day two new york city riding out of town today so we're going across the bridge from brooklyn
into manhattan across manhattan and then into another state our destination is the 9w market
which is quite a popular ride for new yorkers we've opted to get up nice and early because
it's going to be 33 degrees again so early start consumed a fair few beers and quite a big pizza
yesterday so feeling a bit not feeling the best but look where we are this is cool
even though we've been here a couple of days i've actually missed the noise we've managed to stay in
the quietest place in the whole of new york city somehow i think we lucked out to be honest i
think we got very lucky with the um accommodation choices i think we are yeah just doesn't overtake
people and then they just we stop at the red light and then they go past us so we just look like
knobs because we're because we're not new yorkers i really thought getting up early would mean there
would be slightly less people around i was wrong uh obviously new york starts its day at 5 00 am so
a city that never sleeps daisy that's what i heard is that why i haven't slept no that's jet lag
i'm confused by the parking situation in new york crazy why are they in the middle is that parking
george washington bridge it took us a while i imagine if you were a local you'd know all
the routes and there'd be a much quicker way to get here because it must have taken us over an
hour of just traffic light traffic light traffic light traffic light i'm pretty sure when we did
this ride in winter when we were with new yorkers that we like crossed central park and then managed
to hit the river straight away which was a busier but much quicker road once we got over this bridge
we will officially be in new jersey and almost straight away we'll be on a very very nice quiet
road down by the river i think it might be called the river road and then we're basically going to
follow that until the point we turn around there's some cafes and stuff i think an old police station
on the way i can't exactly remember it was so long ago since i last went but um nice to be
doing it in basically the opposite conditions there are some people on electric vehicles here
absolutely ruining it there's technically a speed limit for bike spur got these ones
swift again
made it across the bridge first little stop and refuel on the menu today
is sour sticks that is a visual representation of how you'll feel after eating sour sticks
i actually really like riding through the city and if you want to see new york it's
one of the best ways to do it you can rent city bikes you can bring your own bikes i'm sure rcc
exists in new york it does because we've been there i don't know if they rent bikes
but they might if you need a better bike than the city bikes uh that might be a good option
it's just such a good way to see a place because it slows you down you see stuff
that you wouldn't normally see if you were just taking the subway or taking a taxi and you really
immerse yourself in wherever you may be same rule applies everywhere how are your sour sticks
so i'm pretty convinced that if you live in manhattan you can get out onto nice country
roads like this road bike friendly routes quicker and you can get out of london because as soon
as you cross this bridge you're immediately on nice stuff of course it depends where in
manhattan you live but even if you're kind of on the outskirts of london like i used to live you
still had to commute a significant distance to your right it's a good 40 minutes and then if
you live in central it's even more than that i just always thought massive city like new
york it would take ages to get on the nice roads but not the case as good as you remember it yeah
hotter though it was a lot easier last time in terms of heat i feel like i'm in
a vietnamese jungle right now less paralysis ticks though less tigers
that we know of a bear oh there are bears here today probably do you have bears here
pigeon off the river road now onto the 9w which is well is it a main road it looks like a main road
but it's not a main road because the actual main road is just over there parallel to us
which means it's very very quiet on top of that there's an absolutely massive hard shoulder which
all the cyclists use so there's a lot of riders on here you can see them coming back the other way
what time did they leave their houses this morning ridiculous we're on this for 5k and then
we're going to stop for some food we've got 12 minute video like the inside of my pocket you can
start a channel yeah it's like a podcast of our ride well i actually have many many more videos
oh you could upload the whole series the ride was totally worth it for this piece of toast um
i thought americans couldn't do bread there's our turning round point
nice little refuel at that cafe and um yeah one of the main rides that local new yorkers do you can
carry on going just keep following this road uh make your ride as long as you want for us
this is enough especially considering we live in williamsburg at the moment so we've got a ride
all the way through manhattan as well which is a bit of a time suck should be back before it gets
really hot today i'm going to eat my words
my garment elevation thing is showing a neapolitan ice cream of death i have eaten my words we almost
opted to stay on the main road which would have been less elevation and slightly faster heading
back to george washington bridge but because this is in the shade we've come back to the river road
it means you can take it a little bit easier no cars to contend with
and it takes us all the way back to that bridge well a little bit past it and then you gotta
go up a really steep climb but the lesser of two evils it's definitely warm warm like a lightsaber
warm oh funny fact about the george washington bridge it has two layers so underneath this
road because this one has too much traffic they built another one underneath so it's like a under
road i think that gets too busy as well so maybe they need to add a third one you just keep going
they only had american sized bags your bucket will never be the same again
when you eventually reach a bridge after the chaos of riding through the streets of new
york it's a rare moment of peace a kind of peace anyway it's not like peace and quiet
but it's peace that you're probably not gonna get run over by a motorized vehicle
i say probably because there seems to be a lot of guys riding
scooters that i guess they're pretending that they're e-bikes but they're definitely not in
the last few years since i last came to new york there's been an explosion of way more delivery
riders and people riding electronic vehicles and most of them can do like 50 mile an hour so
probably illegal definitely illegal still rather have them near me than a car though
last few miles i'm cooked it's quite uphill this bridge is really uphill