Tragic city bike accidents test new Right of Way law — as traffic incidents result in mixed legal recourse

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/tragic-city-bike-accidents...

You have seen the comments about not enough rides. Now is your chance to do something about it.

Step up and lead a ride.If you don't feel comfortable leading on your own, contact me or a ride coordinator and we will pair you with an experienced leader.

Leading a ride is not difficult and is fun:

I'm interested in hearing from anyone else who is having trouble, especially intermittent trouble, getting rides recorded with the Strava app on one's smartphone to sync to Strava's server. Support denies this is a widespread problem but they have a FAQ for it on their support page (logout then login; sounds reasonable until you realize you can't login again for days).

I'm doing the Long Island Tour De Cure tomorrow and planning to take the LIRR back to the city from Southold. The LIRR website says bikes are limited to only 8 per train and there's only 1 train back from Southold that afteroon. Any idea what I should expect? Is the 8 bike limit strongly enforced?

Tomorrow's ride offerings:

Just added a B-18 ride for this Sunday. Cue sheet still in development for exact details will be available late Saturday night to registered riders of http://nycc.org/node/7550

The ride is built around using the Bicycle Sunday closure of Bronx River Parkway both northbound and southbound. I rode this last Sunday and it was fun. After the Parkway we'll hook around through Mt. Kisco and then on to New Rochelle and then back to Manhattan. Note that I currently plan to attempt to use the High Bridge to get to The Bronx.  We'll return via the Broadway Bridge.

Please do not come on this ride if you're looking to get home at 1PM.

The forecast has changed for the better -- low probability of rain early in the morning and 0% beginning at noon. So, worst case is the grass is a little damp.

There are 4 rides posted for tomorrow that include participating in this twice a year opportunity to clean up a short stretch of 9W. The entire job should take about an hour, maybe less if more people come.

There will be light refreshments, courtesy NYCC at THe Market and of course you can supplement that individually.

Many thanks to Richard Rosenthal, Michael Bernstein, Linda Wintner, Alan Resnick and Michael Roth for volunteering to lead rides or bring people to the Market.

From the Friends of the OCA:

http://aqueduct.org/how-reach-high-bridge

Please join us on Sunday, June 14th, for the FREE Riverdale Riverfest.  The mission of the Riverfest is to bring people down to the Hudson River in Riverdale to encourage support for development of a bicycle/pedestrian Greenway along the Hudson River in the Bronx that would connect with the existing West Side Greenway in Manhattan.

A few of the many highlights of the festival are 1) one and a half hour sails on Pete Seeger's iconic sloop, the Clearwater as well as sails on the schooner, A.J. Meerwald, ($25 cost), 2) a headline performance by the iconic band Blood, Sweat and Tears (5-6:30pm),  and 3) a Transportation ALternatives BIKE VALET (free)!

http://www.independent.ie/sport/other-sports/cycling/lance-armstrong-ive-admitted-to-it-all-and-i-have-suffered-enough-its-now-time-to-draw-line-in-the-sand-31294031.html