please do! Motels are even better (so we can all sneak into one room. typically, hotels have a main front entrance, whereas motel rooms all have outside entrances).

Thanks

oh and by the way, I put up another thread specifically asking for help from NY in the title and it's only gotten one response from a well wisher- psshh- so much for NYC hospitality! haha.

I don't know what Jeff has, but I'll recommend the Chelsea Star and Carlton Arms. We've had no problems sleeping two to a room in these places. I don't know about the Chelsea Star, but I've stayed with my bike at the Carlton Arms. Both are a little on the sketch side, the CA a little more so, but not terrible.

The Larchmont in the village is great. $100/night for a tiny, but clean and charming, room. http://larchmonthotel.com/index.html. I've never stayed there with a bike.

Oh man, T-Minus 7 Hours until we leave this stinkburg town of Philadelphia.... and head out to NYC, CT, and Boston.... WOOT! See all you suckas soon.

http://bangboston.blogspot.com/

Have a nice ride gentlemen. See you in Boston.

Just making sure we're still meeting these guys at Delux tomorrow night. I have a meeting at 7:30, but hopefully I can be there by 9-9:30.

According to this, we are: http://bangboston.blogspot.com/2005/...-sept-8th.html

I'll probably show at 9:00 but I'll be trying like mad to move the party to MIT at 10:00 for some sprints. If I don't have any takers, I might jet and try to catch up with the party train afterward. Anybody else planning on getting their ghettodrome on tomorrow night?

rob

Ah, the ghettodrome. Yeah, I'd like to come just to see what's up (I've never been), show off the new unit, and maybe even race. We'll see how my back/shoulder holds up riding over to Delux. I have this feeling that out of the saddle sprints and going balls out on the track might put a lot of strain on it and be very unhelpful. Rather be a poser for the night than have to deal with this pain for yet another week...

Um, you are not a poser if you fail to ride your bike on the MIT running track.

Fair enough. Do you think it's cool to bring my blingmobile down to Delux, jrowe? I don't know the area very well... I'm not worried about it getting stolen - I'll bring a fat lock to (hopefully) take care of that - but I don't want my seat (or various other parts) getting ripped off or something dumb like that (which would probably happen in Central, et al.). Otherwise, I'll just bring the trusty ol' I-R-O.

Your bike will be fine.

Blingmobile it is then! See you tomorrow night.

em where is delux???

sorry... I just clicked on the link... so 9pm! awesome.

oh and from what I hear, the MIT track has been on hiatus for a while after being kicked out two weeks in a row a few weeks back. I have been florida ever since so I'm not sure if that's true but I have not heard otherwise. I'll make some calls tomorrow and see what's up though.

Look back on the first page, the location is there (I think), or on that link in post #38. For whatever it's worth, I'm getting there by crossing the Mass Ave. bridge, going on Comm Ave. toward downtown, and then turning right on the same street you take to get to Copley. Go past Copley and cross 90 and then Delux should be more or less at the corner of whatever street you're on and Clarendon. Too lazy to look at the map right now...

It's been on hiatus from the main field, but a small crew of us has been racing and practicing every week anyway so that when the other kids do finally show, we'll be badass and they'll be puddin' pops. PUDDIN' POPS!!

And we weren't kicked out two weeks in a row either. We were kicked out twice, but those incidents were weeks apart.

rob

I'll be there. I may be up for going to the races, though probably not, especially if I don't get my hub rebuilt in time. (I was an idiot and nuked one of my bearings reinstalling them, so now I really need to get the right sized ones.)

Anyhow, the word I've heard is that the races are pretty small these days. I've been told by some that it's because people are catching flack downtown for racing and giving messengers a bad rap, but that doesn't really make sense to me. The Cambridge Bike crew is telling me that's bull and that people are just lazy. That sounds a little closer. That's certainly my excuse. :) There's some talk of reinstating the Saturday night ride.

that's right I was thinking that we got kicked out the week when the security guard was just sitting there watching us the whole time. Oh and how are you rob? It's Henry.

I'll be there plus one this week

Yeah, that security guard just left after a while. I think laziness combined with a few incidents like getting kicked out or knocked out put a damper on things for a bit. If nothing else, it's fun to just ride around real fast and get some beers afterward. I don't know anything about the downtown scene. I do know that messenger kids have shown up for the races and seemed pretty cool with it. But whatever. If there's no scene, make a scene, right?

Henry, let's ride sometime. You're friggin fast!

rob

Good seeing everyone tonight. I'm going to propose that tomorrow night we repair to Triple D's in my neck of the woods. There's nothing special on Friday nights (Saturday is karaoke, rats!), but the beers are cheap, seating should be ample, and the place is closing. Get some while the getting's good. Homey little dive bar, it's one of my favorite places.

What say yas?

http://www.google.com/local?num=100&...86199257870636
http://www.weeklydig.com/index.cfm/f...b-1484963a003a

Yeah, good times tonight. Triple D's sounds perfect. I can make it after 8.

buy peter a cola for me, tell him its from daniel

That's .05 of a mile from where I live, so I'll drop by. Time?

I'll be there. (if i manage to extricate myself from lab)

fatbat

Let's say same bat time. 9pm.

Race Results for last night's track sprints!

Miss and Out:

1. Dan from Providence
2. Derek
3. (I forget, sorry dude!)


Madisons:

Team Wasted (Derek, Ian, Erik, Henry, and some kid whose name I forget) barely nudged out Team Foreigner (me, Dan from Providence, Scott from Providence, Hannah from Providence, and J-Rowe) for the win.


It was a great night of racing, evenly matched and fast as our drunken legs would carry us. The Providence crew vowed to come back and whup our Bostonian asses. Are we going to let them?? I think not.

Word has it we might be rollin' a little deeper next week from PVD watch out! ... definitly a blast last night thanks to everyone who came out, We'll be looking forward to next weeks races ... get the WORD OUT!

Depending on my shoulder situation, I may even be persuaded to throw down next week too. Have fun beating me while it lasts, *****es. We'll see who's the man next summer.

Right now I'm thinking about riding over to Harris to get an AC Racing freewheel and some bar tape. I notice that I keep tearing (small tears) the Cinelli on both of my bikes, even on the one with the good wrapping job. Should I switch to cloth tape? Get my hands checked to see if I have Incredible Hulk-like strength?

thanks to all the BOSTON guys (and girls) for taking us out when we arrived. Awesome beers, awesome food, awesome company (or should I say "Wicked Awesome"). Please tell me when you are coming to philly, the favor will be returned to you. I am sorry I was not able to make it out the next night. Being in East Boston sucks... you have a curfew due to the train schedule. I will have to say that I found Boston rather bike UNfriendly. But then again I live in a city where you can bike everywhere and its just a big grid.... I think I have been spoiled really. but THANKS AGAIN for EVERYTHING!!!