Nebo Glorious - My favourite ride
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Re: Nebo Glorious - My favourite ride
Postby notwal » Tue Sep 20, 2011 10:49 pm
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Re: Nebo Glorious - My favourite ride
Postby Comedian » Wed Sep 21, 2011 7:06 am
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Re: Nebo Glorious - My favourite ride
Postby ValleyForge » Wed Sep 21, 2011 11:33 am
We take Goodwill to Cafe as 1:20mins for us, 56mins coming back via Red Hill. Some take the Forest Park Information centre as the start (the one near the Gap Reservoir).Comedian wrote:Does anyone know if there are any official timing marks at the bottom? The coffee shop is the top mark, right?
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Re: Nebo Glorious - My favourite ride
Postby Comedian » Wed Sep 21, 2011 7:20 pm
Damn... I started in the driveway for the "school of contemporary voice" a few metres before the park information centre.ValleyForge wrote:We take Goodwill to Cafe as 1:20mins for us, 56mins coming back via Red Hill. Some take the Forest Park Information centre as the start (the one near the Gap Reservoir).Comedian wrote:Does anyone know if there are any official timing marks at the bottom? The coffee shop is the top mark, right?
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Re: Nebo Glorious - My favourite ride
Postby notwal » Wed Sep 21, 2011 7:38 pm
Do you mean from the Goodwill bridge at Gardens Point to Mt Glorious cafe?ValleyForge wrote:We take Goodwill to Cafe as 1:20mins for us, 56mins coming back via Red Hill. Some take the Forest Park Information centre as the start (the one near the Gap Reservoir).Comedian wrote:Does anyone know if there are any official timing marks at the bottom? The coffee shop is the top mark, right?
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Re: Nebo Glorious - My favourite ride
Postby ZepinAtor » Wed Sep 21, 2011 8:00 pm
mmmm, let me see. I rode it a little while ago...........notwal wrote:Does anyone know if the Goat Track is rideable ?
.............on the MTB.
Seriously though it has smoothed out a little since these photos were taken, but on a road bike you'd be going slow.
These are the worst sections which you could manoeuvre through carefully & the remainder is gravel road as it always was.
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Re: Nebo Glorious - My favourite ride
Postby notwal » Wed Sep 21, 2011 9:26 pm
Looks like the fairies have been there piling up rocks for their mysterious warning messages.
My rock reading is rusty but I think they say something like "Gaze on the destruction we have wrought and go no further lest you feel the full force of unleashed fairy fury". He he ... tricky little buggers.
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Re: Nebo Glorious - My favourite ride
Postby ValleyForge » Wed Sep 21, 2011 9:35 pm
Yup - Starting (AT) Maritime Museum, Goodwill Br, George St, Caxton St, MacGregor Tce, Coopers Camp Rd, Waterworks Rd to Mt Nebo Cafe.notwal wrote:Do you mean from the Goodwill bridge at Gardens Point to Mt Glorious cafe?ValleyForge wrote:We take Goodwill to Cafe as 1:20mins for us, 56mins coming back via Red Hill. Some take the Forest Park Information centre as the start (the one near the Gap Reservoir).Comedian wrote:Does anyone know if there are any official timing marks at the bottom? The coffee shop is the top mark, right?
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Re: Nebo Glorious - My favourite ride
Postby notwal » Wed Sep 21, 2011 10:45 pm
Someone should paint an official start line on the road and write "START YOUR STOPWATCH" and paint a couple of finish lines too and maybe "Got Fat? Go Vegan" or not. I think the bus terminus is a good spot for a start line because that's where the first hill starts however it may not be a good place to paint the road.
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Re: Nebo Glorious - My favourite ride
Postby ValleyForge » Thu Sep 22, 2011 9:13 am
We'd be murdered if we took the extra time to Glorious on the week-ends.notwal wrote:Ah, Mt Nebo Cafe and Mt Glorious Cafe are about 25 minutes apart. And here I was thinking I was chatting with Cadel himself.
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Re: Nebo Glorious - My favourite ride
Postby licensed » Thu Sep 22, 2011 10:10 am
I noticed some of the links on the previous pages finish the Nebo climb at the roundabout where Mt Nebo Road meets with Bateson Road, Forestry Road and Manwaring Road, which if im not mistaken is a little bit further on than the Mt Nebo cafe?ValleyForge wrote:Yup - Starting (AT) Maritime Museum, Goodwill Br, George St, Caxton St, MacGregor Tce, Coopers Camp Rd, Waterworks Rd to Mt Nebo Cafe.
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Re: Nebo Glorious - My favourite ride
Postby Purt » Thu Sep 22, 2011 11:46 pm
It's fine, its been rideable the whole time.notwal wrote:Does anyone know if the Goat Track is rideable ?
I ride it on a roadie all the time.
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Re: Nebo Glorious - My favourite ride
Postby notwal » Fri Sep 23, 2011 9:26 pm
cool. I'll give it a go.Purt wrote:It's fine, its been rideable the whole time.notwal wrote:Does anyone know if the Goat Track is rideable ?
I ride it on a roadie all the time.
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Re: Nebo Glorious - My favourite ride
Postby goneriding » Tue Sep 27, 2011 3:35 pm
According to Hillclimbr.com the start is the Bus Depot and the end is the Mt Nebo 617m sign qhich, from memory, is a bit before the cafe.licensed wrote:I noticed some of the links on the previous pages finish the Nebo climb at the roundabout where Mt Nebo Road meets with Bateson Road, Forestry Road and Manwaring Road, which if im not mistaken is a little bit further on than the Mt Nebo cafe?ValleyForge wrote:Yup - Starting (AT) Maritime Museum, Goodwill Br, George St, Caxton St, MacGregor Tce, Coopers Camp Rd, Waterworks Rd to Mt Nebo Cafe.
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Re: Nebo Glorious - My favourite ride
Postby whichway » Wed Sep 28, 2011 6:26 am
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Re: Nebo Glorious - My favourite ride
Postby winstonw » Wed Sep 28, 2011 6:37 am
I am interested in that too. I presumed it might be a little quieter.whichway wrote:How busy is this road during the week compared to on the weekend?
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Re: Nebo Glorious - My favourite ride
Postby ZepinAtor » Wed Sep 28, 2011 7:12 am
Depends on the time of day & which direction you're travelling.winstonw wrote:I am interested in that too. I presumed it might be a little quieter.whichway wrote:How busy is this road during the week compared to on the weekend?
Up in the morning would be against the main flow of workers commuting towards the CBD, although if returning the same way later that morning you would encounter the same traffic on the way down.
Afternoons visa-versa. As to how many cars/ motos (week days) I don't know as I only ever use that road early on weekends.
I haven't really answered your question have I ?
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Re: Nebo Glorious - My favourite ride
Postby Purt » Wed Sep 28, 2011 10:29 am
dead.whichway wrote:How busy is this road during the week compared to on the weekend?
I've gone up a several times during the week, I usually get overtaken by a max of like 10 (once I didn't see any at all) cars between gap and nebo. There's usually a few more coming the other way but I either go down the goat track or pei rd so don't really take notice.
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Re: Nebo Glorious - My favourite ride
Postby notwal » Wed Sep 28, 2011 11:56 am
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Re: Nebo Glorious - My favourite ride
Postby igstar » Thu Sep 29, 2011 9:20 am
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Re: Nebo Glorious - My favourite ride
Postby elantra » Thu Sep 29, 2011 9:37 am
The descent from Mt Glorious to Samford is moderately hideous and i will not be doing it more than once if i can help it.igstar wrote:I was up from Victoria for a week's holiday in Brisbane and did this ride midweek - it was very quiet in terms of traffic. Really enjoyed the ride, but the steep descent going towards Stamford wasn't very pleasant - poor road surface, very steep and tight corners (I would like to tackle it up next time). I was also considering continuing on from Mt Glorious towards Lake Wivenhoe, but I wasn't sure what the roads would be like there. Next time.
Riding back down to Waterworks Rd (The Gap) is much nicer - most of the time.
There is road from Mt Nebo to Samford (The Goat Track) but it is unsealed and landslided into the valley in a few places so don't descend it on road bike!
The western descent to Wivenhoe, well that has a bad reputation for hairpins and crashes.
Enough said, hope you enjoyed your holiday here.
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Re: Nebo Glorious - My favourite ride
Postby winstonw » Thu Sep 29, 2011 10:11 am
Mt Glorious Rd (Pei Rd) during the week is reasonably busy with tradies, delivery vans, occasional tourists, and buses going up and down, some at speed. though not as busy as weekend.
Re coming down Mt Glorious Rd (called Pei Rd on some maps), you have to take it really easy from the Mt Nebo Rd intersection for 1.5km to the second hairpin (av 15% gradient). That's where most of the motorbikes crash often due to brake failure. On 2 occasions I've witnessed heavier cyclists get rim heat flats. Jobst Brandt recommends deflating the front tire 10-20% before a descent like that in addition to keeping speed down.
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Re: Nebo Glorious - My favourite ride
Postby Purt » Thu Sep 29, 2011 12:52 pm
I can't remember the road surface on pei rd being poor in the past few years, maybe Vic is making you weak, I was actually thinking of how good the surface actually was like 2 weeks ago. It is much funner going up. I've been looking at doing a ride from Brisbane out to Ipswich, Wivenhoe, Mt Glorius, Nebo, Brisbane, the roads are pretty crap though.igstar wrote:I was up from Victoria for a week's holiday in Brisbane and did this ride midweek - it was very quiet in terms of traffic. Really enjoyed the ride, but the steep descent going towards Stamford wasn't very pleasant - poor road surface, very steep and tight corners (I would like to tackle it up next time). I was also considering continuing on from Mt Glorious towards Lake Wivenhoe, but I wasn't sure what the roads would be like there. Next time.
Decending the goat track on a road bike is fine, I do it almost weekly.elantra wrote:There is road from Mt Nebo to Samford (The Goat Track) but it is unsealed and landslided into the valley in a few places so don't descend it on road bike!
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Re: Nebo Glorious - My favourite ride
Postby notwal » Thu Sep 29, 2011 2:06 pm
I just drove over that road Tuesday to check it out. The road surface is ok but its windy and steep for a long way. You'd be on your brakes nearly all the way down.igstar wrote:I was up from Victoria for a week's holiday in Brisbane and did this ride midweek - it was very quiet in terms of traffic. Really enjoyed the ride, but the steep descent going towards Stamford wasn't very pleasant - poor road surface, very steep and tight corners (I would like to tackle it up next time). I was also considering continuing on from Mt Glorious towards Lake Wivenhoe, but I wasn't sure what the roads would be like there. Next time.
The road around Wivenhoe is fairly flat with some rolling hills. The Brisbane Valley highway seems somewhat long and boring and dangerous. It's narrow and a couple of big tanker trucks were belting along it when I drove it. However if you go north instead of south I think its ok. That is a route used for a 200 km audax brevet.
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Re: Nebo Glorious - My favourite ride
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