After searching far and wide for a unique gravel trip destination, we are launching a new trip, and it’s what gravel dreams are made of. We are headed to the Chiricahua Mountains to discover the undiscovered in Arizona and New Mexico. If pushing your gravel limits, seeing untouched beauty, and riding somewhere not many have […]

TORONTO (June 25, 2024) – Cycling Canada and the Canadian Olympic Committee have announced the roster of Team Canada cycling athletes nominated to compete at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. The 21 athletes are: BMX Racing: Molly Simpson (Red Deer, Alta.) Mountain Bike: Isabella Holmgren (Orillia, Ont.) Gunnar Holmgren (Orillia, Ont.) Road: Olivia Baril (Rouyn-Noranda, […]

  This is the big show. This is the bucket-list ride. This is the most incredible, one-day bicycle tour of the best and brightest city in the universe. The TD Five Boro Bike Tour. Every year, 30,000+ riders take to the car-free streets of New York. Starting at Battery Park, riders venture unencumbered through all 5 Boroughs […]

Do you want to know where to get the best ice cream cone in Missoula? Are you looking for that secret fishing hole that nobody else has heard of? Does part of your family want to cruise epic backcountry gravel routes on the bike, and is the other part into hunting huckleberries and epic views […]

Article originally published on the 2017 #TDFBBT Original Rider Guide and Program. Click on the image below to download a PDF of the article and enjoy a first-person account of the origins of the world’s largest charitable bike ride.   The post The origins of the TD Five Boro Bike Tour, as told by its […]

Steve Bauman at the TD Five Boro Bike Tour   I’ve been acquainted with Steve Bauman, the father of the TD Five Boro Bike Tour, since my days with Bike New York, which began nearly a decade ago, but I’ve never really known him: I was in communications, and Steve’s forte was logistics, so he […]

The following was written for Beth Heyde in 2020   Beth Heyde, Bike New York’s former Senior Event Manager and the driving force behind our sustainability initiatives, died in November 2019 at the age of 41 from pancreatic cancer. She is survived by her husband, Jon, and their daughter, Ella. Photo by Sam Polcer.   […]

Click on the image below to download a PDF of the 2021 TD Five Boro Bike Tour Official Ride Guide and Program, which has essential information for riders, news from Bike New York, and more.   TDFBBT 2021 Program           The post 2021 #TDFBBT Official Ride Guide and Program appeared first on […]

Click on the image below to download a PDF of the 2022 TD Five Boro Bike Tour Official Ride Guide and Program, which has essential information for riders, news from Bike New York, and more.             The post 2022 #TDFBBT Official Ride Guide and Program appeared first on Bike New York.

Here at Bike New York, we’re providing free bicycles to New York City asylum seekers thanks to a partnership with the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs (MOIA), the New York City Department of Transportation (DOT), the New York City Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS), Unlimited Biking, Trek Bicycles, and Kryptonite. This program aims to […]

New York, NY – Bike New York, a leading non-profit organization focused on empowering New Yorkers and their communities through biking, is pleased to announce the appointment of Bev Lacy as its new Chief Development Officer. Bev is a highly accomplished development professional with an extensive track record of success in raising funds for non-profit […]

  Biking has a rich and diverse history that includes the contributions of many talented Black athletes and enthusiasts. From Major Taylor, the first Black world champion cyclist, to present-day Black biking groups and current cyclists, Black cycling culture is a vibrant and thriving community that deserves recognition and celebration. Let’s take a look at […]

  To kick off Black History Month, we want to highlight the rich legacy of Black cycling in New York City and remind you that we’re riding through time and honoring Black biking history with our Black History Month Bike Ride on Saturday, February 25.  As we commemorate Black History Month, let us acknowledge and […]

Nové Město na Moravě, Czech Republic (May 15, 2021) – After a gold medal finish last weekend at the opening round of the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup, Norco Factory Team’s Carter Woods once again proved to be the strongest rider in the men’s U23 field, winning another gold in Nové Město na Moravě, Czech […]

Ottawa, ON (March 2, 2020) – Cycling Canada wishes to express its support of the courageous statement given this week by Canadian athlete Maggie Coles-Lyster regarding abuse when competing for the Lares-Waowdeals Women Cycling Team, now known as Doltcini-Van Eyck Sport. The UCI has opened a formal investigation into the Doltcini-Van Eyck Sport women’s team […]

Milton, ON (January 25, 2020) – Canada started off the Tissot UCI Track Cycling World Cup in Milton with a bang, winning medals in all three events it entered, including a gold medal in the women’s Team Sprint. Canadian riders also won bronze medals in both the women’s and men’s Team Pursuits, making this one […]

Gravel. Even the word sounds uncomfortable. At odds to my road biking world, the usual black tarmac lines swapped for the stark white trails. It’s riding, but not as we know it…

A hill climb podium position and the power of small victories. It’s all relative, right?

If a cycling God exists, they would live at the summit of Lago del Narèt. It’s not the longest, not the highest, not even the steepest. This climb needs no such gimmicks. It has beauty.

I can’t remember when I stopped counting. I know not what compels me to ride all day, traversing distances some people think twice about when driving. Anything less than 100 miles is now a short ride. When did that happen?

Ostend, Belgium (May 20, 2019) – Canada added three road race medals on the weekend to the four it had already won in the time trial events at Round 2 of the UCI Para-cycling Road World Cup in Ostend, Belgium. Shelley Gautier took her second silver medal in the women’s T1 division, while Joey Desjardins (men’s […]

Mistakes. We all make them. For some the consequences are greater than others. Pedestrians, cyclists, drivers. We share one inescapable trait. We’re all human.

Ottawa, ON– Between December 23rd and January 1st, twelve athletes in the Elite, Under-23 and Junior categories went to Belgium to compete in five races in preparation for the Cyclo-cross World Championships to be held in Bogense, Denmark at the end of January. Among the highlights were Elite woman Jenn Jackson finishing tenth at the […]

Ottawa, ON (January 11, 2019) – Cycling Canada has selected a team of 16 athletes to represent Canada at the fifth round of the Track World Cup, to take place in Cambridge, New Zealand on January 18-20. Nine riders will compete on the following weekend in Hong Kong, China, at the final round of the World […]

Cambridge, NZ – Team Canada had a strong start to the fifth round of the Tissot UCI Track Cycling World Cup on Friday in Cambridge, New Zealand, winning silver medals in both the men’s and women’s Team Pursuit. The men set a new national record for the fourth time this World Cup season with a time […]