Patrick Jones said:

Hi all. I submitted the waiver and fee after doing the new member ride Sunday. I have a good feeling about this.

As I mentioned to a few of you yesterday, I'm coming to you after about 5 1/2 years of riding in the city as my main transportation, mostly commuting from my apt in Kensington up to Columbus Circle every day (I moved to a job on Chambers Street last summer which has shortened my commute unfortunately). I ride year round. This has all been on an aging C600, maybe 12,000 miles? I lost track.

While my daily commute will always be a part of my life in NYC, it's time to explore new horizons with this brand new SuperSix that I have merely 100 miles on, and no clips yet. Correct, I have never ridden with clips. This will be a nice steep learning curve for sure. I look forward to your hundreds of years worth of collective knowledge to help me along.

See you soon. Peace out...

Pat

Pat - Do you have clip in pedals and shoes yet ? When I bought my bike they didn't let me go outside till I clipped in and out half a billion times on a trainer. It felt excessive but after 10 or 15 min I went outside and road down the street with no issue (and eventually home with said bike).

In the good old days, we had a cleat on the bottom of the shoe and rat traps to hold your foot down onto the pedal. You had to lean down and loosen the strap before you could get your foot out. Even so, I don't think my foot ever got stuck in the pedal, even during a crash. My original shoes had leather soles and I think the cleats were nailed on.

JoshuaC said:

Patrick Jones said:

Hi all. I submitted the waiver and fee after doing the new member ride Sunday. I have a good feeling about this.

As I mentioned to a few of you yesterday, I'm coming to you after about 5 1/2 years of riding in the city as my main transportation, mostly commuting from my apt in Kensington up to Columbus Circle every day (I moved to a job on Chambers Street last summer which has shortened my commute unfortunately). I ride year round. This has all been on an aging C600, maybe 12,000 miles? I lost track.

While my daily commute will always be a part of my life in NYC, it's time to explore new horizons with this brand new SuperSix that I have merely 100 miles on, and no clips yet. Correct, I have never ridden with clips. This will be a nice steep learning curve for sure. I look forward to your hundreds of years worth of collective knowledge to help me along.

See you soon. Peace out...

Pat

Pat - Do you have clip in pedals and shoes yet ? When I bought my bike they didn't let me go outside till I clipped in and out half a billion times on a trainer. It felt excessive but after 10 or 15 min I went outside and road down the street with no issue (and eventually home with said bike).

I started with double sided "spd" mountain bike style pedals and moved up to road pedals after a few months. Speedplay makes double sided road style pedals(easier to learn on), Shimano makes single sided road pedals (that are a bit more common). Pedal choice is a holy war you can probably find a decent amount of written material on. Best advice - try them out in a shop and see what works best for you.

I don't have clip in pedals yet. I'm working my way through the kit stuff today and tomorrow and then going to turn my attention to the clips. 

I suggest taking this shoe/pedal discussion to the Tech/gear thread. There is a TON of information about different pedal systems from the JP/Yacks/Lt Dan love for speedplays, Stokes & Ragot singing the praises some wacky track pedal that looks like it was designed in 1984 but will never accidentally release *ever*. As well as a million other opinions about Shimano, Look and others. 

I remember racing in clips and straps with a cleat that just had a slot in the middle (oh those were the days). I remember being in a crit where for the first lap I was slowly drifting back and losing position as everybody else was accelerating trying to get my left strap to cinch down, (one hand on the bars, one yanking on the strap, trying to pedal, steer, get my foot cinched down) and then spending two laps catching back onto the back end of the race. The rest of the race was just getting up to the front. I can't imagine doing that again. 

Hiya, I'm Alex - met some of you on the new member ride on Sunday.  (I was the guy on disc brakes; think of me as a time-traveler from an alternate universe in which disc brakes are legal and heavy is the new cool.)  

Welcome, Alex!  Disc brakes might not be legal, but illegality is appealing.  Aren't heist movies awesome?

Welcome to the club, Alex.  

@Joshua- Congratulations to Alice (and you).  I trust Alice will be willing to render psychiatric advice to KCC on a pro bono basis?

neilx said:

@Joshua- Congratulations to Alice (and you).  I trust Alice will be willing to render psychiatric advice to KCC on a pro bono basis?

1st piece of advice. Don't get started bicycle racing. It's worse than gambling.

Congrats Josh,

and since you're moving to a smaller apt, if you need to unload any cycling gear, you know you'll always have Kissena's willing to take them off your hands

Howdy all,

New gunslinger Jake here. Six years experience on the bike, 29 in life. Little to no race experience. Looking forward to mixing it up and developing some new skillz.

Me ride pretty someday.

Welcome aboard Jake!!

Welcome Jake.

Welcome Jake.  See you on the bike.

Bump

Hey Jules!

Welcome to the club Jake!

Hi y'all,

Welcome Kayt!

Welcome to the club, Kayt!

Kayt!!! So glad you decided to join the club!

Nice meeting you on Saturday Kayt. Welcome to the club!

Welcome!

Welcome Kayt and belated welcome to Jake too.

Hey Kayt! Welcome to the club and great meeting you this morning! 

New guy here, couple of years on the bike and exactly zero racing experience-- I keep seeing Kissena riders early in PP, and all the time out in Jersey and points north, etc.  Seems to make sense to join up!

Welcome Dave! You will find that this is a life changing experience...(we are at least good for a few laughs). See you on the road.