Anyone in NYC planning on doing this? I went for the past 2 years and it was a blast... Its a perfect chance to get out and ride a part of the city you usually wouldn't go to with about 5,000+ people. Pretty diverse course w/ some decent hills thrown in. Anyone interested? I'm looking at all you thursday night Prospect Park Guys...


October 23rd

Largest Free cycling Event in NYC

25 & 40 mile routes

https://www.tourdebronx.org

sounds real good.

We already talked about it, but I'll probably be there.

I may, but just getting up there will take me forever.

I'm there. I'll be on a mtb with a triple....no more fixies or SS for my old knees, alas.

Everyone has great things to say after riding this one, so the more the merrier.

I'm not riding fixie, but will be riding from the Riverdale start, and (I expect) riding up to the start from Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, if anyone wants to join up!

There are lots of starting areas. It's easy to get there on Metro North or the #4 (from the City). I'll be there, from the Botanic Garden end. City Island will be fun to see with a thousand cyclists zooming around! I'm a new rider so I'll need all 27 gears on my Cannondale to get me around...

arrrr, that be my birth day. Dunno if I can make this ride...entertaining non-bike folks and all :/

Sunshine tomorrow?

i registered but unsure of the weather

i live in the bx all my life, bx=ghetto!

lol so are you saying we should or should not do this ride?
personally it seems like i'd have to wade through a sea of children and grandma's.. i'm skipping it in favor of sleep and booze.

So let's see, a 2+ hour drive, wind, cold and a scenic ghetto ride?
Sleep and booze are looking really good!

anyone do it today? I skipped as I am sick....no booze but plenty of chicken soup and robitussin.....

Great ride! a little cold in the morning, but the rain held off and the sun came out later on... This years mandatory checkpoints were pretty lame though

sure enjoyed that ride. thanks to Izumi for guiding us back downtown afterwards.

It was a great ride, and I didn't see much in the way of ghetto but rather lots of great bike paths, some wonderful views over the Long Island Sound, and some nice buildings where once there was urban blight. It wasn't the best organized ride (the rest stops -- esp the first -- were lame) but I had a good time. Will prob do it again next year, then head for the booze and sleep...

Yeah...the enforced rest stop (the first one) was a bit of a pain, but it was the only real letdown (well, the couple of times the ride crossed its own path were a little confusing, but that was resolved quickl enough). Even so, there wasn't much of a problem being bogged down by traffic or by big groups of slower riders -- we had a speedy little group on track bikes together for most of the latter half of the day, and generally had a blast. One of the most enjoyable big-organized-thousands-of-people rides through the city I've been on; I'd definitely recommend next year's to anybody who passed on it this time around.