The Best Route to the Beach
it's been hot, hot, hot- bike your sweaty bod to the beach
Hey, Rach Bikes NYC readers!
It's summertime, and there is no better place to ride your bike on a hot day than the beach! For me, the joy of the beach bike ride is more about the ride to the beach than it is about the beach itself. Either way, the goal is a relaxing getaway that leaves you refreshed instead of frazzled. With the Fourth of July weekend coming up, there are three days to fill with a beach biking adventure! High of 80 degrees on Sunday and Monday, I'll take it! Not sure how to get there? Follow The Best Route to the Beach for all the tips. Inspiration for this route was derived from Google maps terrible directions that suggested taking Pennsylvania Avenue down to the greenway entrance. Unless your idea of fun is battling multi-lane traffic, I do not recommend it! Check out this route for a much less stressful experience for ocean views.
The Best Route to the Beach is a 13-mile intermediate route that avoids multi-lanes roads, ensuring a relaxing, meandering ride to the beach. The route starts in Maria Hernandez Park and ends at Jacob Riis Beach via the Jamaica Bay Greenway. The Jamaica Bay Greenway is a New York City gem, and riding on it is by far one of my favorite summer activities. Biking on the greenway during the peak of summer, I always feel transported to a small coastal beach town. The leaves and wildflowers in full bloom on the path create an experience unmatched in NYC. (It usually helps if you ignore the Belt Parkway to your left) Pack up that pannier with a beach towel and some sunscreen, because it's time to bike to the beach!
Follow this link to read more, the route map, my tips on how to avoid security as you bike through the Evergreen cemetery, and recs on my favorite place for an egg sandwich along the route.
Rach Bikes Match: Do you have a bike (or bike part) that you want to sell? Do you need a bike and have been looking in all the wrong places? I’ve been hooking friends up with each other’s bikes for a while now, and I’d love to take it to a larger scale. Email me a picture and description of your bike and I’ll post it in the next newsletter, or email a description and size of the bike of your dreams and I’ll post that as well. Hopefully, we can find some good bike matches!
Match Opportunity: A reader, Danielle, is looking for a touring, gravel, or cyclocross bike with drop bars, road geometry, or disc brakes that will fit someone 5’2”. Have a bike matching this description you want to offload? Email me!
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