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On the road with Fast and Fab!!
Festive groups all:
Paulette Meggoe, Jen
Silverman and Claudia
Cummings, top, were on
the women's silver medal
team at Gay Games in
Sydney in 2002. At left, a
warm crowd after dinner
at Biscuit in Brooklyn.
Above, Rebecca, Paula
and April stop for icy
refreshments on the way
to Northhampton. Left,
the Martha scandal breaks
during our visit to New
Hope last spring.
�Fast and Fabulous Cycling 2004
Fast and Fab, New York's LGBT bike club, holds weekly rides along with various social
events, including a monthly dinner at our favorite restaurants. You can get the ride and social
listings on our website, http://www.fastnfab.org; or by subscribing to the Front Runners New
York newsletter, which carries a briefversion of our calendar. We're a committee ofFRNY
(http://www.frny.org) and participate in many Front Runner social, athletic and volunteer events.
Once you show up for a club event and it's clear you are a real person and not a
spammer, you qualify for access to our Yahoo groups site, which lets you post rides and see rides
or other events scheduled by other members. Communication among members largely takes
place by e-mail, so it pays to have internet access.
The rides vary widely in pace, distance, skill level, etc., so it's a good idea to get in touch
with the ride leader and figure out if it's the ride you want to be on; there are also sometimes
last-minute changes. We have a fairly even distribution between men and women, and the vast
majority of our riders are not competitive. The only way to know whether we're a good fit for
you is to do some rides, which cost nothing and require only a heads-up to the leader. And if you
really and truly fall outside any of our ride categories, we'll do our best to match you up with
someone in the club who rides as fast or slow, for as few miles or as many, as you do.
We've adopted the New York Cycle Club ride classification, which uses a letter and
number: A is fast with few stops, B is intermediate and C is fab with lots of stops; the number is
average pace in mph over level ground. What "fast" and "intermediate" and "fab" mean are up
to the ride leader, another good reason to RSVP. Riders on a B15 ride, a fairly common listing,
should expect occasional stops to regroup and a moderate pace of about 15 mph or less. Helmets
are always required, and the distances in the ride listings are always round trip.
Our governance consists of four volunteers: Paula McKinley, Richard Brause and Bob
Nelson, who put together the ride and social calendar and figure out how to pay the bills; and
Paulette Meggoe, our very experienced coach, who is happy to help any Fast and Fab rider with
training or technical questions. We are interested in recruiting members to help run the club;
there is nothing magic about having four people.
Fast and Fab cyclists take part in most ofthe organized rides in the New York City area,
such as the Five Boro Bike Tour, the Montauk Century and many others. Ifyou're planning to
do one of those rides, give us a shout and we may be able to match you with other LGBT riders.
The club also does a number of out-of-town trips, including the New Hope Ride, usually
Memorial Day weekend; a road trip to the Boston to Provincetown Ride in June; a three-day ride
to Northampton, Mass., in July; usually a camping trip; and several trips to triathlons, in
coordination with the New York Tritons, the city's LGBT triathlon club. We often compete in
the latter as part oftri teams, so any cyclist can be part of a triathlon. Fast and Fab had more
than a dozen cyclists at Gay Games in Sydney in November 2002, and we plan to show in even
greater numbers at Gay Games in 2006.
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