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- Running from the ferry to grab a free bike from Bike and Bike and Roll
Wowzers! Bike and Roll™, this year’s sponsor of Free Bike Fridays, put more than 900 people on bikes for FREE this past Friday! This was our busiest Friday yet. Every Friday between June 5 and October 9, visitors can borrow a bike for free, for up to one hour. After the first hour, regular rental rates apply. More than 200 bikes are available for the program this year- including kids’ bikes with training wheels and baby seats and carriers.
Some people take their free bikes pretty seriously, finding the right position on the ferry and sprinting from the dock down Carder Road to be the first in line for a free bike. It’s no running of the bulls, but the “running of the bikes” became become a regular spectacle of last year’s Free Bike Fridays. This year, with 200 bikes available, there’s no need to run for your bike.
Still, we’ve come up with a new strategy. We’re calling it the “Water Taxi Beach wait.” If you stop at the new Water Taxi Beach for an ice cream before you go for your bike, you’ll avoid the crowd of people who make a bee-line for the bikes. . .
Filed under: Bikes, Weekend Report | Tagged: Bike and Roll, Bikes, Free Bike Friday, governors island, Water Taxi Beach
[...] was also host the a bunch of other visitors. This group of women had a blast with their free bikes (Bike and Roll rents bikes for free for one hour every Friday!). They where in the process of traveling around checking out all of the different Creative Time [...]