Bike Rides On The Brooklyn Bridge
Sharing a fun NYC adventure today: riding bikes across the Brooklyn Bridge! Read all near my ups as well as downs (pun intended) from the trip below!
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The Fri earlier Memorial Day, Andrew as well as I had a one-half solar daytime at move as well as hence nosotros decided to get got payoff of the prissy weather condition as well as banking corporation jibe something off my NYC bucket list: ride bikes across the Brooklyn Bridge.
Our friends at Martone Cycling hooked us upward amongst 2 genuinely cool dark-green bikes for the weekend as well as nosotros were off! We got SO MANY compliments on these bikes it was unreal. People would genuinely halt to nation something. How could you lot not? These are the most fashionable bikes I've e'er had a conduct a opportunity to ride! (This is the same society that makes the Lilly bikes!)
Riding through the metropolis was a lot of fun as well as super tardily -- all pretty flat, a ton of bike paths as well as perfect weather. It wasn't until nosotros striking the distich when things starting getting difficult.
First off, in that location were as well as hence many people inwards the walking lane AND inwards the bike lane. It was highly frustrating. Then in that location was that whole steep incline (like all bridges) that my trunk as well as calves weren't create for. Riding upward the distich was really hard -- similar harder than I was expecting. I was sweating bullets as well as nosotros had to chill at the top for a chip to select grip of our breaths.
The means downward (minus the people who get got nil abide by for bikers) was dandy -- super tardily as well as genuinely fun! Not to cry the views were killer :) Once off the bridge, nosotros made our means to DUMBO (down nether the manhattan distich overpass) to hang out.
DUMBO has to endure ane of my favorite parts of the city. It's the coolest neighborhood! We flora a location inwards the common past times the H2O to relax as well as lay inwards the grass. After near an hr of simply hanging out, nosotros decided to ride unopen to a piddling more. We went over to Jane's Carousel (took these photos), picked upward Luke's Lobster as well as ate on a bench past times the H2O as nosotros watched the sunset.
It was the perfect solar daytime inwards the metropolis as well as spell we'll never ride over the distich again, nosotros both agreed that we'll get got to larn dorsum soon. Thankfully in that location is a piddling two-minute ferry that's that volition get got you lot correct across the H2O into downtown.
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