B-SIG 2008

Do you want to jump-start your season? Learn good bike handling skills? Improve your stamina, strength and speed? Get to know some of the great NYCC routes? Learn how to ride safely in a group? Work together with other riders to make any ride easier and more enjoyable? Then take a look at our 2008 B-SIG Riders Guide and decide if you want to sign up for our 10-week progressive training and cycling skills series.

The B-SIG will consist of three speed categories and the Stan Oldack Youth Program:

1. The B16 group will progress from a 14-mph pace and a 30-mile distance on the first day to a 16-mph pace and 70 miles by early May.
2. The B17 group will start at a 15-mph pace and 30 miles and work up to a 17-mph pace and 90-miles by early May, with the option of doing a century on our penultimate ride.
3. The B18 group will advance from a 16-mph pace and a 30-mile ride up to an 18-mph pace and 90 miles by early May with the option of doing a century on our penultimate ride.
4. The Stan Oldak Youth Program will consist of youths (ages 16–22) who have completed both the Youth Program application and the BSIG qualification ride. The group will progress from a 14mph pace and progress according to the ability of the whole group

(Note that any NYCC ride’s average speed is typically 3-mph less than the indicated pace.)

The B-SIG’s dirty little secret is that we also put extra emphasis on making friends, eating great food and having a good time (picture shows some of last year's Siglets enjoying one of their rides).

That’s it in a nutshell.

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