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DailyBicycle.com by Oliver Carbonell Quick Q&A with Ellen Jaffe of New York Cycling Club We interviewed newly elected 2011 New York Cycling Club President, Ellen Jaffe. As club president, she’ll face both challenges and opportunities in the coming year. Read in her own words what NYCC is about and some of the challenges and opportunites she and her volunteers face in 2011. DailyBicycle: First of all, congratulations on winning NYCC’s election for club president for 2011! I’m sure you have your work cut out for you in the year to come. For our readers who aren’t familiar with NYCC, can you explain the club’s mission? Ellen Jaffe: Thanks Oliver. I’m privileged to be president of New York Cycle Club in 2011….our club’s 75th Birthday year! We are NYC’s largest recreational bike club. Our commitment is to having as much fun as possible on a bicycle.  We organize weekly rides, weekend trips, training programs and special events for novice and experienced cyclists. Our all-volunteer club is also deeply involved in the community, staging our annual Escape New York Ride and along the way raising significant money for Recycle-A-Bicycle and Transportation Alternatives. DailyBicycle: What are some of NYCC’s more popular events and when are they held? Ellen Jaffe: Escape New York is our largest and most visible event. The 17th Annual ENY will be on September 24, 2011….when 2000 riders will enjoy exuberant NYCC hospitality….not to mention great routes, abundant food, a fabulous festival, and amazing raffle. Other major rides are our annual Newcomers ride in June, and All-Class ride in July plus club weekends to the Berkshires and to West Point. DailyBicycle: As the leader of the organization, what do you see as major club challenges for 2011? Ellen Jaffe: One major goal for 2011 will be to involve a much broader swath of members in club activities….be it rides or our numerous special events. We’ll do everything we can to encourage broader member participation across all our offerings. DailyBicycle: Does NYCC partner or work with other organizations? Ellen Jaffe: Recycle-A-Bicycle is a longtime NYCC partner. Many of our club members work with RAB’s Kid’s Ride Club as volunteer ride leaders….getting disadvantaged kids onto bikes and into lives with more possibility. DailyBicycle: The Escape New York ride sounds like a fitting event for New Yorkers! After all, who among us New Yorkers with a bike doesn’t want to escape the city once in a while? So where do the riders ‘escape’ to and how does one get to participate in this event? Ellen Jaffe: Escape New York offers three glorious routes of 50, 66 or 100 miles…..from Manhattan across the GW Bridge and onto the most scenic roads of the West Hudson Highlands, returning in the afternoon to our festival finish in Manhattan…..with food and drink galore. Riders sign up online in the months preceding the event. DailyBicycle: Can you tell us a little about your partner Recycle-A-Bicycle? Sounds like they’re doing good things to promoting an expansion of young minds through cycling. What else do they do? Ellen Jaffe: RAB in a few words……Recycle-A-Bicycle gets kids into healthier lives …..mentally, physically, emotionally, aspirationally. DailyBicycle: How can people find out more about NYCC? Ellen Jaffe: To find out more about NYCC…..check out our website! http://www.nycc.org/ Or come to a club meeting! The next one is January 11 and we have a blockbuster guest speaker……the inimitable Commissioner of Transportation for the City of New York, the honorable Janette Sadik-Khan! But come early. We’ll have a packed house. see our website for details. DailyBicycle: Thanks Ellen… and best of luck as club president in 2011! Copyright 2010 DailyBicycle

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by Oliver Carbonell

Quick Q&A with Ellen Jaffe of New York Cycling Club

We interviewed newly elected 2011 New York Cycling Club President, Ellen Jaffe. As club president, she’ll face both challenges and opportunities in the coming year. Read in her own words what NYCC is about and some of the challenges and opportunites she and her volunteers face in 2011.

DailyBicycle: First of all, congratulations on winning NYCC’s election for club president for 2011! I’m sure you have your work cut out for you in the year to come. For our readers who aren’t familiar with NYCC, can you explain the club’s mission?

Ellen Jaffe: Thanks Oliver. I’m privileged to be president of New York Cycle Club in 2011….our club’s 75th Birthday year! We are NYC’s largest recreational bike club.

Our commitment is to having as much fun as possible on a bicycle. 

We organize weekly rides, weekend trips, training programs and special events for novice and experienced cyclists. Our all-volunteer club is also deeply involved in the community, staging our annual Escape New York Ride and along the way raising significant money for Recycle-A-Bicycle and Transportation Alternatives.

DailyBicycle: What are some of NYCC’s more popular events and when are they held?

Ellen Jaffe: Escape New York is our largest and most visible event.

The 17th Annual ENY will be on September 24, 2011….when 2000 riders will enjoy exuberant NYCC hospitality….not to mention great routes, abundant food, a fabulous festival, and amazing raffle.

Other major rides are our annual Newcomers ride in June, and All-Class ride in July plus club weekends to the Berkshires and to West Point.

DailyBicycle: As the leader of the organization, what do you see as major club challenges for 2011?

Ellen Jaffe: One major goal for 2011 will be to involve a much broader swath of members in club activities….be it rides or our numerous special events.

We’ll do everything we can to encourage broader member participation across all our offerings.

DailyBicycle: Does NYCC partner or work with other organizations?

Ellen Jaffe: Recycle-A-Bicycle is a longtime NYCC partner. Many of our club members work with RAB’s Kid’s Ride Club as volunteer ride leaders….getting disadvantaged kids onto bikes and into lives with more possibility.

DailyBicycle: The Escape New York ride sounds like a fitting event for New Yorkers! After all, who among us New Yorkers with a bike doesn’t want to escape the city once in a while? So where do the riders ‘escape’ to and how does one get to participate in this event?

Ellen Jaffe: Escape New York offers three glorious routes of 50, 66 or 100 miles…..from Manhattan across the GW Bridge and onto the most scenic roads of the West Hudson Highlands, returning in the afternoon to our festival finish in Manhattan…..with food and drink galore.

Riders sign up online in the months preceding the event.

DailyBicycle: Can you tell us a little about your partner Recycle-A-Bicycle? Sounds like they’re doing good things to promoting an expansion of young minds through cycling. What else do they do?

Ellen Jaffe: RAB in a few words……Recycle-A-Bicycle gets kids into healthier lives …..mentally, physically, emotionally, aspirationally.

DailyBicycle: How can people find out more about NYCC?

Ellen Jaffe: To find out more about NYCC…..check out our website! http://www.nycc.org/

Or come to a club meeting! The next one is January 11 and we have a blockbuster guest speaker……the inimitable Commissioner of Transportation for the City of New York, the honorable Janette Sadik-Khan! But come early. We’ll have a packed house. see our website for details.

DailyBicycle: Thanks Ellen… and best of luck as club president in 2011!

Copyright 2010 DailyBicycle

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