The way points of this bicycle route:
Brewer Street Carpark.
Right and left to cross Smythes to Lancelot
Left at Brays
Right at Majors Bay Road
Left at Norman. Beware fast traffic that drifts into the cycle lane on the curves.
Right at Nullawarra
Nullawarra turns left in front of the Concord RSL
Right on Moala
Right at the roundabout on Hospital road. Try not to get mashed by a car, despite the convenient emergency ward.
Left at Fremont
Right at Killoola
Left up the cycle path by the preschool
Right on the footpath of Concord Road (this is a cyclepath - you're legal).
Cross Mary Street at lights.
Bike path crosses car park at dead end. Beware puddles, reversing vehicles.
Turn right into Llewellyn St East. Or you could go left here and cross with the lights to head for the John Whitton cycle bridge. That is 1 km shorter.
Right at the end of Llewellyn onto footpath and over the bridge
Right onto bike path at end of bridge
Cross loop road. BEWARE: blind crossing. Use traffic mirror.
Bike path loops under bridge.
Left at Bowden
Right at roundabout onto Bay
Follow bay around right up the hill
This is where the John Whitton traffic rejoins
Straight at bridge
Left at Constitution
Right at end onto path by rail line
Cut through carpark
Out onto Hermitage
Cross Victoria here
Left at Wattle, following bike route signs
Right on Ryedale
Left At Anthony
Left onto cyclepath just before roundabout
Path through Symons Reserve
Left over rail bridge
Stay right into carpark and onto path by rail line
Cross over to other side of Chatham.
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.
Don't go up Eastwood Avenue. It is a little shorter but it has garden beds in the parking lane and more traffic. 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 by turning right into it
Left at Chelmsford
Go right at First Avenue. Beware ducks !
Left on Dunlop
Right at Hermington
and right
left on Willoughby.
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 steep Rembrandt. This way we avoid more of Pennant Hills road, which is not cycle friendly.
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 again
Become a pedestrian momentarily and go left into Torquil. Cars shouldn't do this, but they do sometimes.
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 is a down hill run and it widens to three lanes.
After you cross the M2, I recommend you do the next block (in this direction) on the footpath. The cars will do 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
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.
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Lazy Hill climber
Tagged with: Commute, Onroad, Steep, Intermediate, Offroad, Low traffic, Safe, Urban, Scenic
