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For Sale: small women's Bianchi

Submitted by KEdwards on Wed, 05/04/2011 - 8:55pm

Size 44 frame, 105 components, triple crankset, good condition, only 2 years old.

See craigslist ad if interested....

http://newyork.craigslist.org/brk/bik/2363105913.html

 

Looking to borrow a track bike for a good cause!

Submitted by CPerea on Wed, 05/04/2011 - 6:22pm

Anyone have a track bike (I ride a 58cm road bike... could probably fit a 57-60cm somewhat comfortably) I could borrow on June 5th to ride 100 miles on the Kissena Velodrome?  If not, I'll just do it on my road bike, but I thought it would be challenging/stupid to do it on a track bike/fixie.  I can give you a case of beer and loan you one of my bikes a collateral or something... I'm a pretty trustworthy fellow though.  Let me know!  Thanks!

-Carlos

Berkshires Dinner for 2 available

Submitted by Alavine on Wed, 05/04/2011 - 4:50pm

Hi,

We will not be able to make the weekend in the Berkshires and have two tickets for the dinner dance we would like to sell.  Paid for thru PayPal.  Any takers??

Thanks,

Alan LaVine

[email protected]

Tonight's Manhattan Evening Ride is RESCHEDULED

Submitted by THutter on Wed, 05/04/2011 - 4:02pm

Tonight's Manhattan Evening Ride is RESCHEDULED for next Wednesday, May 11.

Trump on bike races

Submitted by RRosenthal on Wed, 05/04/2011 - 3:08pm

This being Bike Month, I will celebrate it with you in my own, typically skewed way. This will be the first of my three observations of it, two of which look back which, when you get to your dotage, you tend to do.

Donald Trump—who, and you're hearing it here, is NOT going to run for president*—attached his name to an eminent multi-stage bike race that attracted some of the great Euro-pros. It lasted all of two years before it morphed into the Tour Dupont where it lasted for six more.

Let's review:

Tour de France: 1903 - present

Giro d'Italia (which starts Sunday): 1909 - present

Tour de Trump: 1989 - 1990.

bike repair app for iPhone - $2.99

Submitted by NWeissman on Wed, 05/04/2011 - 1:49pm

http://bikerepairapp.com/

That and 30 lbs. of hand tools and you're set for Nyack.

Personal Messages, and how to access/return them

Submitted by Cmoore on Wed, 05/04/2011 - 12:39pm

So I have received messages via email "via [my] contact form" and have tried to access the links listed to make a reply, but am told by the system that I am unauthorized to access them. Anybody able to guide me to enabling this?

South Brooklyn bike thread

Submitted by arvi on Wed, 05/04/2011 - 10:35am

I have sacriligeously pulled up stakes from the UWS after a couple years and moved back to Brooklyn. I miss waking up at 8:45 to make 9am rides at Eleanor, but it's nice to have spaaaace again.

Anyway, figured I'd start a thread to canvas my newly-fellow Brooklyn people out there. To start with: what's your shop? I used to swear by Innvoation on 106th st (work done cheap and fast; made my bike shiny). Where to go now? Ride Brooklyn seems promising. Does Cobble Hill/Carroll Gardens have a decent shop? Doesn't seem like it, based on google/yelp.

Oyster Bay Ride and Row is back on June 4 (June 18th rain date)

Submitted by ckulesh on Wed, 05/04/2011 - 8:59am

Oyster Bay Ride & Row is back for a third year, to give NYCC cyclists a taste of rowing in an 8-person racing shell with coaches from Sagamore Rowing Association.

Date: June 4, 2011

The ride is now posted and it requires sign-up and payment in advance.

We'll split into an A-20ish group led by George Arcarola and a B-17ish group led by Claudia Kulesh. We'll ride 25 miles to Oyster Bay, grab our lunch in town, and head over to the SRA's boathouse on Beekman Beach.

Interesting NYT article on sugars good or bad? fructose vs glucose.

Submitted by GYang on Wed, 05/04/2011 - 7:43am

"A cluster of new studies suggests that people who regularly work out don’t need to worry unduly about consuming fructose or other sugars. In certain circumstances, they may even find the sweet stuff beneficial."

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/04/how-sugar-affects-the-body-in-m...

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