new york city another scorching day today we're cycling to
a brewery dangerous near to a place called tarry tower stress-free because we're just
on our way to meet our friend nuria who's going to show us the way also there's something quite
cool happening in the city today because it's the weekend and i think we're going to intercept it
it's summer streets in new york it's like three weekends of the in the summer they close it to
traffic and it's like pedestrians and bikes i need coffee i have headphones let's have a coffee
so it really is stress free these road closures basically go from brooklyn bridge
near where we are all the way down to 110th street so it's a long way
they do this three saturdays in summer and as you can see it's very popular loads of
people coming out jogging cycling walking just enjoying a bit of peace away from uh
well all the cars we're now pretty much riding the length of manhattan
following nuria and then we just keep going north until we get to the beers and get a train home
this is the most relaxed i've been in the last five days i feel very wrong to not have to
stop all the time yeah weird i feel like i'm breaking the law obviously this is fantastic
but it should be like this all the time it could be like this all the time obviously
with some tweaks there are circumstances where there has to be cars but on the whole no one
gets anywhere in this city driving a car so why can't there be way more space allocated
for people like this on bikes and legs it's a good example of build it and they will come
that's better busy city bit now done i'm very very happy that we have neuria with us because
never getting that on our own just with uh devices would have been tricky so we're having a little
break this is van courtland park this is a part that a lot of you've been mentioning in
the comments because it's where the empire state trail which is a fairly new basically bike path
um that's been set up that goes really really far north i think maybe even all the way to canada
don't quote me on that but that starts somewhere in the park here we're following a separate trail
heading towards tarrytown and sleepy hollow which is fairly concerning because i saw a documentary
about that once and there's definitely a headless horseman that hangs out there
so we've gone from complete chaos to absolute peaceful serenity this trail is amazing completely
paved completely smooth so road bike friendly and this is going to basically take us the whole way
up to our destination i will admit if you were to replicate this ride it is a little
bit of a mission to get there to get to the start where the park was where we just were
but nuria has just told me that you can in fact get a train uh you can get the subway with a bike
now i'm not sure about the timings exactly i would urge you to check before trying to do it
uh but on the weekends when it's a little bit quieter i don't think there's too many issues
taking a bike on the subway with you and there's a stop that delivers you directly to the park that
we were just in which means you cut out all of the quite busy bit from the top of central park
up to where we stopped once that bit's out the way though well as you can see it is very very
nice lots of other riders out you can get a good pace going there are a few walkers i imagine
when it's not 34 degrees there probably would be more people out on this trail but because it's
so hot at the moment people are kind of doing their exercise in the mornings and the evenings
but on the whole you can ride this tempo without too many issues at all it's derwent walk
daisy's learning to do no hands good place to do it you can do it
oh yeah
we are now getting the train home are you ready
captain lawrence brewery fantastic little place to stop on your ride i would say it would be
quite hard to find so definitely google maps it's kind of like at the back of a car park so
if you don't know what you're looking for it'd be quite hard to find we have
acquired one more person this is louis hello representing techas i thought i recognized
the jersey he was a little speck in the horizon for a bit and i was like
it looks like a techa's jersey it is a texas jersey all in all nice beer nice pizza live
music definitely recommend on the downside we've now got a five mile ride to the train station
we are now in sleepy hollow they're headless careful guys
yeah be careful if you see a guy on a horse run
this is what a train is like in america sticky but there is space for bikes this
train takes you all the way back to grand central station and costs 11
i know this from madagascar it's a pleasure
stepping off that train it's like stepping into a sauna we're now about an hour away
from home this ride just keeps on going luckily direction wise we're basically
riding in a straight line and then going left and then riding in a straight line one of the
nice things about navigating in new york city it's all pretty much straight lines
it's kind of funny that in new york because everyone's so busy no one looks at you weird
for cycling around with a gopro in your mouth that's true before talking to a camera generally
how are you so confused it's just been hot all day
thoughts and feelings on today's ride i really liked it nice and flat off-road most of it
even the on-road bits were alright weren't they they weren't that bad
i think it feels like all the trucks and everything look big and scary but actually
it's fine captain lawrence you did us proud i miss lawrence
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