To celebrate National Bicycle Safety Month, Haverstraw police officers will be handing out free helmets to children and young adults in the village who need them throughout May.

Police will also distribute free gift certificates for McDonald’s on Route 9W in Haverstraw and the Target store in West Nyack to children who pro-actively wear helmets when [...]

Here’s an article we published about a charity ride next month starting at Rockland Lake and looping through the county.

Jenna Carlesso
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As a 22-year veteran of the New York Police Department, Detective Terry McGhee devoted much of his life to helping others.

But after a spinal cord injury left him paralyzed from the chest down, his friends [...]

Ever get dropped by a group of riders you’re used to pace-lining with?

That’s what happened to me Sunday when I took my first club ride of the season after a nearly two-month winter layoff.

The posted ride description sounded innocent enough: About 33 miles, mostly long flats with a couple of hills sprinkled in.

Forty-five miles and [...]

Our favorite beer-drinking rider from Amish Country is back, according an interview on cyclingnews.com passed along to us by John Markstrom, a transplanted New Yorker living on the left coast.

Here’s the beginning of the article:

“The countdown to the end of the suspension of Floyd Landis is nearly over. After two years, the American who once [...]

OK, I’ll admit it: I’m not a year-round rider. Once the temperatures dip into the 20s in the morning and there’s a residue of salt, sand and ice littering the roadsides, I’m thinking it’s time to do something else.
For me, something else rarely involves stationary cycling. Spin classes? Loud and obnoxious. Indoor trainers? Nah, I [...]

Leave it to the folks at MIT to come up with ways for cyclists to connect through the Internet using digital technology.

The program, called “SmartBiking,” reportedly lets riders interact in innovative ways including through a Facebook application called “I crossed your path.”

Also, MIT reportedly is developing a “Smart Bike” that uses braking to charge a [...]

I spent the Columbus Day weekend cycling with my club through Pennsylvania’s Brandywine Valley.

Brandywine is in southern Chester County, just north of Delaware, about two hours and change from the NY metro area.

Although the main arteries are cluttered with the usual suburban commercialism, once you turn off onto a side road you’re soon pedaling [...]

A group of Nyack firefighters have planned a marathon trip up to Albany on their bicycles to raise money for a firefighters’ memorial service. Here’s an article by staff writer Steve Lieberman about the trip and how the group has been prepping for the trip:

Steve Lieberman
The Journal News

SOUTH NYACK — Rich Gallo rides his bicycle [...]

My 2007 bicycling season, which totaled about 3,200 miles, came to a crashing halt on Dec. 26.

And I do mean crashing.

On the way home from a 25 mile loop, I tumbled off my bike while negotiating a ramp between the roadway and sidewalk en route to a bike path.

Mensa candidate that I am, I declined [...]

Imagine cycling 70 to 100 miles a day, day after day, and still having the energy each evening to blog and post photos and captions. That’s what this fellow is doing over the summer.

As I follow his journey, I find myself both envious and inspired. The entries from Glacier National Park are my favorites.

Check out [...]