It's raining.  We hope to see you Thursday.

If you have a car—heck, if you can DRIVE a car— or a van—Escape New York needs you. There are still openings for licensed drivers to help with provisions on Friday as well as Saturday. (Work Friday, ride Saturday).

We need drivers to shuttle volunteers to the rest stops so everyone gets fed on time! We’ll even provide the van!

And we need cars to patrol the routes as S.A.G vehicles. If you’ve ever had to call an Uber, here’s your chance to beef up your karma.

So, baby if you drive a car, ENY will make you a star!

Once a month, I write a President’s Message that is posted on the carousel on the main page of the Club Website.  Some of my messages are better than others.  This month’s the best ever – it’s about NYCC cycling style. I copied the message here thinking perhaps placing it on the Message Board would make it more available to more members. 

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Escape New York. . . . .

Our big event, Escape New York – “ENY” - is around the corner. It is our showcase event of the year. This one day, September 16, 2017, is perhaps the single most shining day of the year for the New York  Cycle Club.

Dear Members,

For the lucky Gran Fondo NJ FREE entry raffle winners, who have not as yet entered this beautiful and challenging one day ride/ event, on September 10, 2017, please use it and register at: granfondonj.com, for Team NYCC ASAP. The free entry expires on August 28th. It has been called to my attention, by one of the generous donors of the free entries, that there are still outstanding raffle winners who have not taken advantage of the prize they won. In order to join Team NYCC, please shoot me a quick email requesting our team's password at: [email protected].

Does the NSA flag the use of the word "bombing" on the Internet? If not...

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...so Saturday we were bombing down 9W, on a fast down slope headed to the rise that crests at the state line and the turn-in into Columbia's Lamont laboratories and we pass some doofus with a shovel, shoveling the road. Huh? What? How's that? There're no horses leaving dung up there.

The Bloodroot Cafe Ride will happen as promised! Noon at end of #6 train.

:)

:-)

Cloudy, but chance of rain is low. 

This just in from the Central Park Conservancy:

"Starting Monday, August 14^th, we will be performing repairs to a water main line that runs beneath the recreation lane on the Drive.  The area of construction is located just north of the intersection where the Closed East Drive meets Center Drive at the SE corner of the loop; for reference,  the cross street is E 66^th St.  The repairs will require us to close the runners’/pedestrian lane, which will necessitate cars and bikers having to share one lane of the road.  We will have a pedestrian walkway created for runners and walkers. We anticipate the work lasting 2- 3 days."