I just noticed that Davis Phinney is doing a reading from his book at the Barnes and Noble in Tribeca at 6pm on Wednesday.  For those youngsters out there, Davis was one of the great American cyclists of the 1980's and I believe but could be wrong, the first American to win a road stage at the TDF.  Oh, and he is the father of the up and coming Taylor Phinney.  The book is about cycling and his battle with Parkinson's disease.

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/The-Happiness-of-Pursuit/Davis-Phinney/e/9780547315935

Is there a way to search the message board for past messages posted via "author", "subject", whatever?

Thanks.

Thank you both for organizing yet another fantastic NYCC weekend in the Berks. I'm already counting down the days until next year!

Just wanted to publicly acknowledge and thank the Lantern House Memorial Day Weekend trip organizers (Paul H, Patricia K, Gary M and other trip leaders that were there) who all took care of us there and essentially teamed up in making the pre-trip/trip arrangements.  I apologize if I left other notaable trip leader names out (tired and hungry on a Sunday night after a ride).  Also wanted to give a thank you shout out to all the NYCC riders staying there who made it all a fun weekend. Hope to see you all on another ride, perhaps a reunion ride. 

I always had fond memories of my C-SIG experiences, so I really do like hanging with this crew (in addition to the other SIG crews).  

Having had a wonderful weekend with the club in the Berkshires, it's time to look forward to our next fabulous club trip - West Point!

Long shot, but anyone want to go for a ride in or around Middlebury CT on Saturday June 4th, in the afternoon? I'm heading up to cheer, but not compete, for the olympic and half-ironman triathlons that weekend, and hoping to get a ride in.

Maybe like 40-50 miles? A19-ish pace? But I'm flexible on both of those :)

After further consideration, the ride to Little Tor is cancelled. It's too rainy and the roads are too wet.

We hope to re-post the ride in a few weeks under clear skies.

We'll meet as planned at 9 AM since the forecast shows the rain tapering off sharply mid-morning.

Should it still be pouring at the start we'll reassess.

We still want to ride! However, obviously we will not if it continues with this down-pour. The weather forecast tells us the chance of precipitation decreases significantly into almost nothing in about an hour....

We are still planning to meet at Grants Tomb for 8:30, but if, at 8:30, it is still carrying on like this (thunder, lightning rain, rain and rain) then, we will regrettfully cancel the ride.

Anyone have any tips about getting here?

Spent a couple of hours (mostly walking with my bike) through Van Cortlandt Park trying to find the "bike path" that leads to the South County Trail...really gravelly, lots of railroad tie type retainers in the trail, and not fun on a road bike, even with 28c tires.

Is there really a trail through the park, or is it better to just take Broadway up and then Caryl Avenue over to the trail?

And, once you're at the trail proper (just out of the north side of the park), is it paved, or more gravelly stuff?