Additional to yesterday’s submit, various you commented that I might have used the Campagnolo derailleur by operating a brief size of cable after which fine-tuning it with the barrel adjuster:
So thanks for the recommendation, however WHERE THE HELL WERE YOU ALL WHEN I NEEDED YOU?
Shifting on, whereas I’ve usually been commuting by prepare lately, yesterday’s climate compelled me to journey the A. Homer Hilsen Categorical as a substitute:
There have been some adjustments since I final commuted usually by bike. For instance, the bike path on the Henry Hudson Bridge has been upgraded, which improves the primary leg of the journey by roughly a thousand %:
Mainly, this enables me to chop out virtually all of the chaotic Bronx and Higher Manhattan avenue driving and takes me proper from my neighborhood to the Henry Hudson Greenway.
Sadly, one other change is that the Henry Hudson Greenway is closed from W. a hundred and twenty fifth Road right down to W. a hundredth Road:
This required me to climb all the way in which as much as Grant’s Tomb:
Grant’s Tomb is known as a result of somebody’s buried there, although I can by no means bear in mind who. Additionally, when you’re a New York Metropolis bike owner, it’s equally if no more well-known for being the venue for the Grant’s Tomb Criterium. Right here’s the Milwaukee at Grant’s Tomb when my son raced it there a number of years again:
I used to be aggravated that the detour was forcing me go away the greenway and do battle with site visitors, however once I acquired to Riverside Drive I used to be stunned to find there was no site visitors:
So have been the smuggies proper in spite of everything? Is that this congestion pricing at work? Might or not it’s that between all of the outsiders who don’t wish to pay the toll and the locals who received’t go away their parking areas until you place a gun to their heads, no one’s driving and one thing resembling order has been imparted upon the streets of Manhattan?
I dunno, however Decrease Manhattan was additionally noticeably calmer than it was the final time I commuted to Brooklyn by bike:
That bike lane was all the time blocked by site visitors, and now there was no site visitors.
Eerie.
I imply it’s not like there weren’t any vehicles, however the next proportion of them have been hanging off of hooks:
See?
And sure, I regarded up the plate:
Holy crap! 23 tickets in 2025 alone and we’re not even midway by means of March?!? That’s one ticket each three days:
Properly accomplished.
Returning residence that night I had a head begin on dusk due to the time change:
However by the point I reached the greenway the solar was retreating behind New Jersey:
And as I drew nearer to residence darkness fell and it was simply me and the eerie phosphorescent glow of the odd e-bike:
As for me, I used to be geared up each to see:
And to be seen:
For I do know that within the span of about an hour driving the size of Manhattan at dusk takes you from this…
…to this:
The Henry Hudson Bridge bike path entrance on the Manhattan aspect is so distant that it feels virtually illicit, and after carrying the Homer throughout the footbridge over the railroad tracks and climbing that steep, darkish path by means of the woods I used to be horrified to seek out that the trail was closed:
Till I remembered that was the doorway to the outdated path and that the brand new one was open for enterprise:
In all it was an pleasurable commute, however at a t20-to-40-ish minute premium over the prepare every approach it’s not one I can all the time afford.
(And no, I’m not getting an e-bike.)
