Is there anywhere to hammer near NYC, besides 9W?!?

[Bacciagalupe]

I gotta know! ;) I like riding on 9W, but riding the same route all the time bores me to tears. I'm considering going out to the Great Swamp, but that seems like it would take forever to get there and back on NJ Transit on the weekends.

Any ideas?

[zowie]

I like to take Knickerbocker up to Rockland County. There are some lights and one phallic thing, but not that frequent and its well paved and shady.

[Scorer75]

Knickerbocker? where is this and can you provide a google link?

[slynkie]

Westchester? NYCC has cue sheets to get up here - http://www.nycc.org/rl_db/home.aspx

[Scorer75]

Thanks

[alanfleisig]

Check out the instructions to download the route of the "Gimbels Ride" here

http://www.usicycling.org/rides.php

Gimbels Ride:
When: Saturdays & Sundays at 9:20AM
Where: Cross County Shopping Center (Yonkers, NY)
This is the premiere ride in the northeast, if not the country, attracting upwards of 100 riders in warmer weather. The ride starts at the south facing steps of Macy's (formerly Gimbel's) Department store in the Cross County Shopping Center in Yonkers NY, at 9:20 am. You can park your car there. You can also join us as we ride northward on Central Avenue (Rt. 100) through Yonkers, Scarsdale, and White Plains. Ride splits into 3 after the warm-up, depending on your ability. All 3 rides finish in the same place, New Rochelle.

Thanks to Pete Greges, we now have the Gimbel's "regular" ride (aka "short" ride) mapped to Google Earth. First you need to download the Google Earth application. Once you have installed the application on your computer, you can download this ZIP file of Gimbel's "regular" ride map. Inside the ZIP file you will find a .kml file you can double-click to run in Google Earth.

[Stacy]

Check out the instructions to download the route of the "Gimbels Ride" here

http://www.usicycling.org/rides.php

Gimbels Ride:
When: Saturdays & Sundays at 9:20AM
Where: Cross County Shopping Center (Yonkers, NY)
This is the premiere ride in the northeast, if not the country, attracting upwards of 100 riders in warmer weather. The ride starts at the south facing steps of Macy's (formerly Gimbel's) Department store in the Cross County Shopping Center in Yonkers NY, at 9:20 am. You can park your car there. You can also join us as we ride northward on Central Avenue (Rt. 100) through Yonkers, Scarsdale, and White Plains. Ride splits into 3 after the warm-up, depending on your ability. All 3 rides finish in the same place, New Rochelle.

Thanks to Pete Greges, we now have the Gimbel's "regular" ride (aka "short" ride) mapped to Google Earth. First you need to download the Google Earth application. Once you have installed the application on your computer, you can download this ZIP file of Gimbel's "regular" ride map. Inside the ZIP file you will find a .kml file you can double-click to run in Google Earth.

This is featured in the July issue of Bicycling

[slynkie]

I'd love to try the Gimbels ride someday soon, but I'm not sure I'd be able to keep up just yet.

I always thought it was a Sunday-only ride, fwiw.

[geo8rge]

Take Jersey Shore line down to Long Branch(or further) , Ride back to Newark. Make sure you know how to get to the Henry Hudson bike path (leave bike path at Key Port, or proceed to Matawan and take the train back). 80 mi or so. I suggest you buy a paper street map to help navigation.

[zowie]

Knickerbocker? where is this and can you provide a google link?

After GWB, take Hudson Terr. or Sylvan to W. Englewood Ave (the cross-street where Hudson Terr. ends).

Make a left on W. Englewood, bomb down the pallisades, and Knickerbocker is a few block after you cross the train tracks in the Englewood shopping district. If you get to the end of W. Englewood, you overshot it by about 5 blocks.

Knickerbocker will take you north all the way to the top of the Oradell Resevoir. I've always enjoyed riding on Knickerbocker.

It then hooks into Livingston St. which takes you up near Piermont and 9W (e.g., Rt. Oak Tree> Left Piermont Rd).

[Bacciagalupe]

Thanks, I'll check out Knickerbocker. Might be good to take one way up and the other down.

Did a nice ride out near Princeton today. Hopefully I can find more routes a little closer to home tho' ;)

[D1Omer]

A lot of people go to Nyack/Piermont in Rockland, very popular along 303.