It’s all the highlights of my many bike trips to Montauk condensed into a weekend that you can experience. Three years ago I decided to put all of this knowledge into the first bike tour we ever offered at Gotham Bicycle Tours: Our Montauk and Eastern Long Island bike tour. I discovered how to use the trains effectively to do different kinds of rides. Since that first ride, I have ridden to Montauk many times. I had caught a huge prize of my own…riding to Montauk! I wondered if his feeling of accomplishment was similar to mine. One guy was holding a huge fish he had just caught. I went down to the rocky beach below the lighthouse and I saw about a dozen fisherman casting their lines out into the surf. And when I saw that lighthouse at the end of the ride it blew me away. Now I was ready to go there on my own…on a bike!īiking to Montauk exceeded my expectations. But I couldn’t wait! I had only been to Montauk as a kid with my parents. I spent a ton of time trying to figure out what roads to ride, how to do this, etc. The ride would be about 115 miles long…if I didn’t get lost. I remember going to the Hagstrom Map Store on 43rd Street and 6th Avenue to buy all the maps I would need to plan my journey. Back then, you couldn’t bring your bike on the LIRR Montauk branch before Labor Day. I wanted to do this ride one-way…and take the LIRR back home when I was done.

I had started a new job…and I decided to train all summer to meet this goal. Have you ever wanted to do that one “big ride” to challenge yourself? Biking to Montauk from my apartment in Brooklyn was the first time I had ever dared to ride more than 100 miles in one day.

Hagstrom hudson street atlas 2018