johnpseudo

Hey, I came here a couple months ago asking for advice for our family (mom, dad, 6 year-old) visiting from Atlanta via Amtrak getting to our hotel at Park Ave and E 56th St with our three bikes. Thanks again for all the feedback and advice (especially u/uppernycghost, u/dogsdontdance, u/12stTales who had very helpful tips/perspective).

This may be surprising to all of you who were telling us to jump in a cab or warning us that biking through Manhattan is a death wish, but we had an absolute blast! Biking u/uppernycghost 's route of 8th Ave, 38th, 6th Ave, 56th to Park was an amazing and perfectly safe way to be introduced to the city. You all don't know how good you have it compared to any

I'm taking Amtrak with my wife and six year-old daughter from Atlanta to spend a couple weeks in Manhattan and Brooklyn before my wife and I take the Empire State Trail upstate. From what I understand, children are not allowed to ride in the roads and adults are not allowed to ride on the sidewalks. But we'll all have our bicycles, and we need to get from Penn Station to our hotel at Park Ave and E 56th St.

Our current plan is to attach my daughter's bike to mine using the FollowMe Tandem. We're all everyday bicyclists and I've been using this setup with her to get used to it, and it seems solid enough to handle fairly aggressive

This morning on my way to work I got yelled at by a driver and got called a jackass by a bystander, but you tell me. I have a ~70lb cargo bike that I use to drop my daughter off at daycare before heading into work. I was on a narrow street passing by a Starbucks drive-thru that had backed up onto the other side of the street (here). There were cars on my left and parked cars on my right when a lady driving a BMW pulled around the line coming directly at me on the wrong side of the street.

I almost always ride in the middle of the lane, especially when passing parked cars, so she couldn't immediately squeeze by, and I couldn't squeeze by her because

Do we have any homegrown garden-gurus that you follow on Twitter/Facebook/youtube/etc.? I'm looking for inspiration and reminders about what I should be doing.

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