Originally Posted by
Andrew R Stewart
NYC has hills?
My tour from Rochester to Boston averaged around 9mph. Along the flat (by most anyone's standards) Erie Canal route it was about 11mph but the Berkshires dropped that a lot. Andy
The Bronx is hilly, and there are the bridges. Both Prospect Park and Central Park have a hill. But that's about it. And as I said I rarely go off the big ring on any of it. There is one hill in Highland Park on the Bkln/Queens border that is 6.7% for about 500'. That's the steepest grade I know.
The ride I'm doing is actually the Empire State trail so that includes a lot of the same ride. I ride around the Berkshires too but never found it too bad.