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Nice stretch of road. The bunch of us that cruise up for the weekly Coastie cruise find the best place to start the Old Pac is from where the truckstop is in Berowra. Before that it's pretty much a mostly straight stretch of road...

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thanks for the heads up

not going for a fang.....just gonna head up around 2ish and i wanted to see what all the hype was.

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just had a look at whereis....its looks very tight through mooney mooney

Watch for cops. Lots of them up there catching the guys on bikes.

Watch for bikes, not all of them doing 60.

Road is still closed at Calga so you miss the best bit up to Somersby and have to go back on the F3

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yeah its the F3 or the old pac :rolleyes:

It does get very busy on weekends so you'll have no probs with blind corners or anything as stage 2 3 and 4 are all 60kms anyway.

stage 1 from berowra to the hawksbury river is 80kms.

Cops patrol it every weekend.

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even at speeds like, 60km/h its hard...

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Anyway, if you're going up on a Sunday just do at around the speed limit, and expect to not get a flowing drive. The road is always full of tourists on the weekend, and so its heavily patrolled. You'll also find a lot of cyclists during the day, so you'll go around some of those blind corners and find some spastics in spandex doing 20km/hr.

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i remember one particular blind corner after a bridge that got me a little freaked out at night since I couldn't see shit and head lights were crap.....otherwise, its pretty flowy....left, right, left, right mmmmmmmmm.

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Yeah I wouldnt say scary, Id say weekends are just too busy.

As Scathing said, its the push bike riders that you mainly need to watch for.

Best to go mid week for a nice drive with less traffic

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