Braking The Cycle 2008

Team Google is once again preparing to ride in Braking The Cycle. We have a few new team member -- Laura will be riding for the first time, and the friend I made on the ride last year, Alan, will also be riding under Google's colors. Dim, Scott and Francesco will also be returning to ride again.

Googlers are very special people. Our friends on the west coast participate in AIDS Life Cycle, to benefit HIV/AIDS services in Los Angeles and San Francisco. This ride is in early June, and Dim will be travelling west to ride with Team Google there. To show our unity, Team Google will have a single bike jersey for both rides. Stay tuned for pictures.

Scott, being a geek and a boy who loves toys, just bought a new bike -- Trek Madone 4.5 and a Garmin Edge 705 bike computer. Here are the details of his Sunday morning ride around Manhattan. It's the first time I did that ride, and I need to find some better routes. 125th St is a mess, littered with garbage and huge pot holes. Also, the bike maps lie when they say the trail continues at 34th St. It actually starts again at 23rd.

On an administrative note, the Team Google donation page is not yet live, and I need to update the links for Alan, Francesco and Dim's donation pages. This will happen real soon now