https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCamT_K1OF4&feature=youtu.be

Video footage linked above, thankfully I was riding about with my GoPro on.

Take Orangetown Clark Trail from its Southern terminus Oak Tree Road in Tappan/Palisades or jump on it at Kings Hwy in Sparkill  and/or new section behind Lowe's in Orangeburg.  One option is to exit trail at Bataan/Mtn View (Bataan named after WWII bloody battle In Phillippines) or continue on trail to Northern end.  If you take Mtn View, pass D'Arte restaurant strip on right(excellent bakery--tell Rolfe you are a friend of Jay's!)  At 303 press silver button  and carefully cross.  Follow Greenbush as it curves left .

(I talk about trains enough on here, I should share the good news when it comes around)

http://web.mta.info/lirr/SouthForkCommuterConnection/index.htm

"The South Fork Commuter Connection (SFCC) is a coordinated rail and bus system created to operate during peak commuting hours in order to provide workers with a public transportation travel option.

This service starts on Monday, March 4, 2019. It will operate Monday through Friday year-round, except for major legal holidays and on Fridays during the summer.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/you-dont-need-sports-drinks-to-stay-hydrated/

As Wencheng Lin has already posted on the group's Facebook page, there are a couple of potholes, as well as a ton of gravel at the intersection of Rockland Road and 9W (the turnoff to Tallman State Park). If you're not familiar with it, there's a little bit of a descent there if you're coming from Ft. Lee, so you can pick up a bit of speed, and before you know it, you're on top of the pothole. If you go left, you're putting yourself into traffic, and if you go right, there's a *ton* of gravel, which caused a crash with the group I was riding with yesterday that resulted in at least one injury.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/obituaries/major-taylor-overlooked.html

Let us not feel too smug that we've long passed the time of repulsive discrmination against and vile treatment of black cyclists. Well within my lifetime as an adult, in the 1960s, New York's vaunted racing organization, the Century Road Club Association (CRCA) barred black cyclists from competing! (See, for example, the ineffably sad story of Brooklyn's Metzler Brothers in Peter Nye's "Hearts of Lions: The History of American Bicycle Racing.") (If you're the person, now forgotten, to whom I loaned it, please return it.)

I'm planning to register for this year's FANY ride, 400-500 miles, from Plattsburgh to Poughkeepsie. Registration is currently open.

https://www.fanyride.com

I'd love to join anyone going, or have anyone join me. I plan to take Metro North to Poughkeepsie and then their shuttle to the start.

Okay, I give up. I'm a true blue retrogrouch (I have a 5-yr-old iPhone) but I'm tired of of my hands being so cold when the rest of me is fine. Time to buy some heated gloves!!

Any recommendations/endorsements? I know a bunch of people in the club have them, what are the preferred brands? I did a search and found about 30 different brands/models. I even found headed glove liners but none seemed to have a good rating.

Sorry if a similar thread has already appeared (I didn't see it).

Thanks in advance,

-d

Pushing the ride to Sunday to take advantage of warmer temperatures.