I want to give a shout-out to our leaders of the "Off the Beaten Pavement" series of rides, which have been ongoing most Sundays since September.

A group of (mostly) A-Classic leaders and riders have been pushing themselves on dirt roads, gravel and trails, riding road bikes with fatter tires, cross or gravel bikes.  Over the years they have been doing it, they've developed a lot of know-how and forged new routes outside of our more familiar roads, but often in familiar NYCC riding areas. 

The Times is a trove of articles of interest to cyclists today whose interests are a bit wider than the road in front of you.

nytimes.com/2017/10/23/sports/iditarod-dog-doping-dallas-seavey.html

Interesting that the GWB path (one assumes the north path) is "closed due to adverse weather."  They don't usually close it for rain, and it's not cold enough to be icey, so I assume it's wind. But the wind speed is less than 20 mph, and I don't recall them closing it for that in the past. Perhaps there's more lightening up there than I'm seeing midtown (none here).

The forecast is for rain starting at 5:00 AM.

Prospect Park will finally be car free!

http://gothamist.com/2017/10/23/prosect_park_car_free.php

My sister represents twin artists, who would like to do a showing of their work in NYC. We need a venue that can support showing 10-20 paintings.  This would be during the week of 

Anybody have any ideas?

Here's the artists' web site.

Thanks for any help in making this happen.

Eric

Anyone know what the ride was that came down the west side highway with a police escort around 11am Sunday morning?

26 letters in the alphabet.

14 members of the board.

4 of their last names start with the same letter.

That's 26%.

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As it happens, the name of the candidate who withdrew also started with that same letter.