Fast and Fab's Leadership

Since the club is a committee of Front Runners New York, we don't have a legal existence or any elections for officers. We welcome new volunteers to lead rides, organize social events and help out with a variety of club functions.  Anyone who would like to be a member of the inner sanctum needs to complete a membership application, pay dues and make some effort to participate in club activities.  Our decision-making process, when there is one, is collective, consensual and usually conducted by e-mail. Our current volunteers include: 

John Chapman, newsletter/calendar editor, keeps our wheels in motion by coordinating our many rides and activities. John is a professional writer by day, and the toast of the town by night. He also makes extraordinary brownies and is a lot of fun, both on and off the bike: eslchapman@gmail.com.

Shawn Hill maintains our spiffy and erudite web site and is the culprit responsible for our jersey design.  Though he is not responsible for any errors on the site, he is pleased to correct the ones brought to his attention.  He and his significant other, Magda Teter, live in Middletown, Conn.  They own, and ride, two tandems, three road bikes, two mountain bikes, a boneshaker, two unicycles and a recumbent:  shill@mail.wesleyan.edu.  

Bob Nelson, public relations coordinator, thinks up funny things to put on the website, handles ride listings in free newspapers and websites and supplies our celebrities for talk shows and photo ops.  By temperament a roadie, he recently acquired a mountain bike and now listens to hip-hop, wears baggy shorts and reads the New York Times style section:  fastnfab@yahoo.com.

Paul Racine, a 12-year member of Front Runners and a board member for several years around the turn of the century, returns to the board as the Fast and Fab representative. Paul began cycling more than 50 years ago, and has done numerous distance rides and centuries, including Boston to Provincetown. His running career includes 15 marathons, among them Boston, Gay Games Amsterdam and five New Yorks. A physical but not intellectual lightweight, he takes size XS in a cycling jersey, shops the boy's department for underwear and climbs the Harlem Hill in Central Park in 0.67 seconds: paulracine@gmail.com

Most importantly, a huge thank you to all the volunteers who kept us eating, socializing and cycling throughout the year, quite often in that order.