Just wanted to let everyone know that I got a crazy flat on the GW yesterday (complete with a shredded tire and the tube somehow getting wound around my axel) and a fellow NYCC member named Alan happened to be behind me and immediately stopped to help. I just wanted to say thanks again and give him a little recognition. :) 

A  car key labelled 14R3 was found at the meeting point (Kew Gardens Stop) in the area where our B16/B17/B18 groups were gathering prior to yesterday's (4/13) ride. Contact me if it's yours.

Paul  347-370-9305 

Hi all,

It's me again. I really missed NYC this winter, it was a tough one out here in the Catskills.

As some of you already know, I recently moved here from downtown NYC, and I started a blog to record good routes in the Catskills and encourage people to get their butts up here to ride. I've just put together a spring route roundup that pulls the best of together in a single post (there are also lots of additional routes on the blog, I just put the best ones in this post).

I'd like to encourage ALL of you to come out here for a few rides this summer. It is absolutely spectacular country, and all of it is accessible from the Poughkeepsie train station.

Here's the link. Hope to see a lot more people riding out here this summer!

http://www.silive.com/news/index.ssf/2013/04/jail_probation_and_commuity_se.html

The differences? This man was sentenced for a felony and got, however modest, jail time; whereas Priya Nanda, Max's killer.... 

Rain, dammit

Please consider signing. It too an important issue to lose.

http://www.change.org/petitions/connect-the-putnam-trail-in-van-cortland...

Hello, I'm new to NYCC and my first ride is Saturday. We meet at Sakura Park. I was thinking of riding straight over through Randalls Island. Any thoughts or suggestions would be much appreciated. 

I'm asking because I'm still new to New York. I took my bike over the 59th street bridge to CP a few days ago. I'm sure there is a better way, but the the way I took from the bridge to the park was horrible. I can't believe I wasn't hit by a car. So this time I'm going to ask for some advice rather than get turned into a pancake. 

Thank you. 

Hey everybody, Chico here, I was at the Boathouse today when I saw a cyclist get stopped for slowly running the red light right in front of the BH. There was nobody in the cross walk, and the cyclist wasn't riding wrecklessly. He was stopped, and due to not having a photo ID, he was taken away in handcuffs. I watched them load him, and his bike into a NYPD van, and I was told he would "just be brought to the precinct for identification". I was told that thanks to the CP Captain, red light enforcement is being scrutininzed again, so be careful. And sidenote, as I was stopping for the light at around 63rd, another cyclist stopped abruptly along side me, a woman on her bike behind him jammed her brakes, and went over her bars onto her face.

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Inspector Hurly, NYPD: Most cyclists are responsible for their own deaths.

TA exec. director Paul White decorously stuffed that wrong-headed thought right back down the inspector's throat by observing dead cyclists have a certain inability to testify to the contrary. (Of course the sarcasm is mine, not Paul's. As noted, he is much too decorous.)

CP precinct commander Capt. Corey: "We are always doing enforcement."

Me: Ya think? Does this really require a rejoinder? OK, I'll go first: I've been riding in the park for 33 years. I've yet to see a driver ticketed for speeding or being in the park when cars were not allowed in the park. But I'm open to the fact you have.