Not solely is fall a very good time for what was known as “mountain biking,” however it’s additionally a very good time for commuting by bicycle, which I don’t assume I’ve carried out since Could when some brigand raided my Sackville:
Should you’re gonna drain my sack no less than purchase me dinner first.
In any case, the rationale I haven’t commuted by bicycle since then isn’t as a result of I used to be traumatized by this wanton violation; moderately, it’s as a result of after Could it begins getting scorching–and I simply can’t with the recent. (Not in relation to a 30-plus mile round-trip Bronx-to-Brooklyn bike commute, anyway.) I notice this makes me a “woosie“…
…however at this level in my life I’d moderately simply sit on an air-conditioned prepare and browse and save the using for after I don’t need to be wherever.
However fall brings the crispness, which in flip makes me need to commute by bicycle once more–no less than as soon as in awhile, after I can spare the additional time. (The prepare’s simply quicker over that distance, particularly if you’re as gradual as I’m.) So yesterday that’s what I did:
Now that the Henry Hudson Bridge bike path is full and the Hudson River Greenway is detour-free I can journey from house all the best way to decrease Manhattan virtually completely on bike paths. Actually I barely need to put a foot down, aside from this pedestrian bridge over the railroad tracks in higher Manhattan:
However from there it’s just about a straight shot alongside the mighty Hudson:
The place folks now appear to be constructing trip properties:
He didn’t like me taking photos:
It appeared moderately unreasonable to me that somebody who’s appropriated a big portion of a public park for his personal private residing house must also anticipate whole privateness within the discount, however now that I look extra carefully I see it was star of the silver display Jason Momoa and he should have thought I used to be a paparazzo:
Clearly he’s making ready for his position within the upcoming “Down and Out In Beverly Hills” remake, entitled “Assed Out on the Higher West Facet.”
Ignoring his rantings and making an attempt desperately not to consider what he could be barbecuing, I continued on, hugging the shoreline:
The commute was a lot as I remembered it, although approaching the Manhattan Cruise Terminal I used to be amazed to find a completely new part of motorbike path:
For a number of yards there it felt like being in a very completely different metropolis, how unique.
However sure, in any other case it was all the standard stuff, together with all of the riders getting on and off the Manhattan Bridge in opposition to the sunshine and using proper throughout the trail of automotive site visitors:
The Manhattan Bridge additionally had loads of bike site visitors, although by some means I managed to seize it right here at a second the place none of it was seen:
And gas-powered motor scooters within the bike lane continues to be a factor, too:
Although now they’re no less than going by the difficulty of utilizing clearly faux license plate:
I used to be appalled to see an old-timey Italian slur so quickly after Italian Heritage Day.
Talking of Italian, right here’s an actual head-turner:
That’s Peak Aluminum proper there.
As for me, I used to be using one thing magnetic:
By the best way, the ultra-wide vary crank configuration was completely good for this journey, which is nearly completely flat besides for 2 quick however extraordinarily steep climbs in the direction of the very finish.
I feel I’ll hold it.
