Sydney: 26th jan, Olympic park "street" ride

[Rik]

Righto, this coming Monday is a public holiday, and I thought it'd be nice to get some riding in.
So...
Let's hit Olympic park and its surrounding area!

Meet at the northern side of Strathfield Station at 10:30am.

This station is on the Northern/Western lines, and is fairly busy, so you won't have problems getting there.
The best place to meet would be the north side of the station, the Everton Rd side.
Go up the stairs out of the station (if you have a ramp you're on the wrong side, just go under the tunnel to the other side), when you get to Everton Rd there'll be a pedestrian crossing leading to a big roundabout/island thingy with sheltered chairs on it. If you're on the south side, there'll be a huge mall type thing in front of the shopping centre, that's no good, yet again go under the tunnel to Everton Rd roundabout.
Look for the ugly guys on mountainbikes waiting there.

From Strathfield, we'll ride up through Concord West to Bicenennial Park, cut through their to Olympic Park, and go silly at Olympic Park. There's no use trying to meet at Olympic Park itself as trains are rather irregular (unless you drive), plus you miss out on some fun riding through bicentennial park. If anyone misses out on meeting at strathfield, I guess you can call someone and we can meet you elsewhere.

I plan on riding for a few hours, for those regulars on the city rides I'm having a birthday BBQ/drink thing after our ride so anyone that knows me personally is invited, PM me and I'll give you more details! Of course I don't want any random shmoe to turn up, as you can understand, but as I said, if I know you, you're welcome!

[naz]

ye ill come if my 243 arrives

[Rik]

It's council cleanup time around my area, if you don't have a .243 I'm sure I can find something you can ride... saw a mad pink 12" bike earlier, that's something you're used to, and your colour too!

[naz]

fuk oath pink complements my complexion :P

[Dicky]

arg i'd be up for that..... but i'm in canberra for a friend's 18th.

do some big wheelies for me

[RCOH]

souds like a good day, i will tentatively put my name up for participation...

however

Sun 25th of Jan is my annual australia day/hottest 100 BBQ @ Bronte Park, so Monday could be a recovery day.

[Rik]

Ahh nice, but still, come anyway, make Monday a recovery ride ;)

[Archi]

can't come, but a word of warning: i was riding there today, and there is some party/celebrations planned there for australia day, so it might be a bit crowded.

[Rik]

http://www.sydneyolympicpark.nsw.gov.au/index.asp?PageType=EventDetail&EventID=557

That's cool, starts at 3pmish, where we ride is away from public thoroughfare... but damn, I wanna hang aroud and see Finding Nemo on the open cinema screen :?

[naz]

ill be there for sure, any guys wanna meet up in the city to train out to whoop whoop :P

[RCOH]

Ahh nice, but still, come anyway, make Monday a recovery ride ;)

Alright, I will come

Naz, what time do you want to meet in town?

[Rik]

Any train going through the city will stop at Strathfield, trip will take 20 mins or so, so meet at quarter to 10 and you'll be there in plenty of time.

If you wanna drop anything off at my place (such as a change of clothes or beer or inflatable sex toys), get yourself to either Burwood or Strathfield station by 10am and that'll give us more than enough time to go back and forth.

[naz]

Ahh nice, but still, come anyway, make Monday a recovery ride ;)

Alright, I will come

Naz, what time do you want to meet in town?


ye, wanna meet at town hall stairs at 9/9:30 coz i dont wanna ride all day with a bag

[wombat]

Woohoo! I'm a comin boys! Lookin forward to meeting you lot.

[Drop in Drew]

I guess i'm in too.... but i'm still weary of the crowds... it sux when ppl get in the way.

[Rik]

OH shit, Drew! I've got a gapped planned out for you, it's <Big Kev> HUUuuggggeeeee, grass landing too.
There's plenty of open space to play in, crowds shouldn't be a big issue, but if they do shit us, we can always cruise the other direction and play in some skate parks.

[RCOH]

ye, wanna meet at town hall stairs at 9/9:30 coz i dont wanna ride all day with a bag

i will see you there, between 9am - 9:30 am

it'll be cool to check out the new bike

[Drop in Drew]

sweet i'm up for a gap my shock has never worked this good.. only problem is i have to work out my settings again... gap could turn nasty if i don't have them right.

[Jonnnnnnnnnnnoooooo]

sic....wat bike should i take a hardtail or dually?

[Drop in Drew]

hmmmmm... depends on what i like riding off stairs... jumping gaps, monoing around on and well just acting like an idiot on..... dually sounds goo unless u can do sick manuals on ur hardtail... i love watching manuals.. actually the most robust bike.. ur kona seems the go.

[naz]

man u just wait my beast probably close to the weight of urs drew, man it jumps like a dream and can manual forever ahhh

[Drop in Drew]

I want to meet u guys at concord west station what time will u go past? or should i meet up at the big tower in bicentenial park?

[naz]

bahaha today was mad fun...
wombat and emerin rocked up
and emerin was her biatchy self throwin grapes at people pissin ever1 off
da spit roast was sick..too bad i missed out on cake :evil:

haha im sure it wont be the last spit roast of the day...how long u staying at riks, emerin n wombat :shock: :? :P

[Rik]

Mate, the closest that got to that was Chris (bagofskill) and Steve (from another forum) both getting all touchy feely with my FRM frame :?

Damn, more guys should've turned up, I still have shitloads of food and beer left. Ahh well, good fun nonetheless.

[Drop in Drew]

Thanx alot for a get day! happy 21st mate!