The way points of this bicycle route:
Left at Barunga
Right on Moala
Left on Nullawarra
You can cut through the hospital here but it involves a stair case so it isn't worth it.
Right at the roundabout on Hospital road. Try not to get killed.
Left into the carpark before the Rose garden
Bear right over to the paved path (which is actually one end of the Kokoda Trail).
Left onto the raised path. Beware cars crossing the path, which they see as a paved speedhump.
Through the gate. They shut this at night, at which time you have to go via Femont Street instead of the car park.
Left at Killoola, road or north side footpath
Cross the front of the preschool, then right up the bike path beside it.
Right on the footpath at Concord Road
Cross at lights at Mary Street. You could have stayed on the Kokoda trail and rejoined this route here. The K. Trail is narrow, windy, loosely paved and pedestrian infested . . . :) but well worth seeing. Just not a good bike commute route.
Bike path crosses car park at dead end. Beware puddles, reversing vehicles, and unsavoury types and smells from toilet block.
Go left here and cross with the lights to head for the John Whitton cycle bridge. Or you could not cross, and turn right into Llewellyn St East, and use the car bridge. That adds 1 km.
Left on the footpath for 2 houses on the other side of Concord Road to get to Llewellyn St West.
Right at Llewellyn St
Right at Blaxland Road
Left at cycleway sign to bike path and JW Bridge
Ride on the line of bolt heads and it is a lot quieter.
Beware oncoming cyclists cutting the corner at this dogleg in the path
BEWARE traffic, residential and construction. Badly parked trucks, tradesmen and their vans
Left over the bridge
Right on Banks
Styraight at roundabout
"Straight" or right turn into Banks. Or go left on Constitution and right at roundabout onto Station.
Left at Union
Right at Maxim
Left onto footpath just before Victoria Road
Go to the 2nd pedestrian crossing lights
Cross over to West parade, and stay on the road
Left At Anthony
Left at Dickson
Right at Chatham
Dennistone Station to Eastwood rail trail comes out here on the other side of the road.
Sod of a hill, and traffic, and need to move out to middle lane so as to not be forced to turn left
Go under the road bridge
Beware shopping traffic
Beware cars doing odd things to drop people off at the station without having to use the car park.
You can go up Eastwood Avenue. It is a little shorter but it has garden beds in the parking lane and more traffic. I prefer to stay on Railway Avenue
Becomes Cocos Ave
Right onto Eastwood Avenue
Hill !
Go straight at the dangerous roundabout (OK, they all are but this one even more so than usual)
This might be the highest point in the ride. You're done climbing for a bit, anyway.
Right onto Midson at lights
Immediately left into Edenlee, aka Mobbs lane
continue on Edenlee, or turn right into it
Left at Chelmsford
Off roaders can go straight another block to Second Ave. Roadies go right at First Avenue. Beware ducks, and their droppings.
Left on Dunlop
Wait for the offroaders here.
Right at Hermington
and right
left on Willoughby. Another high point
Right onto Pennant Parade
Left at Keeler
Right at Hepburn. No Spencer Tracy imitations, please.
Left on Carlingford Road. Major traffic, and you need to be in the right turning lane soon. Pick a good moment and own your lane.
Turn right into picturesque Rembrandt (sorry about that, but compared to the only alternative, which is Pennant Hills road, it is delightful).
Beware carpak traffic on left
more carparks (underground this time) and loading docks with reversing semis
Left at Dunrossil
Immediately right into Loch Awe Cresent
right
Become a pedestrian momentarily and go left into Torquil. Cars can't do this.
left at Alamein
Right at Benghazi Rd. Some war buff got to name all these roads.
weeee ! (Rollercoaster)
left at North Rocks
Wave to the Lollypop man
Right onto Pennant Hills Rd (traffic, but OK here because it widens to three lanes after the down hill run
After you cross the M2, I recommend you do the next block (in this direction) on the footpath. The cars will to at least 70 kmh up this hill, and you aren't Lance.
back on the road somewhere here
Left onto Oratavia
Right into the State Forrest. Very dark at night in here. beware speedhumps
bump !
left steep up past nursery buildings (plants, not babies)
accross gravel and grass to driveway with chain accross it
lift bike over chain
left
Right is faster, but you will be going the wrong way on a one way road. Footpath goes in and out of IBM swipe card gates
Right at Multistorey
Bikerack.
