- September
- 17
It’s time for cyclists from the region to show their concern for the unsafe conditions created by the state Department of Transportation on Route 100 in Yorktown and Somers.
We will gather for the Route 100 Bike Safety Rally at the corner of Routes 100 and 118 in Yorktown, at noon, on Sat. Sept. 27.
We [...]
Posted by David McKay Wilson on September 17th, 2008 | Post a Comment »
- September
- 13
Got a call from an executive at Stillman Management with the good news that they’d rounded up 50 abandoned bikes from the storage rooms at several co-ops the company manages in Westchester. They plan to donate them for Westchester Cycle Club’s 2009 Pedals for Progress collection. I’d made a pitch to the managing agents this [...]
Posted by David McKay Wilson on September 13th, 2008 | 2 Comments »
- September
- 9
Come join our friends in Croton-on-Hudson for Croton Bike Week, a celebration of cycling in a village where folks use their two-wheelers for recreation, commutation, and just plain old getting around town.
Westchester Cycle Club is participating in the week, which kicks off Sunday with WCC’s Golden Apple. On Sat. Sept. 20, we’re holding a multi-level [...]
Posted by David McKay Wilson on September 9th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
- September
- 8
Please join the discussion at 6 p.m. on Tues. Sept. 9 at the Bronxville Public Library on what remaining coordination needs to be done in order to complete the Bronx River Trailway.
The Trailway is a crucial link in the 3,000-mile East Coast Greenway, which runs from Key West, Florida to Calais, Maine. The meeting, which [...]
Posted by David McKay Wilson on September 8th, 2008 | Post a Comment »
- September
- 4
It was great to get a call earlier this summer from an editor at Putnam Magazine, asking me to write about cycling in Putnam County. So I worked on two tracks. First, I scheduled a regular Westchester Cycle Club Monday night ride from Lake Secor to develop a good route to share with the readers. [...]
Posted by David McKay Wilson on September 4th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
- September
- 2
When my Dad was still alive, he and my stepmother bought a EZ-1 SX Quadribent recumbent tandem, a hulking steel-framed bike that provided hours of joy. It was essentially two recumbent bikes that were joined together side-by-side, so you have four wheels, two handlebars, two drive-chains, and two seat, side by side.
My Dad was a [...]
Posted by David McKay Wilson on September 2nd, 2008 | 1 Comment »
- September
- 2
Just two days left for early registration for the 27th annual Golden Apple rides, set for Sunday Sept. 14 from the Goldens Bridge train station in Lewisboro, right off Exit 6A I-684.
You can register at http://www.westchestercycleclub.org/goldenapple.php and learn more about the ride.
The rides, sponsored by the Westchester Cycle Club, will take you on routes [...]
Posted by David McKay Wilson on September 2nd, 2008 | 3 Comments »
- August
- 21
Now’s the time to mark your calendar and register for this year’s Golden Apple, to be held Sunday September 14 at the Goldens Bridge train station. We’re expecting a big crowd – we have 330 riders signed up already, and we are projecting to have at least 1,000 riders that Sunday in later summer. [...]
Posted by David McKay Wilson on August 21st, 2008 | Post a Comment »
David McKay Wilson, president of the Westchester Cycle Club, likes to ride in the hills of northern Westchester and Putnam counties. He has spearheaded the club's used bike collection, with more than 900 bikes sent from Westchester to Nicaragua since 2006, and has become an advocate for bike commuting in the lower Hudson Valley. A staff writer at The Journal News from 1986 to 2007, Wilson now writes for university magazines around the country.
