If you've missed one of the other foliage rides, are still looking for one to do this Saturday, and you can handle an A19-20 pace for ~75 miles, come join us for a ride to the Old Indian Ridge from Tarrytown Saturday morning. This listing went up this morning, so (obviously) you wouldn't have seen it as an option prior to today. The node can be found at:

http://nycc.org/node/59680

Great recent NPR story about a man's weight-loss efforts, and a cycling community's embrace of him:

http://www.npr.org/2012/10/09/162586325/instead-of-surgery-man-pedals-off-the-pounds

http://www.roadbikerider.com/current-newsletter#newsletter-ask-coach-fred

Hiya folks, 

NYCC newcomer Douwe Busschops and I are planning a spontaneous foliage-viewing / easy recovery ride to Piermont on Thursday at the crack of noon. 

Just send Douwe an email if the ride isn't posted in time....  

[email protected]

Gazzizza,

Jer

"Bowen-Davies and dozens of his fellow students from the University of Maryland are chasing one of aviation's last milestones: the Sikorsky Prize.

may be old news but here is a NYT article from tonight...

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/18/sports/cycling/inquiry-into-kayle-leogrande-led-to-lance-armstrongs-eventual-fall.html

As Darren has told us in recent posts, the waitlist feature of our online ride listings is still a work in progress.  Because this feature is not yet fine-tuned, it's possible for people to end up as a participant on more than one ride on the same day.

This Saturday's fall foliage rides are no exception; I see quite a few double-listed riders.  I know that a lot of people are still hoping to get spots on one of these rides, so please:

On October 30th Mike Taylor, the senior partner at Hopkins Architects, who designed the Olympic Velodrome, will be lecturing as part of The Architectural League of New York's Current Work series. Among other projects, I'm told that he is going to devote considerable time to the design and performance of the Velodrome. If you're interested in architecture and cycling this might be worth a look: 

  I don't see any listings for the annual Connecticut Shoreline Ride.  Is it not happening this year?

Nike drops Lance Armstrong as he steps down at Livestrong - ESPN

So... no titles, no charity, and no sponsors, his ruination is pretty much complete here. 

Well, one can only hope that it'll be good for cycling in the end. That, somehow, this restores integrity to the sport rather than reinforcing the perception that there's no point in doing it with any integrity.