...The Citi Bike program is fast approaching and people are signing up fast.

Annual registration is $95. You can ride for a whole year, free 45 minute ride, charges for going over. First 5,000 registered get 'charter' membership and get bonuses. It's going quick. For those who are residents in a NYC Housing Authority apartment, you can get in for $60 a year, but that discount is not available yet, so you can register later. 

More info on www.citibikenyc.com

Good luck and happy Citi Bike commute cycling,

Seeking route suggestions from Cold Spring Harbor to CP.  Great Freedom Adventures, a MA based bike tour company, is providing help to a group wanting to bike from Boston to NY's CP to raise money for Free the Children, a worldwide advocacy group for reducing child labor and poverty. Looking for input from NYCC members on this portion of the ride with emphasis on safety and directness. Have a decent amount of input from various resources including a past stint living and biking in NYC, but would love tips from the folks who currently bike the roads a lot and are therefore the experts. Thanks very much! 

The older I get (65 and counting), the less comfortable is my bike seat, and for shorter distances. After 35-40 miles of B/C riding my crotch aches. Can anyone recommend a man's saddle for a light (130 lbs or so, not much butt down there) rider? Any endorsements for Brooks or other leather saddles? Thanks for your wisdom.

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http://www.streetsblog.org/2013/04/15/you-can-now-subscribe-to-citi-bike...

Citibike is is open to subscribers for payment...

while MTA looks to fare hikes for funds.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/sandy-damange-mta-issue-article-1.13...

http://ridewithgps.com/routes/2338528

Was wondering if the road is safe to ride on weekdays if one is going solo. I'm only familiar with the bike route 9 from ny to bear mountain. Are the roads well mapped? And are the shoulders safe in that area?

I highly recommend "Laps in Central Park" with Jim Olson. Fantastic leader!, and brings a warm welcome for new memebers who are skeptical about choosing what will be their first ride!

Just wanted to let everyone know that I got a crazy flat on the GW yesterday (complete with a shredded tire and the tube somehow getting wound around my axel) and a fellow NYCC member named Alan happened to be behind me and immediately stopped to help. I just wanted to say thanks again and give him a little recognition. :) 

A  car key labelled 14R3 was found at the meeting point (Kew Gardens Stop) in the area where our B16/B17/B18 groups were gathering prior to yesterday's (4/13) ride. Contact me if it's yours.

Paul  347-370-9305 

Hi all,

It's me again. I really missed NYC this winter, it was a tough one out here in the Catskills.

As some of you already know, I recently moved here from downtown NYC, and I started a blog to record good routes in the Catskills and encourage people to get their butts up here to ride. I've just put together a spring route roundup that pulls the best of together in a single post (there are also lots of additional routes on the blog, I just put the best ones in this post).

I'd like to encourage ALL of you to come out here for a few rides this summer. It is absolutely spectacular country, and all of it is accessible from the Poughkeepsie train station.

Here's the link. Hope to see a lot more people riding out here this summer!