At this coming Tuesday's meeting, at Annie Moore's Restaurant and Pub, 50 E. 43rd St. (bet. Mad. and Vand. Aves.), the club is offering a free refillable flask of our October meeting sponsor's First Endurance EFS Liquid Shot for the first 36 attendees who purchase dinners. The EFS Liquid Shot flasks retail for $5.99 and you can choose one of three flavors: Vanilla (my favorite), Wild Berry and their new Kona Mocha, as long as the supply lasts. For more information about this terrific and other First Endurance products please check out their web site: www.firstendurance.com.

What shifters are compatible with Shimano DuraAce 9-speed? Ultegra, I'd guess. 105s, too. SRAM? Others?
Thanks.

Kaboom sideways while sweep-marshalling the 100 mile route on Sunday's Twin Lights ride - - fall caused by avoiding a massive SUV backing up blindly from diagonal parking (like in Englewood; but with only 1 narrow lane here each way in Brielle, NJ). We weren't going fast, and luckily were anticipating that risk. Still got impacted, though.

 Crossed/bumped my front wheel with the rear of the person ahead of me. Almost righted myself, but then went down on the opposite side of where my wheel crossed his. I fell directly sideways on right side; pretty much from a dead stop. Felt/heard my helmet hit (bounced twice). Slid a bit, some scrapes but not much. No breaks, concussions, or such.

The ticket I received which I posted on this Message Board last week remains unresolved. One poster advised fighting it, but this might hinge on what the cost of the infraction is vs the value of my time. 

Try as I might, I cannot get an answer to this penalty of the violation. I cannot get a human being on the phone from DMV to answer the question. It does not appear on the ticket or online, at least that I can uncover.

There is something wrong with giving a choice to plead guilty or not but having no idea what the penalty is. Justice might be blind, but she is not minding the store either.

Hi! I'm just wondering when sign-up for the 2013 SIGs and STSs will be open. I'm already excited to sign up and don't want to miss my chance!

Thanks,

Tara

thanks for major taylor friends and robert for doing the 7 deadly hills with me.  what a workout.

there's a new king of the mountain - simon from major taylor.  he beat everyone, hands down, on all 7 hills.  even on the last hill, i gave the others a head start and he still passed everyone.

Hi there, 

Being new to cold weather cycling, I'm not so sure what approach is best.  I'm thinking nycc pros can help here :)

I recently went up to Nyack (from LES) for the 2nd time and found I had issues with one of my knees. I've heard things like "keep your knees warm" but Saturday's temperature didn't seem to warrant full tights (60F or so) - short bibs and short sleeve jersey felt fine as long as I was moving. I don't think I'll be riding in the dead of winter (20F and such) but I'd love to ride until ice/snow become a problem. Any advise would be greatly appreciated. 

Thanks in advance,

SF

I have to attend an overnight retreat at Stony Mountain Center on Thursday evening into Friday morning.  We're supposed to be finished by noon so I'm thinking that will give me enough time to get in a quick trip up Bear Mountain.

The thing is that I don't really know how to get there.  Does anyone know that are well and could provide me with some rudimentary directions?

Thanks, Matt

So, I was climbing on the River Road/GWB connector path this morning, and near the top of the hill I cone across a late 30s looking couple and their toddler child on the path. They have a large stroller, but the kid is outside the stroller toddling along.

Between the width of the stroller, which is all the way to my left, and Dad/kid's positions side-by-side in the middle of the path, they're occupying about two-thirds of the width of the path.

As I pass, I comment, matter-of-factly: "There will be fast cyclists coming down this hill. You may want to walk single-file." Per the topic name, was that out of line? I'll share the reaction this elicited in a followup...

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I'm getting back into bicycling after a long hiatus and have newly rejoined the NYCC forum.  Can anyone reccommend a good forum to ask questions on?  Obviously this is a great forum ;-)  My interests are: Commuting, theft prevention, new bicycle purchase, internally geared hubs, and maybe even belt drive.  A quick search found these forums:

• http://www.bikeforums.net/
• http://www.twospoke.com/forum/
• http://www.bikeblognyc.com/
• http://www.cyclingforums.com/
• http://nycbikecommuter.info/