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A new menace in Central Park.
I went for my second ride since late October: all of two laps in Central Park. That followed a desultory three laps Monday. Now with those five laps in the bag, I've got all my base miles in.
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Is there some way to include a spell checker?
Encountered some cyclist rage on Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge on the weekend
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCamT_K1OF4&feature=youtu.be
Video footage linked above, thankfully I was riding about with my GoPro on.
2019 Great Finger Lakes Bicycle Tour
Hi Members,
Here is an invitation to NYCC members. If you have questions, please contact Dick Porterfield at [email protected].
Come out June 7-9, 2019 for the 39th rendition of the Great Finger Lakes Bicycle Tour and join about 200 like-minded cyclists in the celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Southern Tier Bicycle Club. The event will be held at the Hidden Valley Group Camp of Watkins Glen State Park in the heart of the beautiful Finger Lakes Region of New York.
New routes accessing Bradley towards Nyack and Tweed
Take Orangetown Clark Trail from its Southern terminus Oak Tree Road in Tappan/Palisades or jump on it at Kings Hwy in Sparkill and/or new section behind Lowe's in Orangeburg. One option is to exit trail at Bataan/Mtn View (Bataan named after WWII bloody battle In Phillippines) or continue on trail to Northern end. If you take Mtn View, pass D'Arte restaurant strip on right(excellent bakery--tell Rolfe you are a friend of Jay's!) At 303 press silver button and carefully cross. Follow Greenbush as it curves left .
New LIRR South Fork Train And Shuttle Services (with caveats!)
(I talk about trains enough on here, I should share the good news when it comes around)
http://web.mta.info/lirr/SouthForkCommuterConnection/index.htm
"The South Fork Commuter Connection (SFCC) is a coordinated rail and bus system created to operate during peak commuting hours in order to provide workers with a public transportation travel option.
This service starts on Monday, March 4, 2019. It will operate Monday through Friday year-round, except for major legal holidays and on Fridays during the summer.
At least one hydration guideline disputed
Dangerous potholes and gravel at the intersection of 9W and Rockland road (turnoff to Tallman State Park)
As Wencheng Lin has already posted on the group's Facebook page, there are a couple of potholes, as well as a ton of gravel at the intersection of Rockland Road and 9W (the turnoff to Tallman State Park). If you're not familiar with it, there's a little bit of a descent there if you're coming from Ft. Lee, so you can pick up a bit of speed, and before you know it, you're on top of the pothole. If you go left, you're putting yourself into traffic, and if you go right, there's a *ton* of gravel, which caused a crash with the group I was riding with yesterday that resulted in at least one injury.
NY Times plays catch-up ball: publishes obit of Major Taylor, black world cycling champion, 86 ½ years late.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/obituaries/major-taylor-overlooked.html
Let us not feel too smug that we've long passed the time of repulsive discrmination against and vile treatment of black cyclists. Well within my lifetime as an adult, in the 1960s, New York's vaunted racing organization, the Century Road Club Association (CRCA) barred black cyclists from competing! (See, for example, the ineffably sad story of Brooklyn's Metzler Brothers in Peter Nye's "Hearts of Lions: The History of American Bicycle Racing.") (If you're the person, now forgotten, to whom I loaned it, please return it.)
