Who could forget the first time they stepped on a two-wheel bike and balanced for the first time?

Freedom, speed, independence, and joy were at their fingertips! It's a life-changing moment. And a moment that many New Yorkers have never experienced. Thousands of New Yorkers have never had the chance to learn how to ride a bicycle.

Unfortunately, at the beginning of a group ride this past saturday, I got a ticket for stopping at a red light, then rolling through with no cars/pedestrians in sight (two others with me also got tickets) along riverside drive around Columbia.  The cop said that he had to due to people complaining and they had to show they were present.   The cop was also "generous" and only gave a rules of the road violation which maxes at $50 as opposed to a traffic ticket with a min of $190.  I asked the cop that even though we came to a complete stop, checked, then rolled through he had to ticket us (mind you, while stopped, over ~30 cyclist ran the exact same redlight 50ft behind us).  He again said he had to cause people were calling in and complaining.

Considering I'm from Iowa and try to stay in touch with what is going there (although i went to ISU which has the VRAC, instead of UofI), this is still an interesting article about bike safety.

http://www.dailyiowan.com/2012/07/20/Sports/29198.html

This is in the field i am in (Human Factors Engineering) and its nice to see it focus on an activity I love.

I came across a page on Cycling weekly where they asked readers to submit their designs for a new Team Sky kit..

This one was my favourite..

I had to withdraw (and thought I did it a week ago).

So there's a spot open on the sign-up page, for the mah-velous Mitch ride July 29--he's the host with the most, if you don't already know.

Please, someone take my place and tell me about it later, so I can at least enjoy it vicariously.

Hi all, 

I will be in Bridgehampton this weekend (7/27) and would like to do a 30-40 mile ride. Anyone know of a ride I can do?

Thanks in advance!

Cara

Apparently there's a ticketing blitz going on in Prospect Park today.

It's naive to think that what takes place on Hudson Terrace or in Central Park doesn't eventually effect those of us who never ride there.

http://brooklynian.com/forum/park-slope/ticketing-cyclists-in-prospect-p...

Britania rules the Tour. Madge is back. All in all a pretty good day. 

hw

I'm trying to find news about something I saw happen on the Hamptons Wounded Warrior Soldier ride http://www.woundedwarriorproject.org/programs/soldier-ride.aspx yesterday (Saturday 7/21). I was not a participant, but I was nearby when I saw this incident. The ride was going west on route 27 in or near Amagansett. I was headed east on a solo ride. There was an intersection where a ride marshal was holding back cross traffic for the ride to pass through. Suddenly, a brown pickup blew past the marshal into the intersection and right into the middle of the ride. The marshal was running alongside the pickup, knocking on the driver side window, shouting at it to stop.