Leaders already have the excellent feature to send e-mail to the ride participants from the ride management interface. Unfortunately, not everyone has mobile e-mail or checks e-mail or the message board the morning before a ride. For late-breaking changes (even if they were done 9-10 hours in advance people could still miss it), the ability to use a web form to send a text message (SMS) to ride participants could prove quite useful. As with all such things it depends on good data: this feature assumes that partiicpants have entered a valid mobile telephone number in their profile but those who do not check their e-mail or the message board and do not have a mobile phone simply assume the risk that they show up for a ride which has changed start time or location or cancelled.

As last year, available here:

http://www.pankin.com/miles.htm

Have a Merry!

I would like to take a moment to thank the 2012 NYCC board for its service and to welcome the folks who stepped up to the plate and took on the role for 2013.  It has been a pleasure, personally, to have served on a board whose sole purpose is to give back to a community which asks very little of us, but works so hard to make things better.

Congratulations Jay on achieving your 2012 goal of riding 9000 miles as of yesterday. And, for leading a terrific ride today, even though I did bail early.

Congratulations Jay on achieving your 2012 goal of riding 9000 miles as of yesterday. And, for leading a terrific ride today, even though I did bail early.

Given our route, the weather and the time of our lunch reservation I've pushed the start time back to a 10 AM departure. Plenty of room left on the ride. I spoke to the restauraunt, they can give us a table for 20 and accomodate another 5-6 people at another table (at which point we've pretty much taken over the entire place -- which they think is great). At this writing there are 13 spots available.

http://nycc.org/node/59305

Lunch is at Royal Persian Grill in Teaneck.

Note: there is < 10% chance of rain or snow by 9AM in Manhattan. The rain will certainly stop by 6 AM.

And so the iceberg tip emerges from the cold sea.. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/cycling/20833119