Five boro bike tour

This Sunday was the five boro bike tour which was a bike tour through the five boros of NYC (Manhattan, Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn and Staten Island), seems pretty self-evident, huh. All in all, a 42 mile trek through the city with 42,000 of your closest friends. I met up with a friend of mine at the exit from Central Park to the tour. From their we traveled through the five boros and saw the sights. The tour started in battery Park City and finished up in Fort Wadsworth in Staten Island. Like any event this size, joining 42,000 people at the start line and getting home from the finish line can be the toughest part of the event. Especially when most of those people want to take the ferry back to Manhattan from Staten Island. here are some pictures from the day.

First of many port-a-johns set up for riders along the route. This one just north of the exit from Central Park.

After a brief trip through the Bronx, we traveled down the FDR drive towards the 59th st. bridge to get into Queens.

Rest area at Astoria Park in Queens, one of several where people replenished on Water, Snacks, and enjoyed the sunshine.

Another rest area in Brooklyn, more water, snacks, and sunshine.

Colorful costumes, headgear and unique bikes were the order for many of the riders.

A view of the Verrazano bridge from the BQE, almost finished.

This time, a view of the BQE from the Verrazano.

A view of the Verrazano from the finish at the park in Staten Island.

The long trip home on the ferry. Actually, the long wait for the short trip home is more like it.