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Open Question regarding SIG Enrollment
Last year, I SAW that enrollment into both the A SIGs and B SIGs were down. I don’t know about the C SIG.
I THINK one of the reasons may have been an NYCC policy change started two or three years ago. We now require all enrollees to any of our SIGS to be current members of our club before they can sign up. Previously, we allowed people to sign up and then determine if they liked what we were doing. If they did, we strongly encouraged they join the club after the second ride.
South Side Path CLOSED Saturday, March 5th
Just in time for the A SIG start, as I'm sure many of you were notified (those who are signed up for PA alerts), the NORTH side walk will be open on Saturday, March 5th, due to repairs on the south side. Cleat covers a must, and patience even more so!
great maintenance ride ...
A great ride for all to enjoy and maintain is the Jones Beach bike path. It's about a 19 mile (round trip) ride from Cedar Creek Park out to Tobay Beach and back again. Cirlce the parking lot 2-3 times to push it past 20 and then go again. It's newly paved with awesome scenery. Cruise or ride a pace line ... ride 2 abreast and have a conversation if that's what you need. Hardly any incline other than the 3 bridges you pass over. Depending of the time you head out, it's fairly easy to get to (35 minutes) and I'm from Brooklyn ... so it's ideal for those that live in Queens or Long Island. Just putting it out there for everyone to see and possibly take advantage of.
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What does NASCAR have to do with cycling?
GWB closed Saturday
This just in from the Port Authority: The GWB South sidewalk will be close on Saturday 3/5/16, for repairs. The North sidewalk will be open.
Greenwich Ct.
Did a ride with Signature Cycles in Greeenwich this past Saturday. It was only one ride, but the area struck me as pretty good for getting rides in. I just looked at the ride library and didn't see anything. Has the NYCC done any rides there? It's literally a 45 minute train ride on Metro North starting from Harlem.
If you're home right now, Sat. night, 9PM, TURN ON TURNER CLASSICS MOVIES: BREAKING AWAY!!!!
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Da Vinci's supposed drawing of and inventing the bicycle is a hoax
The link at the bottom of this note is to a disquisition by a professor at the Glasgow School of Art on Leonardo's supposed invention of the bicycle...debunking it. The passage here is at the very end of it. It's wonderfully droll which is why I post this here. Share this putdown of Italians' pride with all your Italian friends.
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So what was the motive of the forger(s) or the uninitiated discoverer and maintainer with a bad scholarly conscience? Perhaps the following passage, written in 1949 by the Italian literate Curzio Malaparte gives us the answer:
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