Thank you Pat Mullen for an incredibly beautiful and well run ride yesterday. I highly recommend this very well thought out island hopping journey.  Try it, at least once.

Rockland County's Highway Department periodically spreads loose small stones on the roads up there.  They claim that this extends the road life.  However this year the dissipation of the small stones has been slower than usual since their spreading about three weeks ago.  They still cover the roadway in many places, especially at the intersection of Tweed and Bradley (CR's 5 & 38).  This can be treacherous for cycling, especially on hilly stretches. I hope the stones are gone by the time of my next weekend LoHud ride in early October so we can use those roads.

I rode in the Westchester Cycle Golden Apple on Sunday and had a great ride- the route was beautiful and well marked and there was a marshal everywhere there needed to be. Lots of challenging hills- and homemade ice cream at the end!

Tony - I can't find your email address on the site so if you email me (using the link on the left) I'll send you that ride list we discussed.

cheers,

george

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Sunday Post (p.4) piece regarding "green necklace" around Manhattan

Be part of Escape New York on September 24!

Jobs are still available at rest stops, registration, Sakura Park, and more.

The one-and-only NY Times fashion photographer and cyclist Bill Cunningham made this super-fun video about car-free Park Avenue this summer. Enjoy:

http://video.nytimes.com/video/2011/09/02/fashion/100000001032512/bill-cunningham--cycles.html

There were numerous roads closed to cars on Friday 9/2 making Harriman virtually car-free.

106 Gate Hill Climb, passable by bike but road closed all the way past Lake Welch to Kanawake Circle.  The road on the Gate Hill climb was badly damaged so it looks like it may be bikes only for a while??

7 Lakes from Kanawake Circle to Lake Ashakoti bikeable but no cars 

Arden Valley also closed but I didn't ride it so don't know if it's bikeable, but probably

Perkins was closed to cars but the road is as perfect as ever

There's more gravel on some of the roads after being washed up during the hurricaine.  (excuse the bad spelling-- too lazy to look up the correct spelling of the lakes).  Enjoy

Just back from Paris and tried the velibs: French commuter bikes.  We were staying on the left bank at my nephew’s apartment.  He commutes daily to downtown by velib.  When we walked around the downtown tourist area, there were many tourists, without helmets, riding in maybe not the safest manner.  Nonetheless, I did not see or hear of any serious accidents.