Maybe it's the availability of complete wheelsets that fewer and fewer people have wanted to learn how to build a wheel so those wanting to learn just wheel truing will be accommodated this year. 

Wheelbuilding class will be from 9:30 - 2:30 on a Saturday or Sunday in Jan. or Feb., the actual date to be determined by vote of those signing up. Wheelbuilders will start with their own rim, spokes, and hub and leave with their own perfectly built wheel they'll have built themselves.

It's vanity, I know, but I presume to think the, then, new president's "last message," now twenty-five years old, is still relevant. http://rosenthaladvertising.com/25_yr.html

I just noticed a White Bike at the Tallman cut-off on 9W in Sparkill. When did this happen?

This message from Port Authority at 9:15am:

"The GWB Sidewalk is closed due to icing conditions. Updates will be posted as they become available."

http://www.velonews.com/2016/06/news/chris-horners-bike-throw-stack_409157

MAY MMXVII BE BETTER THAN MMXVI

AND NOT AS GOOD AS MMXVIII!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Geo Carl Kaplan

Last Sunday Piermont Avenue was full of black ice Sunday Morning. Considering a ride this Saturday but don't want to repeat the black ice experience.  If anyone is riding today(Friday) please report on the road conditions. around there.

She must have taken the A-Classic SIG!

http://www.velonews.com/2016/09/news/ca-woman-rides-her-bicycle-147-mph-a-new-world-record_420507

Happy holidays to all,

Susan

A former NYCC member asked me to post:

Calling all cycling photographers - see the link below for the 1st Annual Mark Gunter Photographer of the Year Awards.

Mark was an incredibly talented international cycling photographer who passed away at the young age of 41 as a result of oesophageal cancer. His wife has partnered with CyclingTips to launch the awards in her husbands name: https://cyclingtips.com/2016/12/the-first-annual-mark-gunter-photography-awards/

I have registered a written complaint with PA of NY&NJ regarding the lack of maintenance of the GWB path.  The ever-growing shards of glass, not only on the NY side ramp, but throughout the bridge now, plus all the large car parts (fenders, etc) thrown over the divider after traffic accidents, seems to just lay in the pathway and never get cleaned up.  One of the most offensive areas is the filth on the sidewalk as one enters from the NY side (on 178th St), which seems to grow each day.  I would urge and encourage others to register a written (email) complaint on the website as well.  If they receive many, possibly someone will take notice.

http://www.panynj.gov/feedback/