







6 weeks and counting...............