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Riding in New York City is great. But getting over the George Washington Bridge to see what life looks like over on the west bank of the Hudson River is not only a rite of passage, but an adventure that helps complete the education of …
Read MoreI prefer loops to out-and-back rides. And the bigger the loop, the more distance I feel I’ve covered, the better. This ride creates a perimeter of what’s possible when riding from the Jersey side of the George Washington Bridge. At nearly 85 miles, it’s a …
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Did you know you can ride your bicycle on the Bronx River Parkway? It’s been a tradition for 46 years. On most Sundays between the first Sunday in May to the last Sunday in September, a stretch of highway is closed from Tuckahoe to White …
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You’ve been to Piermont perhaps? But probably not this way. You might have gone to The Orchard, but probably not this way, and almost certainly not this way back. As fall arrives, try out some new roads. NJ14 JRA EZ Way to Piermont (and back) …
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I’ve been plying the roads in Northern New Jersey for years. I think it was a friend who started calling rides that totally avoided 9W and the regular haunts of NYC cyclists “wormholes.” I immediately liked it. For me, there are even sections of the …
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Did you know you can ride your bicycle on the Bronx River Parkway? It’s been a tradition for 46 years. On most Sundays between the first Sunday in May to the last Sunday in September, a stretch of highway is closed from Tuckahoe to White …
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The saddest thing about preparing to master the roads and routes of Staten Island was how dedicated cyclists who lived in the borough told me the riding wasn’t good. I appreciated the honesty, noted the blasé humor as an affect of weary cyclists, but was …
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The Borough of Queens has been added. I’ve been riding through Queens for years. However, starting in Manhattan and crossing the Queensboro Bridge, it was hard to get beyond the idea that the borough is choked with cars driving too fast. One of my regular …
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Now that the Mario Cuomo Tappan Zee Bridge bike path is open, more folks seem interested in riding up the west bank of the Hudson to Nyack, crossing the bridge and exploring Westchester. But then they are stuck; no idea where to go. I can …
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