Cycle the scenic Harrisburg/Hershey/Grantville area of Central PA.
Friday to Sunday, May 16-18, 2025
Pickup May 16 8AM Citibike station, 11th avenue, between 42nd & 41st Street.

The 5BBC Weekday Spring Training Series consists of 8 weekly rides that start at 25 miles at 12 mph and progressively increase to 50 miles at 14 mph.

W-STS Mario is a 45-mile ride that meets 9:00 in Van Cortlandt Park at the big circle just south of the subway station.

A 26-mile moderate paced ride to savor the food of Yunnan province.

We‘re going to head to Sunset Park to enjoy the food of Yun Nan Flavour Garden on this 26-mile ride.

Yun Nan Flavour Garden features rice noodles (in soup or separately), seaweed salad, cold noodles with chicken, and dumplings, among other delicious dishes. Their specialty dish is "Crossing the Bridge" noodles. While we have many fine bridges here in the five boroughs, in this case the name refers to a bridge in Yunnan province in southwestern China. And of course, there‘s a story behind that name, which you‘ll learn about on the ride. Since this ride is entirely in Kings County, a/k/a Brooklyn, we won‘t be crossing any famous suspension bridges, but may be crossing a couple little bridges.

Here are some reviews, if you want to read more. Though the reviews are several years old, recent visits confirm that the food is still excellent.

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/29/dining/hungry-city-yun-nan-flavour-garden-in-sunset-park-brooklyn.html
https://nymag.com/listings/restaurant/yun-nan-flavour-garden/
https://www.timeout.com/newyork/restaurants/yun-nan-flavour-garden
Menu: https://www.zmenu.com/yun-nan-flavor-garden-brooklyn-online-menu/

Mileage = 30

We’ll be fighting off any lingering winter blues with a ride through Westchester. We will start at the Larchmont train station before meandering on mostly low-traffic roads north to the Westchester Airport, where we can pretend we are going somewhere warmer. From the airport, we will be looping back south past Purchase Community College. Near mile 24, we will find our usual pizza stop for lunch. After lunch, we will find our way back to the Larchmont train station

Cycle the scenic Harrisburg/Hershey/Grantville area of Central PA.
Friday to Sunday, May 16-18, 2025
Pickup May 16 8AM Citibike station, 11th avenue, between 42nd & 41st Street.

Mileage = 27
Donuts and Asian pastries on our South Brooklyn adventure . Get your sugar on at some of Brooklyn‘s best donut shops and bakeries . Burn those calories with a scenic ride around Brooklyn harbor and our famous Coney Island before heading into beautiful Sunset Park - highest point in Brooklyn , you will see why

Mileage = 46

Ride on the car-free Bronx River Parkway at a happy-face pace with an assist from Metro North.

Mileage = 14

Mileage = 35

We go in and out of Port Chester Metro North Station over the Kensico Dam and beyond !!
Mileage = 48

New York Bridge and Three Boro Adventure
Mileage = 35

* Moderate pace ride.
* About 25 miles.
* Starts and ends in Grand Army Plaza.

Ideal for new members, as well as Club vets.

Join us for a ride from Grand Army Plaza, through East River parks in Brooklyn and Queens, and through Astoria, Woodside and Jackson Heights, until we arrive at our destination: a 2-block section of Woodside Avenue in Elmhurst with restaurants featuring the food of the Isan region (also spelled Esan and Isaan) of northeast Thailand.

There are more than a half dozen restaurants serving this regional Thai food on these blocks, including Ayada, Hug Esan, Khao Kang, and Zaab Zaab, and several have received favorable media reviews. (Zaab Zaab is in the Times’ 100 best restaurants in 2024). Since there are so many restaurants on these blocks, riders can eat at the restaurant of their choice. Then we will reconvene and resume our ride after an hour.

We will be riding mostly greenways, but there will be a few busy streets, so please be comfortable riding them. The ride will be Moderate in the front and will accommodate Happy Face riders in the rear. Please be able to keep at least 10 MPH in the back.

Mileage = 38

Mileage = 36

This fun ride to Nyack eliminates most of the climbs!

How do we do this? By starting on the Manhattan side of the GWB and making our way north on suburban roads with minor inclines. After a Greek lunch at Kavo’s Grill in Nyack (https://www.kavosgrillnyack.com/Default.aspx), we will ride over the Tappan Zee/Cuomo Bridge and go through Tarrytown, Irvington, Dobbs Ferry, and Hastings on Hudson before ending the ride in Yonkers, where we will take Metro North back to Grand Central.

Mileage = 51

Long Island is replete with neighborhood pizzerias. Some good, some not so good, and some excellent. The club has rides where a pizzeria is just the lunch stop or the pizzeria(s) is/are the whole reason for the ride. A few of the club favorites are Knapp Street Pizza and L & B Spumoni Gardens in Brooklyn, and Grace Pizza and New Park Pizza in Queens.

The ride will start and end in Kew Gardens, Queens. We need to put in significant miles to burn off the pizza calories we will consume! The first stop on this ride is Pizzeria G in Garden City, N.Y., Nassau, at the intersection of 7th Street and Franklin Avenue. After our first stop, we will ride north to reach the second pizzeria, Vincent‘s Pizzeria, in Williston Park, N.Y., Nassau, at the intersection of I.U. Willets Road and Willis Avenue. After our meal at Vincent‘s Pizzeria, we will take I.U. Willets Road, Union Turnpike, 75th Avenue, and various side streets back to our starting point in Kew Gardens, Queens.

A 33-mile ride to the Rockaways at a moderate-lite pace to look for endangered species Piping Plovers and other shore birds.

Join us on a ride to the Rockaways, where we will meet with a Brooklyn Bird Club Walk Leader (and 5BBC member) to look for shore birds who summer on the beach. Among the species we might see are Least Terns, Piping Plovers, American Oyster Catchers, and Black Skimmers. We will loop by riding over the Marine Park Bridge and returning on the Crossbay Bridge.

Piping Plovers are an endangered species. Because of the impact of global warming and encroaching development on nesting areas, there are only about 8000 Piping Plovers left on earth. Some (fewer than 100) spend their summers here in New York City. They will be in the Rockaways in late spring and will stay there until they migrate south in the fall.

When we pause on our ride, we will do a short walk to the beach. We will learn about migration and nesting, how habitat degradation affects breeding, and how volunteer groups and government agencies such as the National Park Service work to protect habitat. We will look for nesting areas of young plovers and their parents. We will bring binoculars to share to enable us to observe the birds from a safe distance. We also encourage riders to bring binoculars (not mandatory).

Will we see plovers this year? We are scheduling the ride to take place when the tide is not too high and the chicks are young so their parents won‘t wander too far from their nests, but there are no guarantees. We missed them in 2021 and 2022, but saw some in 2023 and 2024. We should see other species of shore birds even if we don‘t see any plovers. While walking along the ocean, you may forget that you are within the city limits of one of the largest cities in the world.

Mileage = 25
Get your Greek on at Zorba‘s In AStoria Queens . Picturesque ride along the waterfront of Queens with beautiful views of Manhattan before we make our way to the best Greek food in Queens !

Hoboken (Hobocan Hackingh)
Lenape name meaning "land of the tobacco pipe"
Mileage = 40

Do you want to take a trip back in time when hamburger stands like this were scattered throughout the United States? Let‘s take a trip to All American Burger. We‘ll start at the Mineola LIRR station and travel through the towns of Garden City, Uniondale, East Meadow, North Bellmore, Wantagh, and Seaford until we reach our destination in Massapequa. On our way back, we‘ll bike back on the Bethpage Bikeway through the Massapequa Perserve up to North Massapequa where we‘ll head west through Levittown, Salisbury, Uniondale, and Garden City back to the Mineola LIRR Station. We meet at the Mineola LIRR train station on the south side of the station at Station Road and 4th Avenue. There are two LIRR trains which arrive a little before 9:30 a.m. One train arrives at 9:01 a.m. and the other at 9:17 a.m. Mileage = 37

In observance of Juneteenth, we‘ll ride through Queens to visit places honoring African Americans. Some are well known and others were ordinary citizens. Mileage = 28

The 5BBC Weekday Spring Training Series consists of 8 weekly rides that start at 25 miles at 12 mph and progressively increase to 50 miles at 14 mph.

W-STS Blauvelt is a 49-mile ride that utilizes the 50-mile route of NYCC Escape New York. Blauvelt meets 9:00 at Dinosaur Playground.

Summertime fun

Mileage = 25
Beach Bum fun on a Summer Sunday. It‘s Summertime officially, and that means it‘s Beach Bum time! Join us as we kick off beach season with a ride to Manhattan Beach, nestled away in the wee corner of Brooklyn. We will hang out a bit, eat a picnic lunch, and bring your bathing suit and a towel for all you beach bums who want a dip. No dippin? Hang out with your fellow riders in the picnic area and enjoy the view of the bay. Members get full access to rides, discounts, and more. Join the club and enjoy the ride!

This will be an urban adventure by meandering around Central Queens and passing by or stopping at a prime number of parks (7) to enjoy the scenery. Distance = 32 miles.

Join us as we ride our Brooklyn Perimeter. We will swing through everyone‘s favorite boro on many greenways and through many different neighborhoods as we go round and round. Did you know Brooklyn would be America‘s fourth-largest city, if indeed it were a city? Come join us on this 55-mile adventure.

Come join the fun circling NYC‘s most diverse borough. The ride will begin and end in Long Island City, Queens, near Hunters Point South Park. The ride will be just under 52 miles long, and we will move at a quick pace given the distance we have to cover.

Social Saturday Loop - Japanese Style
Everything Japanese ! Join us on a loop into New Jersey via the new GW bike path where we will make our way to Mitsuwa and enjoy a lovely lunch over looking the Manhattan skyline . Enjoy a ferry ride home soaking in the sun and our beautiful skyline

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