Right this moment is an auspicious day. Not solely is it Nationwide Ingesting Straw Day:
However 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 secure to say that Terry and I are solely accountable for that:
In fact 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–nicely, apart from this memorable scene:
That’s what you name velocity personified. Simply ask this man, he’ll let you know:
Anyway, whereas I’ll solely be 50-75% accountable 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 driving the subway:
So if you happen to’re interested by doing the journey you’d higher register now, as a result of it fills up fast.
Oh, and if you happen to’re questioning how Terry will get these extremely clean driving photographs, that is how:
It’s a privilege to look at him work.
Oh, and if you happen to’re on the lookout for a motorcycle upon which to dominate the journey, hopefully the brand new Trek street bike is out by then:
I’m not exaggerating once I say that this groundbreaking new bike might change the face of biking perpetually;
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 individuals begin driving these items it’s going to alter the course of the jet stream and both repair or speed up local weather change, relying on who you ask.
And like increasingly more street bikes, it gained’t settle for cables and the brake hoses run via the headset:
There’s more and more little distinction between constructing a street bike and performing an endoscopy.
