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Hi Everyone,
The recent weather is telling us something: the cycling season is starting!!!
The FLCC Annual Meeting is this Sunday, 5:00-8:00 pm (Daylight savings time), at the Ellis Hollow Community Center, 111 Genung Road. 5:00-6:00 pm is a social hour and we will be serving salad, pizza, and soft drinks. I still have some beer from last summer’s picnic and I’ll be bringing that as well.
During the business part of the meeting we will elect new officers and plan this season’s tours (Sunday tours, overnights, and family cycling), fun events (picnic and Ithaca Festival Parade), and races (Hollenbeck’s and ‘cross). I hope you can join us. Continue reading →
Hollenbeck’s Spring Classic is the club’s premier annual event, a road race in Virgil, NY about 20 miles east of Ithaca. Updated details for the 2010 edition of the race have been published, including a printable flyer that you can put up to draw in all your friends.
Holenbeck’s Spring Classic RR
Those not planning to race — please consider volunteering to help out with running the race. It takes a huge amount of work to put on an event like this, and everyone’s contribution will be appreciated. Many of us find that spending a spring morning in the beautiful Central New York landscape marshaling a corner or recording finishers is a lot of fun — a great chance to enjoy our world and watch some really great bicyclists doing their thing.
The regular Sunday ride on race day will begin about 1:00 pm, after the race has ended; we’ll do a loop of the race course and maybe ride back to Ithaca from Virgil.
 A buddy in Boulder sent these photos to me and I had to share. Commence drooling – yep, that’s all bike parking and it looks like it’s close to full.
There is intelligent life in the universe after all! Unfortunately, it’s not on our side of the pond, but it’s exciting none the less. (more photos below)
Paul Monkman
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May 28-31, 2010 — arrive Friday evening, return Monday afternoon.
The first FLCC biking trip of the year will be to Keene Valley, a village nestled just to the east of the High Peaks of the Adirondacks. Our lodgings will be divided beween two establishments within a few houses of each other –
- The Rooster Comb Inn — holds about 10 people in several rooms with one double bed each plus a room with four single beds. They also have a nearby house with private rooms.
- Keene Valley Hostel — holds 11 people if we fill all 9 single beds and the double bed that are all in one open dorm. They also have some supplementary room in their main house.
Both of these places have full kitchens, so we’ll probably do a common dinner or two in one of them. Other amenities include a massage therapist Continue reading →
 An informal evening of food and fun where we can hear about some of the bike touring adventures that our club members and supporters have experienced over the past cycling season, and dream about new adventures for 2010. We have begun planning for the 2010 season with new week-long routes, weekend trips, and other cycling adventures. Come to the dinner to add your ideas and let us know how we can make another great FLCC touring year.
What: 3rd Annual FLCC Off-Season Bike Touring Get-Together/Dinner
When: Saturday February 6, 2010 from 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Where: Wildfire Restaurant (formerly Lost Dog Cafe), 2nd floor lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca, NY. On-street parking or in the Cayuga St municipal garage (entrance on S Cayuga St, between E Green St and E Clinton St).
Who: This is open to all FLCC members and supporters and their families. Non-members are also welcome to attend. Members of other cycling clubs are welcome. Continue reading →
From Laura Kozlowski:
 I had my Bridgestone stolen…it was the Green beater I had with the bar ends and xmas lights on it with a very rusted chain. If you see it around let me know-
I had it on my porch and noticed this morning when I went to go to work it was gone. I know I should have locked it up but it was so beat up so I didn’t think it was something others wanted.
Keep your eyes open for me  it has been with me for 20 years so we have a lot of memories together.
Thanks!
That bike is a Bridgestone MB-5 — a very plain, old mountain bike. But, any Bridgestone of that age has value to the owner at least. Here’s a picture of it in last year’s Solstice Ride.
Andrejs
 It was pretty late Sunday morning when Steve Powell called about doing a ride. We’ve both had quite a few miles of rail trails and canal paths and bike tracks, but Steve wanted a day off the highways and proposed that we drive down to the Pine Creek rail trail in Pennsylvania. He had learned that there was a new stretch of it finished on the northern end that neither of us had seen, so that was a pretext to visit the place. What with the time change and all, it was pretty late already, but we figured we’d have time to go down about 25 miles and back before dark. Continue reading →
 Five us — Gary Hodges, David Sahn, Stuart Wolsh, Jim Millar and I — departed EHP a bit after 10:00 am Sunday. It was sunny with temps hovering in the high 40s. After some discussion, our objectives were simple: to breathe lots of cool fall air, admire pasturing geese and dappled horses cavorting in roadside fields, refuel at Hollenbeck’s and then return by some challenging different route.
As we crested the first rise on Ellis Hollow Creek Road, a cyclist named Chuck Green happened to pull out and decided to join us for part of our trip. He was the only rider in our group to ride with his lower calves exposed. I noted the chiseled muscle look and asked: Continue reading →
Date: Sunday, October 25
Start: 10:00 am Brooktondale Market — please park at post office or on the street.
Finish: Brooktondale Market — they close at 4:00pm. riders will be going to BBQ arcoss the street from the Caroline Town Hall.
 100k (62 miles)
7326 ft of climbing
90% dirt roads, some singletrack options
Cue sheet (pdf)
Jeff Inman at Cayuga Ski and Cycle has put together this metric century MTB ride this Sunday the 25th. It will be mostly seasonal access dirt roads with the possibility of some single track. Cross bikes would work no problem, serious nobbies not required. He has arranged to drop food and drink in six different locations along the way for refueling if you can drop what you need off to him ahead of time.
You can get a more detailed map at the Cayuga Ski and Cyclery, 624 West State Street Ithaca, 607-277-6821. Open Mon-Fri 10:00-7:00, Saturday 9:00-5:00
 This past weekend found Ludlow, Vermont, invaded by a gang of bicyclists from the Finger Lakes. There was a total of 19 of us, most staying in the hostel in the heart of town. Always a bit of a gamble this time of year, the weather gave us better than an even break — no serious rain at all and much of the time there was sun among the clouds. It was truly a memorable trip and certainly one of the most thoroughly documented in photos. Here are most of the photo galleries from participants:
Brenda | Juan | Amy | Randy | Steve P | Andrejs
For details of the trip, below is Brenda’s great summary of the weekend. Continue reading →
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