I am thinking whether I will renew my membership after this one expires (although I still got a few gift memberships yet to be used). I've been working from home far from where there are citibike docks since the shelter in place directive and I don't think we will be heading back to the office until sept. Before that, I use to ride around 30-40 miles/day on citibike to and from LIRR to Path in WTC. Now with staying at home, I dug up a 20" mtn bike sitting around and jigged on a 40cm seatpost and spd pedals and get my exercise that way...although at 60 gear inches, it is hard to sustain it above 17mph. My wife also wanted a bike to ride since she found out the breeze from riding is much more comfortable than jogging in the heat. I was going to get a road bike for her, but doesn't like the near time trial position of my little mtn bike and wanted a 20 inch folding bike.


I figured if the post pandemic office schedule is to show up to the office only a few times a week, I mind as well forgo the LIRR monthly ticket and ride the bike all the way to the city, if its with my bike, lock it up in our NYC office and head to Jersey City via PATH. If I use the folding bike, take it with me on the PATH via any of the stations, depending if I want to do a workout once I am in the city. The issue is how do I get there. I live off Northern blvd and could take that all the way to Queensboro bridge, but there is no bike lane there. Although I use to commute to the city down Northern in my heydays, pedaling as hard as I can on my Italian steel so I catch every green light, then riding rock steady as if I am in a pack on the very edge of the car lane across the bridge. Nowadays, I would prefer to concentrate on riding instead of constantly focusing on accident avoidance (which is still part of riding the citibike in the city, but I quickly head to the hudson river path and do most of the riding there). Queens Blvd is quite a bit away.