CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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Leave the city behind and spend the day on roads with texture. A 331 km loop that starts and ends near Staten Island, about 5 h 45 of riding. It goes by way of near Fair Haven, Scenic stretch near Rosedale, in Franklin Square and East Elmhurst.
Next is Food stop near Fair Haven.
Food stop near Fair Haven is where this day stops to eat. Next is Scenic stretch near Rosedale.
A break here. Next is High point in Franklin Square.
Somewhere to get off the bike, about 160 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hudson to Rhinebeck Food Ride checkpoint 8.
The planes give it away. East Elmhurst sits right beside LaGuardia Airport in northern Queens, and jets come in low over the rooftops every couple of minutes, their wheels down, as they line up for the runways that jut out into Flushing Bay. It is a neighbourhood of brick row houses, small gardens and churches, historically one of the main centres of Black middle-class life in Queens, and it has a strong sense of community despite the noise.
Read the complete Near East Elmhurst write-up.
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Back at Hudson to Rhinebeck Food Ride checkpoint 8. That is the ride. Next is New York / Hudson Valley rides return.
Rockland County is the bit of New York State that feels like New Jersey and the Hudson Valley at the same time: suburban towns like Nanuet, West Nyack and Blauvelt, with shopping centres and highways, and then suddenly steep wooded ridges, cliffs above the river and old villages with church spires. Blauvelt and West Nyack sit in the middle of it, a few kilometres from the Hudson.
Read the complete Near Blauvelt, on the way back write-up.
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New York / Hudson Valley rides return comes up about 233 km into the recorded legs. Next is Photo stop in North Haledon.
A break here. Next is Back to Hudson to.
Staten Island is the odd one out in New York City, and that is exactly why it makes a good place to end a long ride. It is the least dense of the five boroughs, tied to the rest of the city by the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge to Brooklyn, the free Staten Island Ferry to Manhattan, and three bridges west to New Jersey. Riders returning from the Hudson Valley often arrive by the New Jersey side, crossing the Goethals or the Bayonne Bridge, whose arch was raised in the 2010s to let bigger ships pass underneath.
Read the complete Hudson to write-up.
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Back at Back to Hudson to. That is the ride.
Food stop near Fair Haven → Scenic stretch near Rosedale is the logistics leg. Watch junctions, villages and speed changes, then let the roadbook do its job: move you out of the clutter without spending your best attention too early.
Scenic stretch near Rosedale → High point in Franklin Square is the reward section in New York. Look through the bends, use legal pull-offs for photos and keep a little margin for tractors, cyclists and damp shade. The best ride here is smooth, not noisy.
High point in Franklin Square → Near East Elmhurst rides best with patience. Coastal roads change character with wind and visitors; keep overtakes boring and take the photo from a proper stop.
Photo stop in North Haledon → Back to Hudson to can flow quickly, but only if you keep village limits and junction sightlines sacred. Fast connectors are where rides get untidy when fatigue creeps in.