2016 New Year’s Day Ride

Start time: 8:00 AM @ Cat’s Paw Rambles Parking Lot (79th Street & East Drive)

Hand in your signed release form at the start – WAIVER IS REQUIRED (links below).

The course:

Over the GWB, to 9W North.

The course detours just South of Nyack:

• You can either climb up just before entering Nyack, or

• go through Nyack and use any of the access roads back west to 9W.

Either way you will climb Rockland Hill and continue on 9W for the rest of the ride.

Up to Bear Mountain/Perkins summit.

The return is the same route, finishing up by turning Left @ 110th St & riding South on Fifth Avenue to 90th St.

Have fun and a Happy New Year!

 Preparation tips:

• Dress appropriately for the weather.
• Completed and signed USAC liability release. 2016 waiver is available here: https://s3.amazonaws.com/USACWeb/forms/rider_release.pdf.
• During and post-ride nutrition.
• Report to start 5-10 minutes before start time.

2016 Sub-Team Application

Do your New Year's resolutions include starting your own road racing team? CRCA is here to help you turn that vision into reality. Please click here to fill out an application to start your own team for 2016, and become part of the US's oldest bicycle racing club!

Plea From Local Cycling Groups for Repaving of Prospect Park

Last week, CRCA along with several other local cycling clubs, teams, and businesses who have a vested interest in ensuring cyclist safety in Prospect Park, sent a letter to the leaders of the Prospect Park Alliance, Department of Transportation, and other stakeholders, which pleads the case for why Prospect Park should be repaved for safety reasons. The letter addresses with specificity the most dangerous areas within the Prospect Park loop due to deteriorated road conditions, and points out the lack of a satisfactory repairs and response by officials. We are sharing this letter with CRCA members in hopes that you will help us in being vocal about this problem, and with enough pressure from park users, perhaps the park roads can finally be repaved.

We would urge you to post the attached copy of the final letter to your websites, Facebook pages, twitter accounts etc. to let your friends or customers know about the campaign we've begun to get the park road resurfaced. You can add a simple message or headline saying something like "Support the effort to repave the Prospect Park Loop: leading cycling groups have called on park and transportation management to repave the loop road by next spring."

Post a quick message to the Prospect Park Alliance and City DOT saying you support the recent letter by cycling organizations and shops. Links provided below.

Thank you in advance for your support!

Links: 

December 9, 2015 Letter re: Prospect Park Repaving

DOT: 

web/email: http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/contact/contact-form.shtml?routing=bk Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NYCDOT Twitter: @NYC_DOT

Prospect Park Alliance: email: info@prospectpark.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ProspectParkBrooklyn/ Twitter: @prospect_park