This is post #718 of Midlife Cycling.
That number just happens to be the Area Code of Queens, where I have lived for a decade.
So I thought it appropriate to make this post an homage to cycling in the Borough of Homes.
Here's an image from the Queens stretch of the Five Borough Bike Tour, which passes just a few blocks from my apartment:
Of course, I can't write a post like this without including an image from Kissena Velodrome, the "Track of Dreams".
And, pardon me if this seems immodest, but I simply had to include an image from one of my early posts:
And, finally, no Midlife Cycling post about cycling in the 718 area code would be complete without a photo in Socrates Sculpture Park--directly across the East River from Roosevelt Island and Manhattan's Upper East Side--taken by none other than Velouria (of Lovely Bicycle fame), who inspired me to start this blog in the first place:
That number just happens to be the Area Code of Queens, where I have lived for a decade.
So I thought it appropriate to make this post an homage to cycling in the Borough of Homes.
Here's an image from the Queens stretch of the Five Borough Bike Tour, which passes just a few blocks from my apartment:
Of course, I can't write a post like this without including an image from Kissena Velodrome, the "Track of Dreams".
And, pardon me if this seems immodest, but I simply had to include an image from one of my early posts:
And, finally, no Midlife Cycling post about cycling in the 718 area code would be complete without a photo in Socrates Sculpture Park--directly across the East River from Roosevelt Island and Manhattan's Upper East Side--taken by none other than Velouria (of Lovely Bicycle fame), who inspired me to start this blog in the first place:
