Hi All,

I just wanted to let you all know that there is a women's half marathon taking place in Central Park on Sunday 4/19.

I believe that the start time is 8:00am. NYRR have given the runners a 4 hour race limit, though I'm sure the chaos will be over well before 4 hours. 

Happy riding!

I am signed up for Glenn's Ride to Montauk on May 16, 2015, but I can't do it. Not an NYCC club ride. This is a fully supported ride. I payed $200, but for $150 cash or check, you get to ride in my place (fully legit). This includes transportation from and to Manhattan for you and your bike. I signed up for day before bike drop off, and day after bike pickup, but I believe you can change those details. You can choose the 75 or 100 mile route when you drop off your bike.

Details: https://bicycleshows.webconnex.com/rtm15

Josh Rubin

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NYCC and other Freds :-) represent !

Thanks Carol.

Just saw this article on recent and pending attempts to break the one hour cycling distance record. Bonus: Serious murdered-out BMC bike porn. I read that Rohan Dennis' wheels were an unbranded set of Lightweights.

Link: http://on.wsj.com/1JKARiz

Robert Meyer told me a three-legged dog beat me up Eisenhower. I asked if he was serious. He was. I'm not the least bit cowed by this. Please keep in mind the dog had three legs and I have only two and the dog is far younger and lighter than I am.

This just in from Metro North:

Con Ed is doing a feeder line cut in --- officially called NYSEG (Croton Falls 446 CKT) --- and in the event we lose power,  we will be running diesel service from Southeast to Mt. Kisco.  These will not be full size trains – they will have two or three coaches and a diesel locomotive.  If we lose power, we will not be able to accommodate the cyclists at Southeast.  Your only option will be to bike to Mt. Kisco station where electric service will be operating from.

All the weather sites I've checked are showing rain at 6am.  I hope to see you Thursday.

Hindy Schachter and Christy Guzzetta are co-leading an All Class Club group to participate on the Ghost Ride Sunday, April 19^th.   We will plan a brief detour from the Ghost Ride to visit the spot in Central Park where our dear friend and long time fellow Club member, Irv Schachter, lost his life in a tragic accident with a bicycle August 3^rd, 2014.

Imagine a region with 10 million residents separated by a mile-wide river.  One side is densely urban, the other mostly suburban.  Now imagine that the only way to cycle from one side of the river to the other is across a 1930’s-era bridge that crowds bikes and pedestrians together on a single sidewalk.

Unfortunately, this scenario illustrates actual present-day conditions in New York City and North Jersey.  The bridge is the George Washington, operated by the Port Authority.  If you’ve been on the bridge on a nice weekend, you know first-hand what the congestion and near-chaos are like.

...but I ask the MB overseers to, nevertheless, leave this as it now is.