Be advised that there is construction on Saxon Woods Road in White Plains north of Saxon Woods Park. While you can walk around the barricade and resume cycling and ride past the 2nd barricade, the construction equipment has heavily damaged the road. It looks like the road is being rebuilt -- not milled and repaved, torn up and a new roadbed laid. I recommend avoiding the area.

I checked my GPS records. The construction is from just after the intersection of Black Birch Lane to Saxon Wood Park Drive, with broken pavement in many places until Rosedale Avenue. There is another "Road Closed" barricade at Saxon Woods Road and Rosedale; I made the left onto Rosedale Avenue, which wasn't in great shape but better than the construction section of Saxon Woods Road.

We had fun, light work and good fellowship cleaning up the NYCC stretch of 9W. Special thanks to:

Christy Gazzetta, Jody Sayler and Jacky Scalisi for organizing an A rider group:

Gerald Seppey, Andrew Finelstein, Fred Harris, Phil Jeffrey, Margaret Bania, Charlie Collins and Alan Resnick.

And to Linda Wintner and Brett Koven for organizing and leading a B group:

Julie Blackburn, Dawn Wheatley, Valli Weiss, Jay Jacobson, Michael Roth, Manung Han, Neile Weissman, Tim Schmutzler, Larry Ach and Scott Wasserman, who stood ready to lead a C group but none showed up.

Also thank you to Peter Storey for driving supplies to the site and to The Market for provding a CP and rallying/relaxing spot.

Now that I have relocated in France, one of my riding buddies, Xavier Lopez, is a former cat.2 racer who organizes tours and cycling training camps in the "pays basque" and the rest of the Pyrenees.  His camps are quite inexpensive compared to most. May and September 2015 are already fully booked, so I thought I would share this info with the NYCC for July and August 2015. There are also customized tours, but because of the weather constraints (roads are closed part of the year), the possibilities during other months are quite limited. You can contact Xavier directly at   [email protected] and check his website at http://www.bikebasque.co.uk/

http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/oct/16/copenhagen-cycling-innovation-lycra-louts-green-wave-bike-bridges

STORY LEAD: http://nypost.com/2014/10/13/model-riding-bike-brain-dead-after-crashing-into-bus-in-nyc/

My garmin 810 thought I was ending a route instead of starting one, so I shut the unit off to restart. Upon restart it would begin its start sequence and immediately after loading maps  would shut down. This would recur repeatedly without fail after every restart. I googled the problem and read that someone else had the experience and the offered suggestion was to remove the optional memory card. I tried this and the 810 now turns on. So I guess I now have a bad or corrupted extra memory card. Anyone have this happen, and is the solution to throw out the card and buy a new one? Is this a known Garmin 810 issue?

Given the Saturday wait lists, I'm posting a hilly, but moderately paced, B15/50.

http://nycc.org/node/72990

Limited bail options until lunch, but by then you've gotten through the hardest portion.

This is worth checking out.  It is a really good idea.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/seatylock/seatylock-bicycle-saddle-...

Ken

(Note: this message was linked from a mail-blast so a lot of people are coming into this from that link)

We are hosting our annual 9W Cleanup Ride - and we need your help!

All B-Riders who are interested in riding and volunteering:

* Our B15 ride still has two ride slots open, so sign up here! http://nycc.org/node/72788

* We are looking to establish a B17 ride! So we need leaders AND riders! If you are interested, email me at
[email protected]