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ERS at RSD and 72nd St. will be off limits tomorrow for the steamy NYC Triathlon. Rides departing from there could meet at 73rd so you can cheer on the athletes or meet further noth at 90th or 125th.

Uber phoned me at noon today, when I was sleeping in, begging, "We need your help!"

So I got up and wrote the following to my councilmember, deBlasio, Mark-Viverito, and Rodriguez. I ride a lot in the city and constantly encounter violations and threats from this black plague.

Feel free to copy and paste.

http://www.nyc.gov/html/static/pages/officeofthemayor/contact.shtml

http://council.nyc.gov/d10/html/members/home.shtml

http://council.nyc.gov/d8/html/members/home.shtml

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Dear _________________:

People,

It is raining hard now at 8:40 and there is a 100% probability of thunderstorms for the next coupld hours. I have re-listed the ride to tomorrow when the forecast is excellent.

Jerry Ross

page C10  "Lanterne Rouge" TDF's last man; page D9 "Reality Bikes-training for extreme 100 mile events

Has any one riden this - is it suitable for road bike? look like it would be a nice alternative to 9W between Nayack and Haverstraw.

Plenty of thunderstorm threats along our route north. Forecast substantially different in Manhattan. We will try some other weekend.

Dear C riders,

Hamptons weather for Saturday July 25th is looking perfect for both cycling and ocean swimming. While the weather in the tri-state area arches up to 90, in the Hamptons it will be in the low 80's, low wind, overcast. Please consider joining us as we take the LIRR to Bridgehampton, cycle to East Hampton Main Beach, swim in the ocean, shower, cycle to lunch at Clam Bar, then cycle up to the Montauk Lighthouse and back down for some Roasted Vegetable Pizza and Montauk Microbrewery beer. It's the best of the Hamptons in one day, this time including what looks like the perfect weather.

http://nycc.org/node/74211

Doppeldickend.

It means double butted.

This is not to be confused with "schmuck," which I yelled at a German driver in a Mercedes-Benz who ran me off the road on an Italian mountain, only to later realize he probably thought I was calling his car a jewel, which is what schmuck means in German.

177th street between Ft. Washington and Cabrini has been milled. It's pretty choppy and gravelly, bad even for a milled street. Proceed with caution! 

For the record, many of the streets in WaHi have been milled. In the long run this will be great, but it's taking a very long time for those streets to be paved.