Bike New York

The ride starts at about 8am in Battery Park, so my favorite way of getting there in time is to drive to New Haven, CT and take a special "bike train" at around 4am. No regular passengers...just about 3-400 bikes. Very cool. Standing up in the yellow shirt is Charlie, whom those of you from Transit know (and dislike). He talked me into going with him and I was not disappointed! So much fun.

Looking through the front window of the train, on the way to the City.

Lots of bikes in Grand Central Station

Waiting for our train back to New Haven, in Grand Central Station

Riding through the streets of Manhattan. They close down all the streets that we go on to cars. Inconvenient for traffic, but awesome for us!

Thousands of bikes lined up to start

Thousands of bikes lined up to start

There are all sorts of bikes you see, including this recumbent trike

Thousands of bikes lined up to start, all with our little blue vests on to identify us as riders.

Riding through Central Park. It was a pretty cloudy day, but only rained on us a little.

Riding through Central Park

This is rest stop you get to just after coming back into Manhattan from the Bronx. It was raining here.

FDR Drive in the rain, shut down to southbound car traffic....bikes only today.

Rainy rest stop

A- Queensboro Bridge through the fog from one of the rest areas.

lots of bikes at the Queens rest stop

this looks like the rest stop just before the Verazzano Bridge

My bike on the ground at one of the several rest stops along the route.

Looking up at the Verazzano Bridge through the fog

Taking a short rest on the Verazzano