last couple of days riding in new york city now today is
moist but blue skies on the horizon and in the direction we're going it would be rude
to not do a couple of laps of central park before we leave so that's where we're heading
did you notice this morning how big the rain was because everything's bigger in america
the rain droplets are bigger everything's bigger cars roads drinks super-sized drinks
we've got one of them the other day and rain what was that called a big slurp
yeah big slurp of cycling in the rain it is 100 gonna come
central park the last time we came here it snowed which was actually very magical and lovely because
it was christmas time and it was exactly what we wanted from new york now though i'm very happy
today that is not snowing i'm talking about the weather again central park is one very big it's
bigger than prospect park the cycling loop is about seven miles around comparable to richmond
i guess you're going in a big rectangle but the road doesn't follow the rectangle it's nice and
smooth has a couple of climbs in everything here is artificial so they have created
and curated a amazing beautiful set of gardens and as you can see it is very lovely and used
by lots and lots of people there's lots of people running lots of people cycling there's no private
car usage in here just people like maintaining the park and stuff and there's a couple of businesses
there are also crit races that happen around this park twice a week 5 a.m like super super early so
if you're coming to do early laps you probably want to avoid those quick races uh and come a
little bit later but on the other days generally the later you can come the better because it does
get very very busy today everybody's scared of the rain so we've actually got quite a smooth run
it's funny seeing all the parks in the uk because they're like the sahara desert there
and then here everything's just like really green it's really weird
i love it this is what park should be no cars take note royal parks daisy's right i
do think it's green because they're constantly spraying it with sprinklers though sprinklers
what's a squealer a squiggle what's a squiggler
other things about central park it's a one-way system so if you're meeting your friends and
then you miss the place where you're going to meet them you probably have to ride all
the way around the park unless you want to break some laws this does make it a lot safer though
because generally there's not people coming in the other direction at you wiggling around
making things dangerous another thing absolutely nobody stops for the red lights there is a police
car there and they sit there and do not react so this is not advice this is an observation
what does he want was she kind of scared if he did do something or your camera what's wrong is
it crunchy yeah nice i don't know why i just did oh no already i've messed up my camera
it does say it's weather sealed and this is just weather lane bike
now i got a message from a guy from a bike shop and a coffee shop called
rubber and road so we're gonna head there and drink some coffee our route is taking us down
i actually don't know what this road is called but it's very very full of tourists
including us oh a lot of people just run out in front of you don't maybe say anything to me i was
like what are you doing and she was like sorry this is the most new york looking street ever
part of the regime here is that you must smell your coffee before you drink it
it smells like coffee yeah
this is thank you very much before we get like a bit thank you so much thank you
thanks for filling us with coffee safe travels i feel compelled to get this on video because
i'm pretty sure no other place in the world that i've ever been to deals with a problem
like this here in new york when there's potholes or the roads need resurfacing
instead of resurfacing them they just put some metal on it
lovely to meet the chaps from rubber and road we are now on the other side of the city to where we
normally ride uh and we thought we'd take this opportunity to cycle down the west side highway
which uh is this a bit along here big big highway for cars on the left and then lovely segregated
cycle lane all the way along the side here i'm gonna get taken out by one of these bollards
what is that smell smells like food i'm glad you don't have smell-o-vision because whatever
we're riding through absolutely reeks so this is one of the more popular ways
to ride the length of the city because it's less interrupted than any other route uh
so a lot of people will get to this side of the city and then ride all the way down
the length of the island to go on like the 9w ride which we did the other day i can see why
lovely i feel like all i've done on this trip is eat and cycle basically living the dream health
so that was close we basically stopped at a green light because there was an ambulance coming out
and then a guy behind us who had headphones on rode into the back of daisy basically daisy you
stopped a guy getting run over by an ambulance so what we're going to do now to get back to
where we're staying which is in brooklyn instead of cutting across the city we're gonna attempt to
hug this bike lane which goes right round the edge the tip of the island where there's a ferry you
can get to see the statue of liberty and it should drop us off just near williamsburg bridge and then
we ride back no cars on the bridge all the way home this is a lot less stressful that's the first
time i've seen a kid riding a bike oh yeah this is probably the only place you could have a kid
it says bikes only there's loads of people walking in it giant
spiderman last time of the day
you're sick of it yeah yeah because it's so [ __ ] this way it's all right on the other way
less elevation the other way because once you get off this red bit going this way you still
so a lot of things have happened since i last spoke to this camera one i have a nice lovely new
hat two we went to a restaurant and ordered way too much food so now daisy has two little boxes
three about six fire engines have been passed and a helicopter i don't know if that's well i
guess just stuff that happens in this city we're now walking home with very uh full bellies why
are you doing a sad face it's nearly over i'm going to enjoy the last day last full day and
then you go ahead and you go off on another trip no one knows about that yet well he's going to