Road Bicycle | Bicycle Sunday Is Back For Summer
Taking Seattle’s most appropriate widen of thoroughfare
I am a cyclist, but it has long been coherent that the pro-Bicycle Sunday throng needs to refocus on pity the road, not seizing the thoroughfare ["Bicycle Sunday: No cars allowed," Your Thursday, Aug. 18].
The without doubt complaint with Bicycle Sunday is that it is a receiving of a of the nicest open streets and waterfronts in our town all is to accepted gain of the biking throng and to the ostracism of the rest of the public. This is all completed beneath the fig-leaf evidence that the pedaling residents needs 8 hours any Sunday, for 12 Sundays during the summer, to learn their small ones how to float a bike.
Hogwash. Why do cyclists obtain to haven the most appropriate widen of thoroughfare in the town for more than half the Sundays any Summer?
Many people wish to use this same space and need a automobile to do so. This includes people pushing through, people with kids who wish to revisit the park, people who are mobility impaired, people who do not own bikes, working people who only wish a good place to go, and family groups with rigging in draw who wish to go fishing or picnicking along the shore. Each of these users is possibly close out or severely hindered by the Bicycle Sunday event.
This eventuality should have been scaled back a long time ago. What keeps it alive is the feeling of exclusivity common by the users, feeble politicians who provide to this crowd, and, unfortunately, a request by a few to give no belligerent in the bike-versus-car debate.
– Chris S. Brown, Seattle
Road Bicycle | Aug 2011 Biking And Trail Events
OK, that was bad … but theGran Fondo NJ float and the joined week end of cycling celebrations willmost unquestionably not be.
Of course, the Gran Fondois not all that’s going on over the forthcoming days — examine out all of these Augustevents!
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Aug 2
New tomountain biking? Jersey Off Road Bicycle Association(JORBA) hosts Beginner Mountain Bike Group Rides at AllaireState Park , every Tuesday. Be ready to beginning soon at 6:00 pm , from the Hospital Roadparking lot. Although everybody is welcome, these rides are primarily for BEGINNERSwho wish an easy-paced and kind float by the trails of Allaire. Thegroup moves usually as swift as the slowest rider, and no a is ever dropped.Helmets, water, a bike, and a request to encounter a few dumb bike-centric folk areall that is required.
Aug 3
Bicyclists andballoonists will span up for a severe BicycleRace at the Warren County Hot Air BalloonFestival . Participating pilots will launch with a bike and bicyclist.After drifting for a fixed stretch or amount of time, the commander willland and let the bicyclist out, who then contingency then race back to theFairgrounds. The group whose supplement earnings to the Fairgrounds initial wins a cashprize. All access fees is to race will be donated to a local gift – the ADM Foundation . Rain date for this unusualevent will be Thursday, Aug 4. Fordetails on participating see the Bicycle Balloon Race page (space is limited).
Aug 4
Marty’s Reliable Cycling hosts their weeklybeginner/intermediate, no drop, unintentional gait hill bike rides on Thursdaysthroughout the summer. Beginners ages 12 and up are welcome. They try to berolling at 6:00 pm , soplan on nearing at around 5:45 pm. The group rides on the trails in Lewis Morris Park . Lewis Morrisis not really rocky, but it is comparatively hilly. The gait will be slow to medium,and no a is left behind. Starts at the Sunrise Lake Parking Lot, 270 MendhamRd., in Morristown. Contact: bkaushansky@gmail.com or come together Marty’s Yahoo Group . Cancellations will beposted on Marty’s Yahoo group by 3:00 pm day of the ride.
Aug 5
Newark ‘s Brick City BikeCollective (BCBC) binds their monthly First Friday Ride from 7:00 to 9:00 pm. Themeetup is at Beaver Street nearby Broad (near the Starbucks Rainbow).
Aug 6
The Hoboken Ski Club wants you to be with them to ridePark Avenue TRAFFIC FREE ! NYC has brought back the Summer Streetsprogram, and Park Avenue will be closed to traffic for 7 miles from the BrooklynBridge to 72nd Street on Saturdays in August. With HSC, you’ll take the PATHtrain to the WTC, then bike over a few blocks to the beginning indicate next to CityHall. The group will float the whole traffic-free highway all the way up to 72ndstreet, then cut in to Central Park to do a double back or two before roving back tothe WTC. It will be about 20 milestotal. The whole float has to be full by 1:00 pm when they open up thestreets to traffic again. RSVP (and more info) at evite.com .NOTE: You MUST RSVP to be told of any eventuality cancellations due to badweather.
Team TownCycle will be keeping a Kids’ Mountain Bike Rideand Clinic at the aged Jungle Habitat site in West Milford. The hospital will introduceyour young kids to the happiness of hill biking in a fun and protected way. Plus there are prizes for all participants – and no access price is required! Starting at 10:00 am , come together Team Town Cycle for a fun filled day of riding, skillbuilding, games and competitions, with prizes from the eventuality sponsors. Any bicycle with rotund tires and in great working orderis authorised to float – it doesn’t have to be a geared hill bike. Helmets are MANDATORY, asare closed toe shoes. A primogenitor or defender mustsign a let go form and contingency be present during the event. For more information, greatfully meeting David Van Wart at 973-390-6915 or Tim Warchol at 973-557-3298 . You can moreover examine out Team Town Cycle’swebsite at www.teamtowncycle.com ,or email info@teamtowncycle.com .
Bike Walk Montclair isholding a Kids Learn to Ride classfrom 10:00 am – 1:00 pm at theMontclair High School Faculty Parking lot on North Fullerton Ave. The new to the cycling exploit pick up toride with the safe, easy, and really “balance first” method. Refreshments will be provided. All students contingency wear a steel sheet and have abicycle that fits. The cyclist contingency be able to rest his or her feet prosaic on theground whilst sitting on the bicycle seat. This category is written for kids whodo not know how to float a bike without practice wheels, and there is a classfee of $25.00 per person. Please meeting Dickson Lane at education@bikewalkmontclair.org or call 973-280-9686 for registrationinformation, questions about logistics or weather-related concerns.
Aug 7
The South OrangeMaplewood Bike Coalition (SOMbike) will be hosting a Family Ride to Trader Joe’s and the South MountainReservation. Join them at 9:00 am at the Baird, 5 Mead Street, South Orange.Check on sombike.com if in skepticism about theweather.
Bike Walk Montclair hosts a Bike Rodeo from 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm at the Montclair HighSchool Faculty Parking lot on North Fullerton Ave. This seminar takes thosewho have demonstrated that they can float their bikes and enhances their skilllevels to be able to float on the streets.Adults and kids together pick up how to scan for traffic at the back them,maneuver by an barrier course, and vigilance their intentions to drivers andfellow riders. The seminar lasts 3 hours. Refreshments will be provided. Pleasecontact Dickson Lane at education@bikewalkmontclair.org or call973-280-9686 for registration information, questions about logistics orweather-related concerns.
Aug 9
New tomountain biking? Jersey Off Road Bicycle Association(JORBA) hosts Beginner Mountain Bike Group Rides at AllaireState Park , every Tuesday. Be ready to beginning soon at 6:00 pm , from the Hospital Roadparking lot. Although everybody is welcome, these rides are primarily for BEGINNERSwho wish an easy-paced and kind float by the trails of Allaire. Thegroup moves usually as swift as the slowest rider, and no a is ever dropped.Helmets, water, a bike, and a request to encounter a few dumb bike-centric folk areall that is required.
Aug 11
Marty’s Reliable Cycling hosts their weeklybeginner/intermediate, no drop, unintentional gait hill bike rides on Thursdaysthroughout the summer. Beginners ages 12 and up are welcome. They try to berolling at 6:00 pm , soplan on nearing at around 5:45 pm. The group rides on the trails in Lewis Morris Park . Lewis Morrisis not really rocky, but it is comparatively hilly. The gait will be slow to medium,and no a is left behind. Starts at the Sunrise Lake Parking Lot, 270 MendhamRd., in Morristown. Contact: bkaushansky@gmail.com or come together Marty’s Yahoo Group . Cancellations will beposted on Marty’s Yahoo group by 3:00 pm day of the ride.
Aug 16
New tomountain biking? Jersey Off Road Bicycle Association(JORBA) hosts Beginner Mountain Bike Group Rides at AllaireState Park , every Tuesday. Be ready to beginning soon at 6:00 pm , from the Hospital Roadparking lot. Although everybody is welcome, these rides are primarily for BEGINNERSwho wish an easy-paced and kind float by the trails of Allaire. Thegroup moves usually as swift as the slowest rider, and no a is ever dropped.Helmets, water, a bike, and a request to encounter a few dumb bike-centric folk areall that is required.
Aug 18
Marty’s Reliable Cycling hosts their weeklybeginner/intermediate, no drop, unintentional gait hill bike rides on Thursdaysthroughout the summer. Beginners ages 12 and up are welcome. They try to berolling at 6:00 pm , soplan on nearing at around 5:45 pm. The group rides on the trails in Lewis Morris Park . Lewis Morrisis not really rocky, but it is comparatively hilly. The gait will be slow to medium,and no a is left behind. Starts at the Sunrise Lake Parking Lot, 270 MendhamRd., in Morristown. Contact: bkaushansky@gmail.com or come together Marty’s Yahoo Group . Cancellations will beposted on Marty’s Yahoo group by 3:00 pm day of the ride.
Aug 19
Bike JC hosts a Third Friday Ride on – youguessed it – the 3rd Friday of every month (weather permitting) usually fromthe Grove Street PATH hire (near the McDonalds). Meetup justbefore 6:30 pm when the float starts … typically the float isdone by 8:00 pm. Destinations are non-static and might include Lincoln Park,Liberty State Park, NYC more. Check their Facebook pageor Twitter for sum of this month’sride. Bike JC is moreover formulation runs along the East Coast Greenway to Newark and atrip out to Pole Position .
Aug 20
Boys and girls from kindergarten by the eighth rank areinvited to come out and have a detonate competing in JORBA’s 2nd AnnualHilltop Grasshopper Kids Fun Race .To be hold at the Hilltop Reservation in NorthCaldwell , the eventuality is moreover presented by the HilltopConservancy and Essex County Parks Department .Thespectator-friendly march is next to the sports margin parking lot on CourterLane Mountain Avenue and includes well-spoken roadways together with a fun andwinding unpaved trail by the woods, and is preferred for both new andexperienced young riders. JORBAencourages you to record online to help them improved outline for proffer support. If you have questions,mail hilltopkidsrace@gmail.com or see JORBA’s website for
The increasingly mis-named Hoboken Ski Club is streamer to NewPaltz and the Mohonk Preserve for this weekend’s ride. The Mohonk Preserveprovides access to over 6,500 acres in the Shawangunk Mountains includingcliffs, forests, fields, ponds, and streams, and a network of over 100 miles ofcarriage roads and trails. This is a great bike ride. The trails are widecinder coach trails. Nothing technically tough — no depressed trees orrock fields — but there are a few high hills. The group will bike around 15-25miles. You can use a hybrid or MTB (just not a lean tire roadbike).Afterwards the group will stop at the Hudson Valley Ribfest in NewPaltz to have food and splash before streamer back home. RSVPat evite.com . NOTE: You MUST RSVP to be told of eventuality termination dueto bad weather.
Bike Walk Montclair isholding a Kids Learn to Ride classfrom 10:00 am – 1:00 pm at theMontclair High School Faculty Parking lot on North Fullerton Ave. The new to the cycling exploit pick up toride with the safe, easy, and really “balance first” method. Refreshments will be provided. All students contingency wear a steel sheet and have abicycle that fits. The cyclist contingency be able to rest his or her feet prosaic on theground whilst sitting on the bicycle seat. This category is written for kids whodo not know how to float a bike without practice wheels, and there is a classfee of $25.00 per person. Please meeting Dickson Lane at education@bikewalkmontclair.org or call 973-280-9686 for registrationinformation, questions about logistics or weather-related concerns.
And right away is to grownups … BikeWalk Montclair ‘s Adult Learn toRide category is from 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm at the Montclair High School Faculty Parking lot on North Fullerton Ave. Anyone 14 and up and new to the cyclingadventure will pick up to float with the safe, easy, and really “balance first”method. Refreshments will be provided. All students contingency wear a steel sheet and have abicycle that fits. The cyclist contingency be able to rest his or her feet prosaic on theground whilst sitting on the bicycle seat. This category is written for adults whodo not know (or cannot remember) how to float a bike, and there is a category feeof $25.00 per person. Please meeting Dickson Lane at education@bikewalkmontclair.org or call 973-280-9686 for registrationinformation, questions about logistics or weather-related concerns.
Aug 21
Join Brick City Bike Collective atNewark’s Lincoln Park from 2:00-4:00 pm for theirmonthly Third Sunday Fun Ride . Easy gait and fun for allages.
Bike Walk Montclair (BWM) hostsa Street Savvy Cyclist Course from 1:00 – 4:00 pm . BWMstarts by display you how to be visible, predictable, and polite tomotorists, pedestrians and other cyclists. You’ll see a partial video about roadsafety and a “Kids Eye View” of the road. Then you’ll all go out on a shortride by the streets of Montclair. BWM encourages family groups to take theclass together. Learn the protected way to be chic riders, individually and as agroup. Once the category is over, BWM will help you find a group float for yourskill set and schedule. Refreshments will be provided. Please meeting DicksonLane at education@bikewalkmontclair.org or 973-280-9686 for registration information,questions about logistics or weather-related concerns.
Aug 23
New tomountain biking? Jersey Off Road Bicycle Association(JORBA) hosts Beginner Mountain Bike Group Rides at AllaireState Park , every Tuesday. Be ready to beginning soon at 6:00 pm , from the Hospital Roadparking lot. Although everybody is welcome, these rides are primarily for BEGINNERSwho wish an easy-paced and kind float by the trails of Allaire. Thegroup moves usually as swift as the slowest rider, and no a is ever dropped.Helmets, water, a bike, and a request to encounter a few dumb bike-centric folk areall that is required.
August25-28
The 2nd Annual Cranks Around the Campfire is right away 4 days long and horde to MTBNJ’s MoochMadness Endurance Race on Saturday, Aug 27th. The eventuality is aperfect getaway for everybody from newbie to expert. There will be rides, events,and clinics for all levels. Enjoy actions such as bike polo, boating,climbing, swimming, and ample much more!Spendthe week end with friends and family (youths beneath 18 years aged take freeadmission) cruising Allamuchy’s singletrack, roasting marshmallows, and sharingstories of past epics around the campfire. Group rides will be led by localexperts and will be no drop. There will be something for all. For moreinformation, see rideallamuchy.com .
Aug 25
Marty’s Reliable Cycling hosts their weeklybeginner/intermediate, no drop, unintentional gait hill bike rides on Thursdaysthroughout the summer. Beginners ages 12 and up are welcome. They try to berolling at 6:00 pm , soplan on nearing at around 5:45 pm. The group rides on the trails in Lewis Morris Park . Lewis Morrisis not really rocky, but it is comparatively hilly. The gait will be slow to medium,and no a is left behind. Starts at the Sunrise Lake Parking Lot, 270 MendhamRd., in Morristown. Contact: bkaushansky@gmail.com or come together Marty’s Yahoo Group . Cancellations will beposted on Marty’s Yahoo group by 3:00 pm day of the ride.
Aug 26-28
Head to Morristown forthe Gran Fondo NJ celebration,a full week end of family programming geared toward sustainability-mindedcyclists and non-cyclists alike. Beginning on Friday and stability by theend of race day on Sunday, Gran Fondo week end will be an experience all itsown. Featured actions include the GranFondo Expo at the Hyatt Morristown, tolerable gardening demonstrations, aschedule of family-friendly entertainment and a accumulation of thematic ridesthroughout the Morris County area. Saturday’s Kid Fondo will give the family groups of cyclists the chance toexperience the feel-good factor and clarity of success that roving brings tomillions of active Americans today.Please examine out the Gran Fondo NJ website formore information!
Aug 26
Bike Walk Montclair’s Last Friday Community Ride – aka “Critical Manners” or”Courteous Mass.” Gear up for a loosen up pace, eveningbicycle float by the streets of Montclair. Riders encounter at the MontclairPublic Library, Main Branch between 6:30pm and 7:00 pm . The group rides out soon at 7:00 pm. No leaders, nopre-determined route! Refreshment following is optional. Cyclists should be”street savvy” and have well aflame bikes. Helmets are required. A”street savvy” cyclist is tangible as a who rides a bike that fits,and can scheme whilst roving in traffic.A lane savvy cyclist understands the manners of the thoroughfare and rides withconfidence, apply oneself and courtesy.
Aug 30
New tomountain biking? Jersey Off Road Bicycle Association(JORBA) hosts Beginner Mountain Bike Group Rides at AllaireState Park , every Tuesday. Be ready to beginning soon at 6:00 pm , from the Hospital Roadparking lot. Although everybody is welcome, these rides are primarily for BEGINNERSwho wish an easy-paced and kind float by the trails of Allaire. Thegroup moves usually as swift as the slowest rider, and no a is ever dropped.Helmets, water, a bike, and a request to encounter a few dumb bike-centric folk areall that is required.
Aug 31
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Road Bicycle | A New Spin On Old Tires
By Melissa Flores
The Lucas family has always had a considerable gathering of rubber bicycle middle tubes around their store Off the Chain Bikes. Brian and Robin Lucas, who own the Tres Pinos Road bicycle shop, offer repairs to riders who find themselves in a splash in San Benito County.
For every prosaic tire they repair, the couple ends up with the leftover middle tubes. With the clearly unending supply of shop-worn middle tubes, Robin motionless to give the road-worn rubber a second life. For the final year, she has been experimenting with branch the tubes in to backpacks and purses.
“I regard Brian may came up with it. He’s always considering of things to make from bike parts,” she said. “My spouse and son mentioned you could make backpacks. But I longed for to make flattering purses.”
Her son Myles, a high college student, mentioned they can obtain up to 5 repairs a day when specific weeds with thorns are flourishing around the county.
“We type of cling to on to them to reuse them for personal use, but finally it gets to the indicate where you have to toss them out,” he said, of the family’s supply.
Robin hold up a couple of samples of her handiwork that she programmed to sell at the downtown Hollister Street Festival and Car Show final weekend. One had pieces of rubber shaped in to the figure of flowering plant petals whilst other had a fastener done out of a large, spotted bead.
“I proposed a year ago perplexing to figure out how to stitch with rubber,” she said. “It’s been challenging.”
Robin proposed out sewing when she was a girl, creation her own clothing and other items. But she put the pastime in reserve until recently. Sewing with rubber was a whole, new world.
The greatest dare in creation the hand-crafted handbags was getting a sewing appurtenance that could hoop the thick element and anticipating a way to keep it gliding beneath the needle. When she visited a buddy in San Diego in January, she came opposite a lasting sewing appurtenance that right away sits in a dilemma of her living room, by the back door. Her materials have taken over a table only at the back the sewing area, with strips of rubber in a drawer, grommets on tip and a shaft of a black, satiny cord that she uses to make the straps is to purses.
Through conversing with friends and seeking at a few books about using rubber, she proposed using a small bottle of oil to help the rubber slide beneath the needle and to help the thread overcome by the material.
Brian brings the middle tubes home, where Robin cuts them open and scrubs them clean.
“I rinse any one and then dehydrated them outward and then they are ready to go,” she said.
Because the tires are rounded, the strips do not distortion flat. The figure of the strips helps make any bag unique.
“Each one is different,” she said. “I cannot put out something that is the expect same size. Rubber has its own personality. Even if I portion the width, for a few unusual reason it doesn’t advance out a duplicate.”
While she sticks to handbags and backpacks, she has ventured out with a few other projects. She done a raincoat is to family dog, that the house pet wears during soppy weather.
“I’m working on a apparatus belt,” she said, keeping up the project.
And she mentioned she is open to conference from customers at the store if they have ideas for other items she can make from the sewed middle tubes.
She has roughly 10 handbags for sale in Off the Chain bikes, and she mentioned any pieces takes a couple of hours to complete.
“My cousin saw it and mentioned I should see if may be people might purchase them,” she said.
The items sell for about $19.99, reduction than Robin has seen them for at other bike shops.
“There are people out there that are carrying out this,” she said. “I know I’m not the first. It’s only unequivocally interesting and I’m unequivocally enjoying it.”
She tries to dish out a couple of hours a day, between working at the store and domicile duties.
“I do make time,” she said. “I wish to. I suffer it a lot, but I’ve got to be in the mood. It takes full concentration.”
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Road Bicycle | Cyclists Trek To Indian River County
Cycling fan Abel Cruz climbed aboard his CO thoroughfare bicycle in Tustin, Calif., and set out on a cross-country tour that would lead to correct to Indian River County.
Cruz, 60, along with 4 of his buddies, were formulation to make the 3,500-mile tour in 60 days or less.
And notwithstanding a couple of set-backs inclusive wind, sleet and impassioned heat, 4 of the 5 done it opposite the nation on their bicycles.
What sets these 5 adventurers detached is that they’re all amputees with prosthetic legs, and are committed to assisting other people with earthy disabilities see that nothing is impossible.
Along with ‘Boston Bill’ Hansbury, Jeff Martin and Doc Milligan, Cruz peddled to the complete line at the HealthSouth Treasure Coast Rehabilitation Hospital on 37th Street in Vero Beach on July 22. The fifth rider, Joe Sapere, fell sick on the tour and is improving in a HealthSouth trickery in Plano, Texas.
Cruz mentioned his CO thoroughfare bike, that is engraved with the difference “Papa Abel” on it, served him good along the journey.
“I had it tuned up a couple of stops ago,” mentioned Cruz. “They prearranged the gears, oil it up for me and done it simpler to ride.”
It’s the tenth year is to cycling outing that is conducted by Amputees Across America, a nonprofit organization. The 5 cyclists left on June 1 and stopped at 19 HealthSouth Hospitals along the way to urge on patients in their recoveries.
Cruz, who mislaid his left leg in a motorcycle collision in 2005, mentioned the Amputees Across America organisation has since his life direction.
“It done us all brothers,” mentioned Cruz, 59. “Up until we found Amputees Across America, we didn’t know what my life would be like. But we saw these riders and from that indicate we knew we was going to be OK.”
HealthSouth studious Catherine Fay, 92, watched with 50 others as Cruz crossed the complete line. She mentioned she was shocked by his achievement, and enjoyed discussion him privately after the race.
HealthSouth medical executive Dr. Jimmy Lockhart hopes all his patients listened Cruz’s summary deafening and clear.
“You’re an motivation for our patients,” Lockhart told the cyclists.
“It is so enlivening for them to see people with leading medical problems carrying out something so incredible.”