Also if you want to ***** about an organized ride, I went on last years inaugural Tour de Brooklyn.

It was only from the park to Coney Island and back, which is like 10+ miles or so and kind of silly but I wanted to support it since it was new.

You basically just road down Ocean Pkwy.. The problem was, was that the route wasn't blocked off ahead of time so the police were stopping traffic a few blocks ahead of the ride and then leapfrogging back to the front after the ride passed them. What you basically got was a police pace car keeping the ride at about 10mph and tightly packed. I saw a lot of inexperienced riders bumping tires and falling.

Then at the halfway/refreshment point, we were held for longer than a half hour for no discernable reason.