Dave Wilson, WCC president, is a longtime member who now leads rides for the B-plus group. He has spearheaded the club's Pedals for Progress used bike collection, resultng in the shipment of more than 500 bikes to Central America. He's a senior writer at The Journal News, where he covers Yonkers City Hall, contributes to LoHud.com's Politics on Hudson blog, and writes the cycling blog called The Savvy Cyclist.
David Karel has been a member of the club since 2003, and previously served on the WCC board as the D Ride Coordinator. David enjoys leading rides and exploring the countryside. Biking provides an avenue for David to enjoy the scenery and to leave the worries of the world behind.
Bruce Wells, Membership Chair, has been a member of WCC since 1985, and the author of My WCC. He previously served as President, Golden Apple Chair, and Membership Chair, which is his current function. Bruce started as a C rider and now currently rides with the A group. He leads the club's 200 mile ride every year, and has been known to serve a cold home brewed beer at the end of the ride. Bruce commutes by bicycle to his job in White Plains, where he works for Radio Computing Services.
Avram Karel ("Ave", like Dave), originally from Rockland County and a non-athlete, got "hooked" on cycling when his brother-in-law encouraged him to share the forty mile NYC 5 Boro bike tour held in May 2007--a challenge he never would have considered previously. By joining the Westchester Cycle Club, he discovered the multiple pleasures of exercise, exploration and new friendships and started to lead rides on a regular basis. A former professional drummer/singer/bandleader of 30 years, now managing apartment rentals, Ave began as a D rider and progressed to the B group. Honored as 2007 "Rookie of the Year".
Bjoern promises to keep the squeeks and rattles on his bicycle to a minumum and give Bruce as much of a hard time as possible.
Cheryl is made of sugar and spice and everything nice, and she graciously agreed to return as a B coordinator for a second time.
Debbie welcomes all new riders and especially ride leaders!
Charlie has been a member of the club for over 15 years and knows all safe and enjoyable roads in Westchester.
Bill has been hooked on bicycles since he was a kid. Unfortunately, a bad influence brought him into the dark world of motorcycling during his teen and early adult years. After doing motocross, enduros, and even ice racing on bikes with motors, he finally found that he really preferred pedaling to filling up with gas. He started with mountain biking, a natural evolution from enduros. Three years ago, Bill agreed to ride in the Tappan Zee M.S. ride with a group of doctors. That was all it took to hook him back into road riding. The group comeraderie, and the feeling of freedom and being at one with the universe on a bike, keep him cycling to this day. Next, bicycle ice racing!
John says "We have three goals tied to each of our WCC Special Events;
Promote Volunteerism, Increase WCC Club Membership, host FUN social events that follow each of multi-level (A to D) WCC rides."
Ed is the former co-owner of High Caliper Bicycle Company in White Plains. Ed is a registered USACycling Coach and leads rides for the club at all levels. He has done advanced training in time trial and road bike fitting as well as custom bike design. He is also the President of the Unione Sportiva Italiana Cycling Club.
Katie's inner athlete was born while taking yoga at the age of 35. Then, she began to run on the trails with her dogs. Next thing you know, she was running 10K races. A few years ago, she decided to do a sprint triathlon. Six weeks before the race, she fell on a mountain bike and broke her ribs. but she trained through the pain and did the race anyway. Since then she has competed in all types of events, including the Toughman Half Iron triathlon. While she continues to cross train and compete, she has found cycling to be her true passion and now competes in ultra cycling events, road races, crits and time trials.
Steve has been a club member since 2003. He rides as in the C and C+ groups and regularly is a D ride leader. Last year was his first year on the board and he was the Programs Chairperson. This year he is the Incentives Coordinator. He retired from IBM after 30 years of service in 2007.
Al Kaplan is our New Members Advisor. A Bronxite through my college years and a Westchesterite ever since. I became "hooked" on cycling when, by chance, I met some Country Cycle Club members and rode 10 miles with them. I did my one and only Century Ride a few years later. I started leading rides on a regular basis, because the club has given me a tremendous amount of enjoyment (plus free exercise as a bonus); and, this is my way of giving something back to the club. PS: The Country Cycle Club is the previous name of the WCC.
Each spring, Mike gives a course called Effective Cycling on three successive weekends that introduces basic safety and riding principles to cyclists, new to the sport or for those who want to distill years of trial and error into a few short weeks. He served as former President of the Club, Newsletter Editor (in the days before Page Maker) and Program Chair. But Mike will perhaps be best remembered for the many wonderful and successful Golden Apple events he organized.