Okay, so, Tour de Brooklyn.
Jun. 4th, 2006 02:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwyn18 miles of bike riding through parts of Brooklyn that remind me of why some people are scared of Jersey City, with a couple hundred, maybe a thousand or so, other riders- all packed together so closely by the ride marshals that we had to dismount and walk too many times to count. And traveling so slowly that there were in-line skaters in the pack keeping up with us.
There were cobblestone stretches. There were areas with potholes and big missing bits of street.
There were a lot of people honking at other people because they couldn't see that traffic was stopped to let the bikes through. There were no turn sheets that I ever got, and there were no mile markers, and the rest stop was more than halfway along the route.
Still, I got to see where they make Manhattan Special coffee soda, and I met interesting people, so that's cool. And I got to ride over the Brooklyn Bridge to get there, which was really cool and I wish I had taken pictures. Alas, alack, etc. And I got a T-shirt for $6.
Verdict: Unless it sounds like they improved the organization next time, I'm not gonna do next year's TdB. I'll have to ask around and see who's done the Tour de Bronx and see if they're any better before I even consider registering.
There were cobblestone stretches. There were areas with potholes and big missing bits of street.
There were a lot of people honking at other people because they couldn't see that traffic was stopped to let the bikes through. There were no turn sheets that I ever got, and there were no mile markers, and the rest stop was more than halfway along the route.
Still, I got to see where they make Manhattan Special coffee soda, and I met interesting people, so that's cool. And I got to ride over the Brooklyn Bridge to get there, which was really cool and I wish I had taken pictures. Alas, alack, etc. And I got a T-shirt for $6.
Verdict: Unless it sounds like they improved the organization next time, I'm not gonna do next year's TdB. I'll have to ask around and see who's done the Tour de Bronx and see if they're any better before I even consider registering.
