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June 5th: Tour de Brooklyn begins at Prospect Heights HS — Brooklynian

June 5th: Tour de Brooklyn begins at Prospect Heights HS

whynot_31
whynot_31
edited November -1 in Listings

Slackers, it is time to exercise!

The 7th annual Tour de Brooklyn is an exciting, 18-mile family-friendly bike tour. The tour will start and end at Prospect Heights High School, with a brief rest stop at Canarsie Pier. The NYPD will escort the tour as a rolling parade. Riders of all ages and abilities are welcome to participate.

http://tourdebrooklyn.org/about_the_ride

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  • idlewild
    idlewild

    Any maps of the tour? I looked around on their website and couldn't find anything. I gather the route will be using the Belt Parkway Promenade at the end, considering it's winding up at Canarsie Pier?

  • whynot_31
    whynot_31

    A little sleuthing found a DOT "Tour De Brooklyn Construction Embargo"

    AKA: Streets you can't do construction on this weekend because there will be a massive bike ride :)

    They even provided a map:

    http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/tour_de_brooklyn_embargo_map.pdf

  • idlewild
    idlewild

    Thanks! A very interesting route. It seems you get most of the diversity on this one.

  • toadette
    toadette

    Exactly how "family friendly" (i.e., not hard) is this ride? I want to go for it, the man isn't convinced. We've really just been doing a few 3-4 mile rides. The rides are fairly easy for us, though the uphill from 2nd to 5th ave isn't fun. I can survive an hour-long spinning class, for what little that might matter. Think we'll be ok to go on it?

  • whynot_31
    whynot_31

    yes

  • toadette
    toadette

    Thanks. About how long does the whole ride take from start to finish usually? (the bf has somewhere to be that afternoon)

  • whynot_31
    whynot_31

    a slacker could easily finish a 18 mile ride in 3 hours.

  • toadette
    toadette

    Ok, didn't know how much they held up the pace to keep everyone together, keep folks from getting run over, or whatever. Plus when I went to register the site said "Duration: 6 hours, 0 minutes" which made me wtf. Thanks again. Now let's hope for no rain~

  • booklaw
    booklaw

    I did that ride twice. The first time was great fun. The second time, the cops who were leading the ride (in their squad cars) drove so slowly that all of the bike riders were forced to clump together very tightly. I actually injured myself because I couldn't move my bike quickly enough to stay upright. I could have walked or even crawled faster than we were allowed to ride. If they do that again, the 18 mile ride actually could take 6 hours.

    I will not do that ride again because of my prior experience.

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