RyGanley
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For anyone interested, This is a huge NYC road ride held for the last few years:
http://www.bikenewyork.org/
http://www.bikenewyork.org/
For anyone interested, This is a huge NYC road ride held for the last few years:
http://www.bikenewyork.org/
I did this once. It's cool as hell to ride through the city, but boy is it a slow slog. Like Mergs said, you need to be in front. Thing is, it costs like $100 extra to be in the front. So you'll be in the pack, which is a pack of like 30,000 riders.
I'm doing this ride. We're going to start a mile or so up the road, let the racers pass us and then we'll have a leisurely, yet not jammed, ride around town...
Apologies if you thought I was implying you were cheaping out on the ride. Didn't mean to suggest you were. I was just answering the subsequent post directly.
Sorry, I wasn't implying anything; just trying to read into your post. I'm considering doing this, but I can imagine that Manhattan will be more frustration than enjoyment. Though nowhere near a racer, I keep a consistenly quick pace over distance, and I'd hate to be clogged up for half the ride getting around slower folks...
A lady who is in my spinning class at the gym did it once, and suggested I use my MTB rather than a fixie because of the condition of the roads. I'd only be worried of shredding up the High Rollers on the pavement. Opinions on which bike to use?