It's that time of the year again.  large turtles crossing Western Hwy to lay their eggs!  Volunteer turtle crossing guards are being recruited(I'm serious) and cyclists should use caution there.

People,

I'm on to lead a B16+ group out of Babylon.  Notes:

- Adjusting for head-tail winds, we will keep to a disciplined 16-17 mph pace for the duration. I will ask all of you who can to take turns pulling.

- As I'm leading an early ride in Staten Island on Sunday, I absolutely-positively need to be on the 5:35PM out of Montauk.  So this group will not take a sit-down lunch. Rather we will be keeping all food-bio stops to 15-30 minutes.  Bring lots of energy bars.

- It's not a difficult cue, but I will have it prepped on Garmin and printed cue.

President Neile writes in his ride write-up for Sunday "the NYCC is reaching out to ...

Time Warner, Thursday 28 May.  Coverage of three cycling events in one day (and one of them twice)?

• Tour of Belgium Stage 1, Thursday May 28, 2015

  • 6:00AM – 7:30AM
  • 407 USN

• UCI Women's Road World Cup, Thursday May 28, 2015

  • 7:30AM – 8:00AM
  • 407 USN

• Tour of Belgium Stage 2,Thursday May 28, 2015

Is south side GW open?

Is the GW south side open during the week?

Was mapping out a ride, and it required two miles of 17a near harriman. I'm not familar with this road, but the ridewithgps photos looked busy with cars. How is cycling on 17A? 

I am grateful to all the leaders and riders who helped make this past weekend diverse in the choice of rides.  Seemed like I heard very few complaints!  

I'll leave it at that as I wouldn't want to be accused of being sentimental.  Hopefully some of you will sign up for July 4th as well, so I can again share your wonderful energy. 

Thank you!

On River Rd in Grand View Sunday, climbing the hill to Upper Grand View, Blauvelt,  Pearl River & Orangetown soccer fields on Orangeburg Rd

A couple years ago I teased on the MB that a source told me that Bloomberg would declare CP car-free before he left office. Maybe you noticed he didn't. Now I can, or at least will say who that source was: Doug Blonsky, head of the Central Park Conservancy and a friend of Bloomberg and who, so he said, had Bloomberg's ear, and Bloomberg, his.