These links are selected by the Communications Coordinator (communications@5bbc.org) as possibly of interest to our members. Listing of organizations and activities that are not sponsored by the 5BBC does not constitute or imply endorsement by the 5BBC.

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Staying alive

• Emergency first aid for cyclists

Rules of the road

• New York State Bicycle Laws. From the NYS Department of Transportation.

LIRR bike permits

• Bike Perimits
  

Bike clubs

• Five Borough Bicycle Club (5BBC). New York's friendliest bike club, and our favorite.
• Time's Up!
• The Weekday Cyclists
• Fast & Fabulous
• Bike Friday Club of New York
• The New York Cycle Club (NYCC)
• Staten Island Bicycling Association
• NJ Randonneurs
• Bicycle Touring Club of North Jersey (BTCNJ)
• Westchester Cycle Club
• Westchester Mountain Bike Association
• The Metro Area Recumbent Society (MARS)
• Suffolk Bicycle Riders Association (SBRA)
• Massapequa Park Bicycle Club
• Bike Around Long Island
• Huntington Bicycle Club
• Major Taylor Cycling Club
• New York Bike Messenger Association

Non-bike clubs

• Miramar Ski Club is a volunteer, not-for-profit organization that runs bus trips from NYC to Vermont every weekend during ski season. Activities include downhill, cross-country, and snowboarding. Guests are welcome.
• Ski Club of New York, offers winter trips to New England and the Adirondacks. All trips feature snowboarding, downhill and cross country skiing, and some allow for snowshoeing.

Advocacy organizations

• Time's Up! is a not-for-profit New York City-based direct-action environmental group that uses events and educational programs to promote a more sustainable, less toxic city.
• Transportation Alternatives is a 5000-member NYC-area non-profit citizens group working for better bicycling, walking and public transit, and fewer cars.
• Neighborhood Open Space Coalition (NOSC), part of the TreeBranch Network, is dedicated to improving New York's parks, waterfronts, community gardens, and open spaces through advocacy, research, education, and planning.
• The Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance is a growing network of organizations and concerned individuals dedicated to helping this region reclaim and reconnect to our greatest natural resource--the harbor, rivers and estuaries of the New York and New Jersey waterfront.
• League of American Bicyclists (LAB). 5BBC is an affiliated club of LAB, which promotes the interests of bicyclists nationwide.
• New York Bicycle Coalition provides a coherent, credible voice for the interests of all bicyclists in the state, on- or off-road, recreational or racer.
• Rails-to-Trails Conservancy is dedicated to creating a nationwide network of public trails from former rail lines and connecting corridors.
• The Lance Armstrong Foundation (LAF) believes that in the battle with cancer, unity is strength, knowledge is power and attitude is everything. Founded in 1997 by cancer survivor and champion cyclist Lance Armstrong, the LAF provides the practical information and tools people living with cancer need to live strong.

Bicycle rental

• Bike New York and Transportation Alternatives have lists of places you can rent bikes.

Bicycle recyclers

• Recycle-a-Bicycle NYC is a hands-on way to promote everyday bicycle use, learn bicycle mechanics, interact with positive, forward-thinking NYC youth and a good place to find that city bike you need!

Getting around

• Metro-North and LIRR bike permits.
• NYC Bicycle Maps - featuring bike maps of each the five boroughs.

Parks and recreational facilities

• Manhattan Waterfront Greenway. The new 32-mile bike/ped route that circumnavigates the island of Manhattan.
• New Jersey's Palisades Interstate Park. Don't just stare across the river at those cliffs. Go there!

Bicycling discussions

• 5BBC Message Board. Got a bicycle-related question or info you want to share? Post it here!
• Ebikes. NYC area web bicycle server. Includes links to other local cycling clubs.

Bicycling information

• Yahoo! New York cycling listings. An online directory of bicycling in and around New York City.
• FindMeABicycle.com has information you need when buying a bicycle.
• Jim Langley's "wrench" pages may be the best website on basic bike repair and maintenance.
• Bicycling Street Smarts. Everything you wanted to know about safe bicycling.
• The Sheldon Brown Articles. Probably more than you wanted to know about your bicycle – but it's all there when you need it. Sheldon, we'll miss ya.
• Bicycle Helmet Safety Institute. Definitely more than you wanted to know about your helmet.
• bikeTV is a cable-access show which revolves around bicycling in the NYC-metro area and beyond.
• New York Cycle News - NYC-area bicycle and alternative transportation news. Includes up-to-date info on bridge access.
• Bicyclinginfo.org, Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center
• Bike Hudson Valley. Don't ride north without it.
• Bikeaccess, info on traveling with bicycles
• Adventure Cycling Association. Inspiring people to travel by bike.
• Impressions from bicycle travels. Visual stories of bike tours from America and Asia.