Below ....from a recent Paul Kimmage piece.

for years Kimmage has been one of few courageous public voices about the truth behind this fairy tale.

Feels like the wheels are falling off professional cycling. Omega Pharma-Quick Step firing of Levi Leipheimer seems like an attempt to enforce silence.

UCI's credibility is shot. Who will lead the sport out of this morass?

As someone on our Club ride cracked his helmet today with a hairline crack in the inner center foam support, I'm posting the Giro and Bell Helmet replacement info. that we sent to the person tonight.  (He's fine, bike is fine. No NYCC accident report is required)

For our records and future Message Board text seach functionality, here is the Bell and Giro helmet replacement info. as of today, Oct. 21:

GIRO:

http://www.giro.com/us_en/customer-service/cycling-helmet-faqs/

Anyone else not like to ride at 6am? In the dark? And the cold!? I'm planning to ride upstate on Wednesday and/or Thursday  (from Brooklyn). I don't usually do anything fancy. Usually just a muffin in Piermont via River Rd. and home via 9W. However, I'm flexible on routes/destinations. Anyone also flexibly employed and care to join? A20-25.

Last time I was out there, a couple of weekends ago, the pavement from about 60% of the crossing to about 90%, coming from the Queens side to the Manhattan, was ground down to some kind of metal gridwork with underlying pavement in the interstices. But not even close to flush with the top of the gridwork. Pretty unpleasant to ride on, especially coming westbound as a descent. I assume this was a stage in a repaving project. Has repaving proceeded and the problem been fixed? Or if not, when might we expect it'll be done?

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I hate to be a curmudgeon about this, but am I the only one who thinks these things have gotten overly frequent?

October 21, 2012                                                                                                

NEW YORK STATE LAUNCHES NATIONAL MOUNTAIN BIKING LEAGUE

Interscholastic Cycling Competition for High School Students

(Dobbs Ferry, NY – September 20, 2012)

Hi folks,

Douwe and I are doing a perambulating ride to Piermont, replete with a maple-bacon donut stop and oodles of hills to metabolize the porcine pastries.... 

http://nycc.org/node/59702

However the link is temporarily malfunctioning, telling us that the ride has already happened.... This has prevented a few people from signing on (and has made a few people return to their Cartesian mode of reality-questioning). 

So just know that the ride is on, and we hope that the glitch will be fixed before the ride actually (not virtually) occurs.

J & D

Hi old friends and new...I'll be in NYC the last week in November. Help me empty a smallish storage locker on the West side and my 24 inch (fairly large) carbon Specialized Roubaix Elite is yours, along with some other sports equipment. Of course, you could also sell the stuff. Vehicle helpful but probably cab or 2 will do. Bike is 7 years old but in great shape, not ridden in 2 years. All Ultegra components, Ksyrium wheels. If I had the time, I would distribute the stuff to Recycle-a-Bicycle and Housing
Works, but I just won't have time. [email protected]