This Sunday 2/26 B-17+ ride to Great Falls in Paterson NJ.

Let's take a ride to the newest National Park: Great Falls National Historic Park in Paterson NJ. We'll see the eponymous waterfall on the Passaic River and take a quick tour of the nearby Paterson Museum  with various industrial exhibits that include the first modern submarine prototype. Along the way, we'll stop for lunch at a kosher restauraunt in Fair Lawn.  

I rode Seven Lakes Dr in Harriman today, just after the traffic circle where Seven Lakes/Rte 6 converge  there is an improvised ?memorial with flowers stuck in a water bottle, a bike tire and candles.  Anyone know if there was an accident there?

http://nycc.org/node/55305

Probably the library's longest and most confusing ride description. The cue sheet is more like a treasure hunt than directions. Paradoxically, this point to point ride is nebulous, a metaphor for the journey of life itself.

Should you do this ride, pack a lunch; you will need it.

"German inventor Dirk Strothmann has created what he claims is a small, no-contact, self-contained dynamo bike light.  According to Strothmann, his fork- or brake caliper-mounted Magnic Light works with any type of metallic wheel rims. While other contactless dynamos do exist, those incorporate wheel-mounted magnets. Dirk's product, however, has the magnets in the dynamo, and utilizes eddy currents. In a nutshell, these are electrical currents that are induced in a conductor, when that conductor is exposed to a changing magnetic field."

Most of you have probably read about products containing brown rice syrup having relatively high levels of arsenic.  Cliff bars and gel bloks use brown rice syrup.  I just got off the phone with their customer service and their position is quite disappointing.  They basically suggested they are confident in their product despite the fact that they could not say that they have tested for levels of arsenic in their brown rice syrup since this study was published.

How is the surface on the Joseph B. Clarke rail trail between Ash Street and Oak Tree Road? Is it manageable on 23 tires?

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2012/02/17/sports/cycling/17reuters-cycling-hour-1.html?_r=1&src=me&ref=sports

Saw this tucked in another thread. 

http://www.velojoy.com/2012/02/16/bold-new-direction-for-new-york-cycle-club/

Very cool.

A wonderful article about Ellen was buried in another thread where it might not  be as well seen as it would in its own thread. So, credit to N. Davis who posted it at:  http://nycc.org/message-board/our-testimony-city-council-we-need-police-..., but I've lifted the link to the article so it's here: http://www.velojoy.com/2012/02/16/bold-new-direction-for-new-york-cycle-club/

this is a test.  this is only a test.