Finger Lakes Cycling Club

We’ll be at Hammond Hill this Thursday, September 2nd, for this week’s mountain bike ride, beginning at 5:30pm.  Meet at the parking lot on Hammond Hill Road.  Next week will be the last ride that I will lead this season, as it’s getting almost too dark to see in the woods by 7:30ish.  So, these last two rides will be co-ed to include anyone who wants to come.  Next week, we’ll finish up at Shindagin!

Brenda

What a ride! I was happily surprised to see so many people at the 8am
start for the Terrible Hills ride. After looking at the maps, I
counted 13 ascents, many of which begin with B: Baker Hill and Mt
Pleasant, Yellow Barn, Irish Settlement, Buffalo Rd, Yaple and
Blackman Hill, Legge and Honeypot, Besemer Hill, Burns and King,
Bostwick, Blakesly Hill and Jersery Hill and Comfort, Beech Hill,
Brown and Bruce, Buffalo St.

The ride starts out with some moderate hills, and seems to get worse
as the day goes on. Either the hills get steeper and longer, or my
energy was just getting drained with each hill. I think nearly all of
these hills are part of one FLCC ride or another, so they were
familiar roads, just not ones that I typically ride all of in one day.
The first tough climb was on Legge, which seemed to have more grade
and be longer than the others to that point. Continue reading →

Report from Wayne Gottlieb

Eighteen surly mountain goats started from East Hill at 8:00 yesterday, most intent on finishing the 100 miles of terrible hills.  Here’s who I remember, others can fill in as needed.

It was a pleasure to have non FLCC people, Dan Capps and Brian McDowell (whom I met through a fossil workshop).  Also there were Mark Shenstone, Andy Goddell, Sam Kolins, Nate (and his girlfriend), Dani, Ano, Harold Kliems,  Max Kraft, Chris, and Ruth Sherman. Continue reading →

We’ll meet Thursday, 5:30PM at the gravel parking lot on Braley Hill Rd.  Directions to the Shindagin Hollow meeting area:  http://www.shindagin.com/

Email with any questions.

~Brenda

Good news for those who have asked about getting helmet mounted mirrors — I’ve just received a few from Chuck Harris, so get in touch if you’re interested. If all goes well, there will be a couple dozen mirrors available, so if more people contact me than currently available mirrors, I’ll put you on a list. It looks like maybe the whole batch will be here within a month. Email me with requests, questions, comments: vptouring@flcycling.org

These mirrors are made from recycled materials — bits of mirror and stainless steel spokes. The mount will clip over the left front edge of your helmet and, once it’s on there, you can pick up the helmet by the mirror and it won’t budge. More info at Helmet Mirror

They’re $15 a piece, as before, and have the FLCC graphic on the back of the mirror.

Written by Max Kraft

Sunday morning broke wet and cool in Lansing. I checked the weather before I left the house, but knew that I’d get wet even before I saw the forecast for a 60% chance of rain. It was bad to the North and South, but scattered in the middle and set to clear by 1, so it looked like a great day to ride, and what a great day it was!  It looked to me like there were at least 25 – 30+ people, though, and many new faces. Continue reading →

We’ll be at Hammond Hill this Thursday, August 19, for the women’s only mountain bike ride, beginning at 5:30pm.  Meet at the parking lot on Hammond Hill Road.  We only have about 4 weeks left until it will be too dark to ride after work, at least without headlights.  I see some leaves changing over from green to red already….  Is it time to start waxing those skis yet? 

We’ll meet Thursday, 5:30PM at the gravel parking lot on Braley Hill Rd.  Directions to the Shindagin Hollow meeting area:  http://www.shindagin.com/

The FLCC touring group is pushing off again, this time on the self-supported ride from Ithaca to Pittsburgh; in Pittsburgh we’ll catch a train to Syracuse and then ride back to Ithaca. That’s some 400 miles of riding with all our gear on our bikes (or trailers). The participants for this one are Steve Powell, Steve Grossman, John Dennis, Andrejs Ozolins, Alexey Loginov  joined by two folks from Montrose. The seven of us are starting out from Cass Park tomorrow morning. Continue reading →