At this time is an auspicious day. Not solely is it Nationwide Consuming Straw Day:
Nevertheless it’s additionally the day registration for the TD 5 Boro Bike Tour opens!
When Bike New York first requested Terry Barentsen and me to make a promotional video for the 2022 version of the TD 5 Boro Bike Tour, it was an obscure occasion that attracted perhaps 5 or ten riders. Since then we’ve made a video yearly and it now attracts over 30,000 riders, and it’s protected to say that Terry and I are solely answerable for that:
After all what’s true is that the primary video we made for the 2022 couldn’t carry official Tour branding as a result of I wasn’t sporting a helmet–properly, apart from this memorable scene:
That’s what you name pace personified. Simply ask this man, he’ll let you know:
Anyway, whereas I could solely be 50-75% answerable for the TD 5 Boro Bike Tour’s outstanding success, I’m grateful to Bike New York for persevering with to incorporate me in it–a lot in order that I’ll even don a helmet so as to take action:
[Amazing, that kid is bigger than me now.]
And that features for using the subway:
So in the event you’re eager about doing the trip you’d higher register now, as a result of it fills up fast.
Oh, and in the event you’re questioning how Terry will get these extremely clean using photographs, that is how:
It’s a privilege to observe him work.
Oh, and in the event you’re in search of a motorcycle upon which to dominate the trip, hopefully the brand new Trek street bike is out by then:
I’m not exaggerating after I say that this groundbreaking new bike might change the face of biking ceaselessly;
See, it’s received this notch thingy:
What does it do? Sorry, the right query is what doesn’t it do?
Certainly, preliminary analysis signifies it’s so efficient that if sufficient folks begin using these items it can alter the route of the jet stream and both repair or speed up local weather change, relying on who you ask.
And like increasingly street bikes, it received’t settle for cables and the brake hoses run by the headset:
There’s more and more little distinction between constructing a street bike and performing an endoscopy.
