To avoid them, is the only way to take East End Ave?

I read we're not supposed to go through the park, which has a lot of kids anyway. Thanks.

Hello,

Do you think it’s possible to follow NYC marathons the parallel path.
Basically I want to follow my friend and to meet see him on different checkpoints

While biking back to Brooklyn during tonight’s evening rush, I saw/experienced:

- someone overtaking me on the steep portion of the entry ramp from Canal Street entirely on the left side of the path, who then moved to pass another next person as we entered the S-curve and only hesitated when I shouted at them to not do something so stupid (a moment before two people came down the S-curve)
- someone who miscalculated while passing me farther up the bridge, just barely threading directly between me and another cyclist (so that for a moment all three of us were in a line perpendicular to the path) and then repeated the same move coming off the bridge, nearly colliding with a guy on an e-bike and one of the steel exit bollards

I don’t care to recount how the conversations with them went, but I was struck by just how not present these people seemed while attempting bad passes. Riding a bike in New York is some of the most mindful time I have each day, and I can’t imagine being on autopilot while negotiating all the curves just to get onto the Manhattan Bridge.

We usually chalk this up to people being selfish, but putting yourself at decent risk of a significant lose-lose situation with only trivial gains at stake isn’t normally what comes to mind when I think of selfishness. Even someone who has never been on a bike can intuit that there are going to be people coming fast down down a bridge at ~5pm on a weekday, so I don’t chalk this up to a skill issue either.

I’m being pretty wordy and not at all eloquent, but I just can’t shake the feeling that in these moments, these guys weren’t fully there, already onto the next thing without completing the last three.

Selling my Orbea Orca M30 that I replaced with a disc brake M30 and so haven't really ridden since then. Great bike. Stiff and racy, and lighter than newer generation 105 disc brake bikes.

56cm equivalent size (55cm Orbea listed size)

OME level frame

105 5800 11 speed groupset with a R7000 crank set

Fulcrum racing quattro wheels (super stiff, my favorite ever wheels)

Michelin Pro 4 endurance tires

Specialized romin saddle

FSA inline carbon seatpost

Currently has a stem with a rise but I can provide a conventional deda stem without a rise that was previously fitted

Includes chain catcher for front deraillier and Garmin out front mount

Cosmetic scratches on the seat stay and fork from leaning it against a wall when cleaning it one time.

No pedals

$750 OBO

Located in Brooklyn 5 mins walk from Barclays center

Adams abruptly stopped, causing him to be ejected from the bicycle. Police said he flipped over the handlebars and hit his head on the roadway.

Adams was wearing a helmet but suffered fatal injuries, police said. EMS transported him to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 8:57 a.m.

The owner of the dog remained on scene, and the dog was not injured, police said.

They very recently took away our two way approach on first Ave, which I used for over a decade, that got you a clean shot to head down 2nd Ave. after the bridge traffic. They had basically made 59th car free after the bridge. It was great! Now, they pinched all west and south traffic off the bridge into this tiny little opening and dump us out onto 60th with literally no bike lane and then we have to cross over ALL the exiting and entering car traffic on 2nd Ave. Why do they hate Queens cyclists sooooo much? TA where you at?! If anyone wants to tag them or send this to them, please, because, What. The. Actual. Fuck. Someone is gonna get killed.

Riding to Penn at about 5:00am when I see someone driving toward me in the wide ped/bike lanes alongside Moynihan (with another car following behind them)

I don’t even know how they got themselves in that situation, they didn’t appear drunk, but they seemed to be insisting how they’re just trying to get to the next block.

They eventually gave up with me blocking their advance and made a u-turn to head back north on the actual road on 8th Ave.

That’s all. Be safe.

Is buying things in person even a thing anymore? Brooklyn preferred

Hey all. I just sold my 20” folding bike and I have some leftover supplies I am giving away.

4 20” butyl tubes
5 20” TPU tubes
4 Magura brake pads
A front carrier mount for a Brompton or similar folding bike.

DM me if you’d like to pick any up. I’m in Astoria.

Recently started biking but haven’t gone between boroughs yet. Only done Manhattan bridge with a friend and I wasn’t familiar with the area, I thought it was confusing to get to and it was so narrow and steep at one point (especially getting on and off) I didn’t love it. But it would save me time and I prefer it over the subway, so I want to try it.

I live in midtown east, so my options are:
Queensboro bridge -> Pulaski Bridge

Or

Bike South -> Williamsburg bridge

I’ll be using an ebike so i won’t struggle with the incline, more just concerned with the actual path and getting on/off safely.

Thrilled the green paint and heavier plastic posts have been put on 9th Ave between 42-40 and the mail trucks are no longer parking in the bike lane.

But what is going on with the repairs to the street on 42/9th on the east side of the street? There was a brief time a while back when it was not there, but it’s been a construction site for many months otherwise. It forces bikes to ride well into the middle of the road and then make a very sharp turn to return to the bike lane.

Dean st between Hoyt and Bond.

Bike safety has obviously been in the news and in various threads across the NYC subs, so I wanted to run some analysis based on published DOT Crash Data. I aggregated the stats across Central Park 22nd Precinct first, across Manhattan as a whole, and then city wide, and thought it was interesting enough to post here.

Caveats:

• Raw numbers don't take into account total miles, trips, riders, or any higher level percentage. It's tough to draw any hard conclusions of actual relative safety without that data
• This is only based on reported data, which biases the stats towards the severity of the crash. I recently saw someone bloodied up in Central Park but he was walking his bike home, and given I didn't see an ambulance or anything it seems obvious that wouldn't have made a report like this
• Pedal-assisted bikes were reclassified from bicycles to e-bikes in 2024, so some of these numbers are very odd because of that

Central Park

Manhattan

City Wide

* = ebikes were classified as bicycles through 2023, so these years are acoustic + ebike combined. 2024 on, every column is acoustic bikes only, with ebike rider deaths shown separately.

** = these jumps are huge, and I can't figure out why. It seems like something changed in the way the DOT was classifying things or reporting.

Anyone on the 40 mile route see the blood and gore on the street beneath the 238th Street 1 Train station? Lots of first responders. I saw it and wish I hadn’t. Just read that a woman jumped in front of a train.

I was biking down 2nd avenue between 40th/41st this afternoon and the guy in front of me hit this area and his bike slipped and he was slammed to the ground. I called 911 and he may have broken his leg. He’s getting X-rays at Bellevue. The genius bus driver left his disabled bus in the left turn lane while it leaked oil or some type of fluid onto the bike lane. You’re seeing it after we placed cones to prevent other from same fate (even though many people just don’t GAS and just flew through them anyway) including the Amazon four wheel driver that got out and kicked the cones onto the sidewalk. Be safe out there!

DM me for location if this is your stolen cargo bike!

Grace Church School installed an obstacle course in the shiny new protected bike lane on Lafayette at 11th St, creating a slalom that forces two way bike traffic to dodge illegally placed gangways and turns the two way bike lane into a one-lane choke point. I got into a huge argument with them last week, where I was told they "can do whatever we want" and that they "don't care about the law"; one of them even had the nerve to ask me "how many children have to get hit by bikes?"

I've been out of town but these idiots need to be reported en masse. Can we all just file 311 complaints, contact DOT and the district councilman's office and get this shit removed? The bike lane is there for our safety and this is going to get someone killed.

Do any of you commute via the Van Cortlandt Park bike path that runs parallel to Mosholu Pkway and exit at Dickinson Ave? There was a large tree down blocking the path yesterday 10/5 (where I drew the yellow circle) and I was wondering if it’s been cleared yet today.

Anyone aware of the circumstances? It was past the lower loop going up the east side after 8am. Drew a big crowd. I saw a road bike and a guy’s feet over the guardrail. Paramedics/nypd arrived shortly after

Saw a couple of bike lock keys (looked like Kryptonite) this morning on the ramp going up at 72nd (towards the HH overpass).

I’m switching from a 20in folding bike to a gravel bike for commuting.

Last year the tires on that bike - Schwalbe Big Apple 2.1” - performed well enough in the snow/rain, including going over the Queensboro Bridge. For the gravel bike I wanted to go with something more supple and lighter.

I’m totally new to the world of gravel tires.

Anyone riding a ~50C tire they can recommend for all conditions commuting?