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Potbelly Cycling Association ...this page last modified at 1 AM, July 26, 2004
45 Munson Road
Pleasantville, NY 10570
USA
- The organization takes a lighthearted and accepting approach to cycling with a potbelly. (and having one) It wishes to encourage folks with potbellies to get on bikes and roll. It's fun!
- We hope all our newsletters are both fun and informative.
- There is a separate category of membership for people who fail to develop or maintain a potbelly, called "Athletic Supporter" membership.
"Lost members" We've had a few newsletters returned by the Postal Service, saying the address had expired...if YOU haven't gotten your newsletter, please Email the editor! (Click on the info link below.) AND if your email address has changed, please email the editor with both your new AND old address, so that the old one can be deleted.
A wider membership: We now have members from Saudi Arabia west to Okinawa.
Links are below.
Some of our columns:
Dear Dr.
Gearhead
Neat biking experiences
Potbellies in Science
Cycling
jokes
Ask the Eye Doctor
SportsSense
Jacques de Strappe
We
had a special guest column by custom framebuilder Rick Gnehm. (Banana
Boy Bicycles) Rick told us all about different types of
frames--advantages and disadvantages too. One of Rick's custom frames
(and handlebars) was ridden to a UCI world championship in England.
(They are the folks who put on the Tour de France.) While most of our
riders are not likely to win cycling races (or even be in one), it's
nice to have some teaching from a pro.
Started in December
1995, word started getting around...there's been a lot of enthusiasm
expressed by those responding.
T-shirts: (None smaller than
XL)...sorry, sold out! If you have one, it's now a collector's
item.
Several members have ridden in the STP
(Seattle to Portland) ride. One wore his original t-shirt proudly as
he crossed the finish line.
There was a nice writeup in the
August 1996 issue of Mountain Biker Magazine, written
byPatrick O'Grady, the famous bicycling cartoonist. (He also
included one of his neat 'toons, slightly modified here, with his
permission, and Mountain Biker Magazine's. Thanks, guys.) The editor
FINALLY met Patrick face to face in 2003 at Interbike! It was great
fun.
Our cartoonist's website: http://www.maddogmedia.com/ Note: His book of bike 'toons is out. Buy his book to help support his art.
Bicycling Magazine's October 1997
issue gave us a mention too. Although short, a lot of potbellied
folks are coming to check out the web page...and request
applications.
Although we have a WIDE membership range (see
above), to date most members are scattered throughout the United
States and Canada, from the East coast to Hawaii. We've also had
inquiries from Australia, South Africa and Malaysia, and we've been
told that someone read about us in a Czech bicycling magazine. The
editor met with our first UK member in England, and we went on a
GREAT ride there thru Nottingham and Sherwood forest. We even saw
today's Sheriff of Nottingham! (Of Robin Hood fame) The current
Sheriff of Nottingham drives a Bently™, so perhaps things
haven't changed all that much? ;-)
Click here to get an email
Application or Info: Info/Application
. Include snail mail adr if you want a printed one. (Addresses are
NOT sold or given to any person or organization.) (Nor are visits to
this page tracked by us in any way.)
Happy Cycling!
Several of us were among
approximately 1,500 cyclists who biked back and forth across a 3 mile
bridge in NY, the first time it ever was open to bike traffic. The
whole ride was about 20 hilly miles:
Bike across the Tappan Zee
Coordination of the ride has switched to the MS Society. The 2003
ride is scheduled for October 5th, and the route includes
both the Tappan Zee and Bear Mountain Bridges.
Several of us have done "Bike NY", going thru the 5 boroughs. It's quite an event! 42 miles around NYC, with bikes as far as you could see in both directions, and WAY beyond. It's crowded! Approximately 40,000 bicyclists turn out. (That's right, 40,000!) That's more than do the NYC marathon!
www.bikenewyork.org It almost makes Amsterdam look like a place that doesn't have many cycles!
Bicycling links: (non-bike links at bottom of page) Note: A number of these are down at the moment. Some have probably changed, and some might be down to to some of the Microsoft Windows(tm) security holes that allow worms(tm) ;-) to bring down a number of websites around the world. I will check again and update soon. If you know of any that have definitely changed or been removed, pleae email those changes. (Info/App link above)
Bicycle
Repair
http://www.letour.com/
Le Tour de France (Congrats to LANCE ARMSTRONG on his 6th consecutive
Tour de France victory!) Having been written off as a serious rider,
due to cancer, he delighted many with his story of what the human
spirit can do. He established a foundation to help with cancer
research, http://www.laf.org/
classy guy that he is. Ride on, Lance!
A
trans U.S. ride for cancer: http://www.tourofhope.org/toh/index.htm
(Lance will join them at times)
ibike.org
The
Bicycle Service Station Version 2.0.
http://www.mikebentley.com/bike/
Vancouver
Bicycle Club
http://www.bicycle-gifts.com/blinks.htm
http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/bike/
Bicycles
FAQ
http://www.jackvinson.com/cycling/
1909
bike race
http://www.sheldonbrown.com/humor/index.html
http://www.caseweb.com/oleancycle/links.html
http://cyclinglinks.tripod.com/
http://danenet.wicip.org/bcp/links.html
http://www.xs4all.nl/~epvdmark/cyclinglinks.htm
http://dir.yahoo.com/Recreation/sports/cycling/
MTB
Review
http://www.cycling-toplinks.com/
I've gone to "Bike Week" in Toronto the last few years. They have invited us all to attend their yearly celebration. It's free. If you haven't biked there, I heartily recommend it. Although they have lots of folks who ride year round, I don't like cold weather biking. However, it's a great place to bike. Consider going there for their annual bike week. It's a blast. http://www.city.toronto.on.ca/cycling/bikeweek/index.htm The co-op in Toronto is a great place to get bike stuff too. I got my favorite bike jacket there. And given the difficulty Toronto had with tourism in 2003 due to SARS, I know they appreciate the visitors even more! I rode on the waterfront trail with some of the cycling ambassadors this year, and it was lots of fun!
How about something from Australia? (If these guys used more Potbelly Cyclists, they'd need less cyclists!) http://www.nccnsw.org.au/~cmass/index.shtml
The editor had a blast at INTERBIKE 97 &
98 in Philly and INTERBIKE 2000, 2001, and 2002 in Las Vegas. Rather
than duplicate pictures already on the web, look up Interbike on the
web, and see the pictures. (In1997 I started the ride early Sunday
morning after the main group left, I pedaled like heck to catch
up...only to find out there was a VERY long, wicked hill ahead! But I
had fun passing some of those anorexic looking folks while going up
that hill anyway. And did I smoke 'em on the downhill! The '98 one
was also a lot of fun, but didn't have a group ride. The Nevada show
is BIG. There we have gone on rides in Blue Diamond, Nevada. It's
lots of fun, although a bit warm in the summer!
A member's
page: http://hometown.aol.com/tpath55mi/auto
One of our members asked us to publicize a request for donations: Donations to Dan's charity (Note: this was a few years back, but I'm sure the charity will still accept checks.)
Non Bicycling Links:
Giant
Turkey Virus Other
interesting stuff
Good Book: Worth Your Weight (c 1996)
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http://www.monkeys.com/wpoison/
Funny
Bill Clinton T-shirts! Take a look at these: I
didn't sleep with Bill Clinton. (copyright 1998)