This being Bike Month, I will celebrate it with you in my own, typically skewed way. This will be the first of my three observations of it, two of which look back which, when you get to your dotage, you tend to do.

Donald Trump—who, and you're hearing it here, is NOT going to run for president*—attached his name to an eminent multi-stage bike race that attracted some of the great Euro-pros. It lasted all of two years before it morphed into the Tour Dupont where it lasted for six more.

Let's review:

Tour de France: 1903 - present

Giro d'Italia (which starts Sunday): 1909 - present

Tour de Trump: 1989 - 1990.

http://bikerepairapp.com/

That and 30 lbs. of hand tools and you're set for Nyack.

So I have received messages via email "via [my] contact form" and have tried to access the links listed to make a reply, but am told by the system that I am unauthorized to access them. Anybody able to guide me to enabling this?

I have sacriligeously pulled up stakes from the UWS after a couple years and moved back to Brooklyn. I miss waking up at 8:45 to make 9am rides at Eleanor, but it's nice to have spaaaace again.

Anyway, figured I'd start a thread to canvas my newly-fellow Brooklyn people out there. To start with: what's your shop? I used to swear by Innvoation on 106th st (work done cheap and fast; made my bike shiny). Where to go now? Ride Brooklyn seems promising. Does Cobble Hill/Carroll Gardens have a decent shop? Doesn't seem like it, based on google/yelp.

Oyster Bay Ride & Row is back for a third year, to give NYCC cyclists a taste of rowing in an 8-person racing shell with coaches from Sagamore Rowing Association.

Date: June 4, 2011

The ride is now posted and it requires sign-up and payment in advance.

We'll split into an A-20ish group led by George Arcarola and a B-17ish group led by Claudia Kulesh. We'll ride 25 miles to Oyster Bay, grab our lunch in town, and head over to the SRA's boathouse on Beekman Beach.

"A cluster of new studies suggests that people who regularly work out don’t need to worry unduly about consuming fructose or other sugars. In certain circumstances, they may even find the sweet stuff beneficial."

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/04/how-sugar-affects-the-body-in-m...

http://www.facebook.com/granfondony?sk=wall

They'll be available for purchase at club meetings.....starting with our May 10 B-SIG graduation meeting at Annie Moore's.

I may need a spoke or brake pad adjustment on a brand new bike.  Can't get back to the shop where I purchased it.  Any recommendations for a good shop in the Gramercy Park area?  Thank you.

Anyone have experience, knowledge or speculations about "The Ergo Seat"?  Link follows.

http://www.ergotheseat.com.au/