The Best Bike Rides in and around NYC.
Riding to Bear Mountain is a bucket-list ride for city cyclists. It might take all day, or just be another training ride, but no matter where you fall in the bike rider spectrum, it is something to be experienced. Both because it’s a great ride, and because, if you’re starting and finishing at the New …
This was originally published on Just Riding Along as Sloppy Season. Looking out the window and seeing roads covered or edged with snow and ice is an increasingly rare phenomenon. The snow we just had was a bigger dump than anything in nearly two years. As an enjoyer of winter, I miss the big snows. …
In a previous post, I detailed long rides that start and finish at the George Washington Bridge. Here, I’ll detail the longer rides I have that start in NYC and go through Westchester. If you like riding long, now is a good time to explore new roads, new routes, and find new favorites. These are …
This is all about long rides from GWB. That’s the George Washington Bridge, the iconic structure that connects the mainland United States to Manhattan Island. It’s the way New York City Cyclists most typically escape the water-surrounded Manhattan Island for long wheeled adventures If you like riding long, now is a good time to explore …
The Garden State is The Riding State New Jersey comes in for lots of derision from New Yorkers. But for city cyclists, it’s the sixth borough, thanks to much more hospitable riding environments than those in southern Westchester. New Jersey bike rides are a thing. Ambitious riders see the George Washington Bridge as the gateway …
Bike Riding to River Road & Nyack 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 every city cyclist. …
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. https://jralong.com/wheretobikenyc/product/nj13-jra-scenic-route-to-orchard-and-wormhole-back-copy/ https://jralong.com/wheretobikenyc/product/nj13-jra-scenic-route-to-orchard-and-wormhole-back/
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 rides that feel like wormholes within the ride. So, forthwith, …
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 Plains from 10am to 2pm. you can ride both north …
