Team Lucarelli/Castaldi-NY Velocity will be leading an "A" ride for Escape New York. Strong riders looking for a great group ride should come along. 

We will meet at around 6:45 AM at Sakura park and congregate just outside the fence to the south of the entrance.  At 7:15, we ride. The pace will be steady and we will try to keep everyone together. It may get a bit more selective on the longer climbs, but we always regroup at the top. We’ll stop for mechanical issues and the like.

Most of us are aware of the tragic Central Park incident that took place yesterday.

Neile Weissman is currently on his way to the Park for an emergency meeting with the commander of the Central Park Precinct.

At the conclusion of that meeting, more info will be posted.

Thanks,

George

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/19/opinion/timothy-egan-death-on-a-bike.html?ref=opinion

It seems a sad coincidence that Timothy Egan’s piece gets published on the same day that many of us find out a cyclist and a pedestrian in Central Park were involved in a tragic crash, the second such crash in a matter of weeks.  

http://pelotonmagazine.com/feedzone/live-video-jens-voigt-attempts-new-h...

Escape New York is in like, 30 hours. Although we've had great response from club members (and non members alike), we are critically short of people with cars and driver's licenses to assist Jerry in marking the routes tomorrow, and to help get all the non-car-owning volunteers from Sakura to one of the four rest stops on Saturday.

If you are a person with a car and a driver's license, please consider blowing off work tomorrow, Friday, to help with route marking, and please also consider cancelling whatever other plans you might have had for Saturday to help with rest stop transportation.

Thanks!

Bicyclists are going to get more blow back on this latest incident

http://nypost.com/2014/09/18/cyclist-slams-into-pedestrian-in-central-park/

SUCCESS  !! I made it to the top of Bear..

But I have an important question to ask.. My pal beat me to the top.. He was riding a triple !!!  I know I know..

I usually beat this guy on everything.. question is what sort of time penalty per mile should I enforce or should I just void the result and challenge him to do it with two plates instead of three...

Disclaimer.. I was riding compact 34/50 with 12/27.. but even so.. I mean come on there must be a rule.. a triple.. he's like 15 years younger than me...

Hi--

I don't see any posts for evening loops, but would love to join anyone for 2-4 easy laps in the park at around 7 PM a few days a week before it gets too cold to ride! Feel free to shoot me an email [email protected] if you would like to join.

Until this month, there were no exact numbers on the number of bicyclists and pedestrians who traverse the busiest span in the world. But thanks to a counter the Port Authority installed earlier this year, now we know: An average of 1,700 cyclists and 900 pedestrians cross the George Washington Bridge each day.

Transportation Alternatives and the New Jersey Bike & Walk Coalition pushed the Port Authority to install the counter ahead of a $1 billion project to replace the bridge's 592 suspender ropes, announced in May. The budget for the project also includes funding to rehabilitate the bridge's main cables, replace the north and south sidewalks, and improve pedestrian and bicycle access ramps.

How many bikers cross the GWB daily?

Excepts:
An average of 1,700 cyclists and 900 pedestrians cross the George Washington Bridge each day.