[rain date] Beach Bike Ride: Bay Ridge to Jacob Riis

It’s time to ride our bikes to the beach. Just as Robert Moses intended.

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Bring: a bike lock, water, sunscreen, beach towel, beach snacks

Challenge rating: medium-easy.

• Overall trip distance: 11 miles each way
• Distance on greenway / protected bike lanes / low-traffic roads: 9 miles each way
• Distance on sub-standard or non-existent bicycle infrastructure: 2 miles each way
• Pace: average around 10 miles per hour (faster on the greenways, slower on streets)
• Terrain: flat, except for bridges over Jamaica Bay and its inlets

Meet up at: the cannon at Bay Ridge’s Cannonball (John Paul Jones) Park. (If the park is still closed for the pathway reconstruction project, we’ll meet on the sidewalk next to the cannon.)

Want to meet us along the way? If you want to join the ride as it passes Bath Beach, Gravesend, Coney Island, Brighton Beach, or Sheepshead Bay, email us at contact@bikesbk.org and let us know!