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 of New York. Hitting highlights that include, the Avenue of Americas, Central Park, The Queensboro Bridge, The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, and having the unparalleled perspective of taking all of this in on two wheels. There is no ride like this in the world. And the side benefit...

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.

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 and I rarely had occasion to interact until I found myself in the command center at Fort Wadsworth at the end of that year’s Tour. Steve would invariably be seated next to longtime Tour stalwart Fred Jones, aka the Voice of God, whose jovial baritone worked like a warm breeze to ease the tension in...