It was a bear of a climb.
A local cyclist hiked Bear Mountain last weekend – on a 45-pound city bike.
According to fitness tracking app Strawa, 19-year-old James Huang climbed a mountain and burned 3,882 calories. “I was completely spent,” he said. “It just kept going.” You don’t get such hills in new york [City]”
Huang – who lives in the Upper East Side with her parents while studying industrial engineering at the University of Southern California from afar – said she needs training and needs for a triathlon Some even He saves for a proper road bike when to ride.
“I’ll probably get a pretty good one,” he said. He is waiting for a bike that will be less than half the weight of a city bike with better weight of city aircraft and there is no such thing as a power-tripping dynamo, which powers the lights of city bikes.
Huang started his May 2 journey at First Avenue / 78th Street City Bike Station, which is on the USA Route 9W and over the mountain over the George Washington Bridge.
(Altitude 1,289 ft). The climb gave him a time of 35 minutes and 11 seconds.
After getting down, he crossed the Bare Mountain Bridge, rode the Garrison Metro-North station, and caught the train back to the city. Total Cycle Distance: 62.3 mi.
He said he received more than a few comments on the ride – mostly favorable. Some were “sarcastic”, he said, at the behest of, “I didn’t know they were here.”
He said that his rental time was 5 hours 48 minutes, for which he was charged $ 35.23. (City bike Rent contract Does not include a provision against leaving the city limits.)
“I had a few dollars in Lyft credits. It would have been more expensive, but I am a ‘bike angel’,” said Huang, referring to a promotion through which rider earns credits for “rebalancing” bikes , Transfer them from stations with multiple bikes with few people.
The native New Yorker and graduate of Stuyvesant High School said he too was impressed with the greenery outside Gotham.
“I personally haven’t been out of town forever, because of COVID,” he said. “I didn’t know that upstairs was so close.”
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