Buy The WTBNYC Book.
Spiral Bound. Yes. Paper. The old-fashioned way. Easier to read. Easier to peruse. Easier to remember. Easier to use as a reminder. Can be left out to check back with later. Doesn’t take electricity to read.
Here’s a ride sample:
But it’s not backlit. It doesn’t fit in a jersey pocket as well and you probably aren’t going to want to carry it on a ride.
Ah, choices, choices.
The New York Times read it. They prounounced it, “a nifty guide for people looking for exercise, adventure, sightseeing or commuting alternatives.”
VeloJoy, now deceased, said, “What I like best about this guide is its user-friendly organization and layout. Each of the six main sections, coded by color, begins with information about the borough, plus a map with schematics of each route.
“A rich At-a-Glance overview of each ride includes categories (urban, suburban, children-friendly, for example), rating of difficulty, distance, elevation, terrain, traffic conditions, nearest public transit, and suggestions for food and drink and local attractions. Next comes a prose description of what to expect on the ride, then a turn-by-turn ride log, and a detailed map.”
A single book is $13.99. Shipping via USPS Media Mail is included.
A six-back of books is $48.00. Shipping via USPS Media Mail is included
Of course, you can do both. Buy the book and download the rides. Classic ‘belt and suspenders’ approach. This way, you can get both.
Single book. $13.99, shipped USPS Media Mail.
Box of Six Where To Bike NYC Spiral Bound Books.
$48.00 Shipped USPS Media Mail.
Both shipped via USPS Media Mail.
If you want to download the rides to your computer, be it a phone, tablet, laptop, desktop, or bike, go here:
https://jralong.com/wheretobikenyc/how-to-download-rides/
Buy The WTBNYC Book.
There’s this crazy thing. Search Engine Optimization. SEO. If you got here by Search Engine, then it was the Optimization which ranked this page high enough to be seen. Allegedly, most people rarely go beyond the third-ranked result spit out by a search engine. So everyone wants to know how to game the system so that their page ranks in the top three. Of course, only three can be there at any time. So everyone wants to know what Google (mainly) favors with their algorithm. Google wants to know as well. I’ve been told think of the algorithm as a black box in a black box, in the secure hold of a ship at the bottom of the ocean. Thing is, everyone’s trying to figure out how to master it.
The tyranny of SEO programs.
Because that’s a job for teams of experts, I’ve outsourced it to Yoast, and because this is a small, entrepreneurial venture, I’m using the free version, so it’s probably not nearly as effective as the paid version. I bring this up because Yoast recommends a certain range of words per page, usually a minimum of 300. My goal is to turn their SEO face graphic green. With this text, and the “Buy The WTBNYC Book” focus keyphrase several times, I have typed in this paragraph to let you know why this is here and why you see that phrase multiple times. Feels a bit cynical–don’t hate the playas, hate the game–but we’re all accomplices here, which makes it more frustrating.
SEO means that big companies have a much easier time getting their products to ‘magically’ float to the top of search engine results. Being small means that no matter where you are, it’s as if you’re trying to sell to people strolling down NYC’s Fifth Avenue while your business is on the outskirts of Fargo, ND.
Yoast also has a “readability” score. And it turns out paragraphs containing over 150 words they have analyzed to be too long for readers. Which is why you see two paragraphs above this one. Kind of feels like a terrible tautology; it works because it works. And will continue working because what else do people know? same goes for the headers I put in above. Yoast drops your score if you have more than a certain number of words between headers. And it dings me for repeating the first word of a sentence a few times. And dings me for not using enough “transition” words.
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