Mary Lou’s beloved Kona was stolen from the rack outside of the Honest Weight Food Co-op two nights ago. It was locked and the lock was cut, as was the lock on a blue Cannondale that was next to it. We will be doing a pre or post critical mass “look for Mary Lou’s bike” ride. If interested please let us know!
If you see this bike, throw a lock or ten around it and call the police.
I want to ask everyone to do a big favor for me. Santa cruz has this really cool ride called Hellride, anyone can enter. About 1000 riders enter, they narrow it down to 16 riders. I made the cut. From those 16, they take the top 4 riders based on how many votes they get. Thats where you come in. Go to the Santa Cruz bicycle website, on the front page, there is a link to Hellride 5. Click on the link and vote for me, J wozniak on the Moots. This would be an awesome ride to be able to do, so please go vote, and vote often, and tell anyone you can to go and also vote for me. To make it easy, I have included the link that you can use to go and vote for me. Thank you so much. J Wozniak.
http://www.santacruzmtb.com/hellridefive/voteforpedro.php
Jay
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Thanks to all 19 of you for coming out and having a blast fooling around in graveyards this past weekend despite the heat and humid and smelly undead. Those of you who were complete pussies missed a great rid, and kickass prizes including an Ultegra front wheel, a SRAM Force brakeset, and a very useful copy of the Zombie Survival Guide. Too bad all the blisters drove the CBRC guys home, there was beer. Socks, guys. Great inventions.
Zombienade top five:
Greater Albania Piracy season standings
Next race, the dreaded Uphill Both Ways, is tentatively scheduled for Aug 2.
This is music to my ears. From the article:
The owner of Dixon’s Bicycle Shop in Park Slope, Brooklyn, David Dixon, said that over Memorial Day weekend, his store sold all 25 of its Jamis hybrid bikes - a cross between a racing bike and a mountain bike that sells for between $285 and $335 and is favored among commuters. Early this week, Mr. Dixon called Jamis to order about 50 more bikes and was told that a shipment wouldn’t arrive until the end of the week. “They’re all gone. It’s wicked,” Mr. Dixon said. “This isn’t usual at all. The price of gas is affecting everyone.”
“We ended up selling very heavily,” the owner of Bicycle Habitat in SoHo, Charles McCorkell, said. “I thought there would be a shortage.”
Read more at Streetsblog
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Race 9pm, 8:30pm Registration
HJ & State at the Memorial, Albany
Because cops won’t expect zombie shenanigans this far away from Halloween.
As always, we shall be ending at my favorite little corner bar with cheap eats and plentiful beer.
There will be art! Scene kids! Drunk trashy people! Bike cops on poorly fit rebadges! Math! A great carrying of things! And some of the finest tarmac in the city of Albany. Ride any uni or bike or trike you like; as long as it’s got wheels and pedals and is you-powered, it’s all good. You will not be turned away for excess spandex or your lack of white belts.
Entry fee gets you a neato handmade spoke card and a shot at being the baddest ass in the Capital Region.
Pre-registration via email to soze@fork-bomb.com is encouraged for planning purposes. Dear god help me make a better guess at how many of these damn cards I gotta make.
PS - please don’t get me arrested.
Hey you! Got game?
Good! Come to the summer’s first bike polo game in Troy. Don’t worry if you have never played before; you are not alone. Come on out, have a beer, and kick some ass!
The date: this Sunday, June 1st.
The time: 3pm till whenever.
The location: Russell Sage parking lot in downtown Troy, on 1st St in between Division & Liberty.
Fine print: BYOB (bike and/or beer) - ALL BIKES ARE WELCOME. Fixed/single speed not required. Polo mallets & balls will be provided, and if you don’t want to scratch your precious bike’s paint job, well…bring a different bike. It can get rough out there. Finally, for rules (what rules?), the ones laid out on Jeff’s site are pretty damn good.
Group ride out from Gavin’s place at 2ish.
The Ride of Silence to commemorate cyclists killed by automobiles is Wednesday at 6 pm. This is a nation-wide event.
6 p.m.: Ride of Silence (Albany). Start location: Corning Preserve (downtown Albany). 12-mile route will pass ghost bikes commemorating the deaths of 3 local cyclists. For more details, visit www.rideofsilence.org or email Claire Nolan or Sue Troll.
Also, there will be no TBR tonight due to the RoS.
From Capital News 9:
ALBANY, N.Y. — Bikers are five for five in the annual Commuter Challenge. The race from downtown Albany up Western Avenue is a precursor to Friday’s National Bike to Work Day.
Commuters put the pedal to the metal against a car and a bus. The fastest biker finished the five miles in a little less than 16 minutes. It took the gas-saving Smart Car 21 minutes and the CDTA bus made its stops and finished the route in 44 minutes.
Read the full article or watch the video (featuring Dakota on the tallbike).