Last week on TV there was a story regarding 7 attacks on the WESTSIDE BIKE PATH -during daylight hours!  Believe all between mid-town and the GW bridge.  4 teens on bikes - here is the newscast I saw on TV - http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2016/08/26/riverside-park-robberies/

I have also witnessed a group of 4 teens on bikes with very good handling skills menacing people (both on bikes and off) in Central Park. They do it at fairly crowded times - this Sunday afternoon and during evening commute hours, so this is not limited to quiet times in the park. Nobody has suggested connecting these two groups, but I fear that they sound too similar to ignore the coincidence.

The link below is on the NYCC FB page. Diane Goodwin posted it. I put it here for those who, like me, just don't do FB. This is truly, sincerely very, very crappy news. I never met Danny but have long admired him from afar. He is important in my universe.

Keep Bikes Off Our Wilderness Trails - NY Times Op Ed

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OK, to be truthful, I have no interest in buying the ENY jersey, but I am interested in its cost. You'd think by clicking on its image on our Website, or on the ENY page that pictures it, you'd learn its cost. You'd be wrong.  That's privileged information for which you are obliged to first sign-in to Verge, the jersey's manufacturer. I assume once you've surrendered your e-address, they divulge the price. Do you think, once they've harvested your information and you're in their system, that just maybe you'll hear from them...again and again? All this just to learn the price of the jersey? Unh-uh.

Is there a NYCC (B) group riding the NYC TA Century

(together) Saturday, or any interest in one?

Dear all,

  I was biking through Hunt's Point yesterday, and there is a new multi-use bike/pedestrian path. It looks brand new and very nice, but it only goes for a short distance along Food Center Drive-- hardly a pedestrian/bike thoroughfare. In fact, it goes from nowhere to nowhere. (Oh, and it directly abuts several bus stops, so watch out for peds waiting for the bus or exiting the bus drifting into your path.)

  Anyone have any insight as to why the city built the damn thing in such an industrial area when so many other more densely inhabited places in the Bronx (not to mention the other four boros) are crying out for better bike facilities?

  I'm mystified.

-Erica

I will be driving there Saturday afternoon in time for the dinner and am staying at the Westin Governer Morris.  I was planning on the 107, but will most likely do the 75.  I can take 2-3 others depending on how compact you want your bikes on my rack.  You don't have to be staying at the Westin, but somewhere close would be nice.  Let me know if you would like a ride.  I am leaving from Brooklyn, but will be traveling via Manhattan.

Bob 718-757-6957

Volunteer Kick-off Sponsored by NYC VELO

When: Thursday September 8th, 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM

Now it is easier than ever to volunteer - just go to the sticky at the top of the message board, and follow the link that Sam has posted! He and his people have been working diligently to make this year better than ever, so let's volunteer to help out. Lots of positions still needed.