Originally Posted by
meltron
Thanks for the reply obstacle. Yea, naw, plenty of the other stuff (polo, cats, trick sessions, et al) already exists. Not really interested...
I am looking for more of the aforementioned "group ride", much like when the roadies get together. I really enjoy that a lot, but like you said, it feels like a rarity in NY. I catch a few older guys riding fixed in CP during the weekends or on my ride up to Nyack sometimes. Again, rare...
"There are some of us that get together for nightly rides in central park as well." I'm totally down for this. Is there a place I can sign up for meet times or to join this group? How far is it to Kissenna sans car? I don't own any sort of vehicular transportation so my thought is that getting up there regularly would be a challenge.
cheers!
Yoshi can answer the kissena questions and more organized fixed gear riding stuff. I've seen posts around here from a few others about morning rides, sometimes in the park, sometimes out to NJ. Personally I ride almost nightly in the park, often fixed. I've ridden with a handful of people from the board here or there around the park. More recently a few nights a week I've seen groups of 3-5 people riding fixed around the park. Nothing "official" though. Any group rides in the city, be it from a club our otherwise, will generally be roadies with maybe some guys on fixed gears. Though I think there are enough of us on the board that are somewhat to ver serious cyclists that are also fixed riders and not into the hipster scene that we could start some kind of "organized" fixed gear group ride come spring (since many people resort to indoor roller riding starting about now until March).
If you ever want to ride in central park on a week night, usually after 9pm for 20-30miles PM me. This time of year I'm running more than I'm riding but if you did want to ride I would gladly take the night off from brutalizing my body running and spin some fixed laps around the park.