Actually, that's not what the metal plates are for in NYC. The metal plates w/ asphalt around them are temporary covers for road service work that occurs over long periods. Telephone, fiber, water, electrical and sewer work often takes several days to months depending on the extent of the work and in many cases, there are delays or breaks in the work, during which, the road is made usable with the metal sheets. Potholes, on the other hand, are filled with asphalt between road repavings.
in the past, i searched RUclips for cycling in Death Valley and Francis Cade's "Project USA" series showed up in the results; i watched the entire series because i live in California and wanted to see some familiar sites; have been a subscriber since then - enjoy your videos.
If you haven't already, checkout the Brooklyn Greenway and the Manhattan Waterfront Greenway. The Brooklyn Greenway is 26 miles and leads from Greenpoint all the way down to Howard Beach, connecting a lot of the parks in Brooklyn on the East River and the Lower Bay. The Manhattan Waterfront Greenway is 31 miles and is a bike loop around the entire island of Manhattan. Both have websites and maps showing you the type of bike paths used and where there's construction on your ride. Love the videos! Hope to catch you riding around the city sometime soon!
In New Orleans where I live they wait until the potholes start damaging cars, then they add cones or construction barrels. Once several cones have been flattened, they might fill it with gravel or rocks. After a couple years, the gravel should be compacted enough to add asphalt, but they usually just do another cone. When the pothole has reached the age of maturity (3 or 4) it gets patched with asphalt that will break and sink in a couple months. People literally have birthday parties and put up signs for potholes. There was one that even got to the point of having a 7ft tall tree in it and it turned an intersection into a traffic circle by accident. So I’d take metal plates all day.
Loved having you and Daisy here. You both showed me why they rate NYC one of the best cities for bicycles. Hope you haven't lost your hearing because of all the sirens. Thanks for taking us along. Safe travels back home! Cheers!
The metal covers are temporary. Usually placed to cover construction that will need access again soon. Once all the work is done it will be filled in and patched properly.
the 'metal sheet' solution is quite normal in Rio as well. they even glue the ends in with a little asphalt and never bother to actually fix it for months on end!
I've done the Five Boro Bike Tour many times during which the Central Park one-way-only rules are suspended to allow all 32,000 riders to travel north into the Bronx.
Road plates are a thing here in Australia. Usually it's for longer term work that can't be blocked off to traffic for 24 hours a day, so it's plated while no work is happening.
Awesome vid and series. But those metal plates are temporary covers for when people come at night and work on it! They work during the night and then cover it up again in the morning.
Lived in Manhattan for a summer years ago and what impressed me was the amount of change and time stops while everything changes around you…. Nice city ridding it was the best, and great work.. thanks
Loved seeing your view of our city. Not sure if you tried it but across the GW (George Washington Bridge), up Rt. 9...all the way to (up?) Bear Mountain is a great ride.
In Minnesota there was a time where some parts of a bike and pedestrian trail were covered in metal slabs like that. Eventually they were taken off but there was still massive cracks that are basically just holes so I'm guessing someone binned it riding over one and they were just removed and forgotten instead of being rushed to fix it.
I have been looking at the West cycle path on google maps, thanks for showing. It looks absolutely great! Also Daisy, you are such a tease! Where are you going, where are you going, Where are you going, where are you going, Where are you going, where are you going, Where are you going, where are you going, Where are you going, where are you going, Where are you going, where are you going 🤣
6:03 You say "eat and cycle" like that's a potential bad thing 🤣living the dream for sure, isn't that what a vacation is for? Thanks for showing off your vacation with us
I had a huge anorak (still UK slang?) moment when they rode past the USS Intrepid and you could see an F-14 on its flight deck, a flat top design pioneered by the UK and adopted by the US. But that's my riding style; bike to history and geek out on it. Cool series indeed, and a huge congratulations to you and Daisy, Francis. I just had an awful night, full of manky baby squeaks, squeals and demands for bottles. Oh the joys that await you!
Loving the NYC videos, was there myself last week cycling around Central Park, and saw you in the check in queue at JFK yesterday for the Gatwick flight. Didn’t want to disturb you though. Great content and congrats 👍
nice to see another city and how different it feels to London as a rider....been there as a tourist a few times many years ago ..still had cars in central park as I recall..
Love the New York City series. So happy after they added so many protected bike lanes. Come out to the west coast. We have beautiful weather year round.
If you guys enjoyed Central Park, you'll like Forest Park in St. Louis. Not sure why you'd have a reason to come out this way, but we're a pretty bikey town 😁
Nice to see you guys riding and spending time together again. I just flew back from Europe and I’m already planning a trip to Portugal/Spain lands exclusively to ride, thanks to your Spain trip 😅
Lovely coverage. 👍🏻☺️ Yes, there are predawn crits in CP, then many cycling clubs/teams do training rides starting at 6:00 a.m. or so. After that, the CP loop is just too full, you must go with the flow.
Awesome video! I’m setting off on a ride around Australia next Friday. You should come and join some of the leg. Your one of the inspirations for my cycling trip
Loved this series / as mentioned in a prior post, I had major FOMO knowing you both were cycling nearby on all of these roads and streets I’ve spent so much time on 😂
Great fun seeing your New York adventures. Thank you for the videos. Oh, and at 0:30 I think the super sized drink is a "Big Gulp" if you got it from 7-Eleven. Big Slurp sounds like a rip-off product that they would sell at the Kwik-E-Mart on The Simpsons. 😆 Safe journey home!
Those steel plates get vey slippery in the rain, seems to be a lot in New York. Wellington N.Z had a few but I haven't lived there for 8 years. Enjoy your squiggling.
I'm so honored (that's the correct American spelling) that you've made these videos. You've done a wonderful job capturing this strange and wonderful city. It's chaotic and smelly and lawless, and I love it despite all that. The smell you smelled on the Hudson River Greenway is a compost site. Right next to it is a heliport which is, in my view, a taxi stand for billionaires. The exhaust from the helicopters is far more toxic, and some people are advocating for getting rid of helicopters entirely. Thank you so much. It would have been easy to do a bad job of this, and you've done great. But did you really find the climbs to be hard? I've cycled in England and had hugely challenging climbs there. By comparison, NYC is nearly flat.
Everything’s bigger… wait till you go to Texas! Are you running your JuinTechs for your NYC trip? How did it perform? I am still worried to run mine in the city.
@@Cade_Media time to retire this excuse with my riding buddies then 😆 I do agree they lock up very well I love the instant stop I’ve been seeing on my bike stand.
No, we do that in the Philippines too. Covering potholes and other dangerous and distasteful road damage with slabs of metal that is.
Actually, that's not what the metal plates are for in NYC. The metal plates w/ asphalt around them are temporary covers for road service work that occurs over long periods. Telephone, fiber, water, electrical and sewer work often takes several days to months depending on the extent of the work and in many cases, there are delays or breaks in the work, during which, the road is made usable with the metal sheets.
Potholes, on the other hand, are filled with asphalt between road repavings.
Loved this series! Daisy needs to be in more videos (or have her own channel) her humour takes things to another level.
Something tells me she'll be on this channel a lot.
"You have to smell the coffee before you drink it"
Daisy "Yep, that smells like coffee"
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:D
Thank you for visiting RUBBER N’ ROAD Francis! It was great to meet you and Daisy in person.
- Gil & Max
Great to meet you guys, hope we cross paths again! ✌️
in the past, i searched RUclips for cycling in Death Valley and Francis Cade's "Project USA" series showed up in the results; i watched the entire series because i live in California and wanted to see some familiar sites; have been a subscriber since then - enjoy your videos.
It’s been great seeing both of you ride through parts of NYC that I’ve ridden my whole life. Hope you guys are enjoying your Holiday here!
If you haven't already, checkout the Brooklyn Greenway and the Manhattan Waterfront Greenway. The Brooklyn Greenway is 26 miles and leads from Greenpoint all the way down to Howard Beach, connecting a lot of the parks in Brooklyn on the East River and the Lower Bay. The Manhattan Waterfront Greenway is 31 miles and is a bike loop around the entire island of Manhattan. Both have websites and maps showing you the type of bike paths used and where there's construction on your ride.
Love the videos! Hope to catch you riding around the city sometime soon!
In New Orleans where I live they wait until the potholes start damaging cars, then they add cones or construction barrels. Once several cones have been flattened, they might fill it with gravel or rocks. After a couple years, the gravel should be compacted enough to add asphalt, but they usually just do another cone. When the pothole has reached the age of maturity (3 or 4) it gets patched with asphalt that will break and sink in a couple months. People literally have birthday parties and put up signs for potholes. There was one that even got to the point of having a 7ft tall tree in it and it turned an intersection into a traffic circle by accident. So I’d take metal plates all day.
Loved having you and Daisy here. You both showed me why they rate NYC one of the best cities for bicycles. Hope you haven't lost your hearing because of all the sirens. Thanks for taking us along. Safe travels back home! Cheers!
The metal covers are temporary. Usually placed to cover construction that will need access again soon. Once all the work is done it will be filled in and patched properly.
This has been a great series so far Francis. Thx for the show.
Ride on!
the 'metal sheet' solution is quite normal in Rio as well. they even glue the ends in with a little asphalt and never bother to actually fix it for months on end!
I've done the Five Boro Bike Tour many times during which the Central Park one-way-only rules are suspended to allow all 32,000 riders to travel north into the Bronx.
Congrats to Francis and future Mrs Daisy Cade!!!!!
Road plates are a thing here in Australia. Usually it's for longer term work that can't be blocked off to traffic for 24 hours a day, so it's plated while no work is happening.
Another great series, Francis - absolutely love what you do 👌
Awesome vid and series. But those metal plates are temporary covers for when people come at night and work on it! They work during the night and then cover it up again in the morning.
Lived in Manhattan for a summer years ago and what impressed me was the amount of change and time stops while everything changes around you…. Nice city ridding it was the best, and great work.. thanks
Loved seeing your view of our city. Not sure if you tried it but across the GW (George Washington Bridge), up Rt. 9...all the way to (up?) Bear Mountain is a great ride.
Metal plates are often in place when they're doing subsurface utility work that they're not just finished with yet.
In Minnesota there was a time where some parts of a bike and pedestrian trail were covered in metal slabs like that. Eventually they were taken off but there was still massive cracks that are basically just holes so I'm guessing someone binned it riding over one and they were just removed and forgotten instead of being rushed to fix it.
These videos of NYC are SOOOOOOOO cool! But, Daisey is the coolest.
I have been looking at the West cycle path on google maps, thanks for showing. It looks absolutely great!
Also Daisy, you are such a tease!
Where are you going, where are you going, Where are you going, where are you going, Where are you going, where are you going, Where are you going, where are you going, Where are you going, where are you going, Where are you going, where are you going 🤣
actually saw you on the bridge yesterday! thought i was crazy
Lived in NYC my entire life. So glad you enjoyed your visit and had a safe ride. Cheers!
6:03 You say "eat and cycle" like that's a potential bad thing 🤣living the dream for sure, isn't that what a vacation is for?
Thanks for showing off your vacation with us
I had a huge anorak (still UK slang?) moment when they rode past the USS Intrepid and you could see an F-14 on its flight deck, a flat top design pioneered by the UK and adopted by the US. But that's my riding style; bike to history and geek out on it. Cool series indeed, and a huge congratulations to you and Daisy, Francis. I just had an awful night, full of manky baby squeaks, squeals and demands for bottles. Oh the joys that await you!
Loving the NYC videos, was there myself last week cycling around Central Park, and saw you in the check in queue at JFK yesterday for the Gatwick flight. Didn’t want to disturb you though. Great content and congrats 👍
Great trip & vlog series Francis & Daisy. Thank you! Safe trip home back to the Toon!
You need a trip to Washington, DC! Lots of trails in and just outside the city! Plenty to see and eat!
nice to see another city and how different it feels to London as a rider....been there as a tourist a few times many years ago ..still had cars in central park as I recall..
The constant noise is my biggest NYC memory. Our hotel room was on the 30ish floor. All night was just sirens and horns.
Love the New York City series. So happy after they added so many protected bike lanes. Come out to the west coast. We have beautiful weather year round.
If you guys enjoyed Central Park, you'll like Forest Park in St. Louis. Not sure why you'd have a reason to come out this way, but we're a pretty bikey town 😁
Nice to see you guys riding and spending time together again.
I just flew back from Europe and I’m already planning a trip to Portugal/Spain lands exclusively to ride, thanks to your Spain trip 😅
Lovely coverage. 👍🏻☺️ Yes, there are predawn crits in CP, then many cycling clubs/teams do training rides starting at 6:00 a.m. or so. After that, the CP loop is just too full, you must go with the flow.
You have to do the loop! Also, on the North end there is a nice mini-loop for intervals.
Excellent! Fun to see videos of where I ride from visitors.
Metals on roads are here in the Philippines too. Especially on the so called “bike lanes”. Haha
I rode Central Park and down the west side Hudson River trail Last week! A bike in NYC is a must! 🤙🚴♂️
Ah man... this series makes me want to take a bike to NYC next time I head out.....
Thanks for sharing your NYC adventure, it's been fun.
Awesome video! I’m setting off on a ride around Australia next Friday. You should come and join some of the leg. Your one of the inspirations for my cycling trip
The West Side Highway is great. Just crazy around Little Island. Best part of cycling in Manhttan imo
I am loving this series in NY. Thank you.
They put metal platforms too on potholes in the Philippines.
thanks for taking us along
Can't believe we still haven't seen an appearance from a GT85 spray can this trip
Loved this series / as mentioned in a prior post, I had major FOMO knowing you both were cycling nearby on all of these roads and streets I’ve spent so much time on 😂
4:58 that is always the case in the Philippines
Glad you came and had fun as for the smell that's low tied
Great fun seeing your New York adventures. Thank you for the videos. Oh, and at 0:30 I think the super sized drink is a "Big Gulp" if you got it from 7-Eleven. Big Slurp sounds like a rip-off product that they would sell at the Kwik-E-Mart on The Simpsons. 😆 Safe journey home!
Thanks Francis , and Daisy ! Safe travels home !
Those steel plates get vey slippery in the rain, seems to be a lot in New York. Wellington N.Z had a few but I haven't lived there for 8 years. Enjoy your squiggling.
Haha, I bike past that smelly place too. Probably the parks dept. storing fertilizer. Glad you're enjoying the city (as we tri-staters call it).
Great series from New York.
Omg the glasses are COOOOOOOOL!
Daisy has such a great personality and fun factor! Her expressions are the best 😀
All the love for Daisy here, yet none for Francis? For shame! Well I think you’re gorgeous too Francis! 😍
Really enjoyed these. Hope you have enjoyed your time as much.
Thanks so much for watching them!
Did you cycle past an aircraft carrier at 5.23….. NY City does have everything!
do you use the fidlocks with the flip cap lids to keep street crud off your nozzle? NYC in the wet must be a good place to do that
The street is under construction. Could be a water main. Its not a pothole remedy. Paulie Gee's Pizza before you go or Di Fara's.
I'm so honored (that's the correct American spelling) that you've made these videos. You've done a wonderful job capturing this strange and wonderful city. It's chaotic and smelly and lawless, and I love it despite all that. The smell you smelled on the Hudson River Greenway is a compost site. Right next to it is a heliport which is, in my view, a taxi stand for billionaires. The exhaust from the helicopters is far more toxic, and some people are advocating for getting rid of helicopters entirely. Thank you so much. It would have been easy to do a bad job of this, and you've done great. But did you really find the climbs to be hard? I've cycled in England and had hugely challenging climbs there. By comparison, NYC is nearly flat.
OMG, Daisy Spoilers. 🤣🤣👍🏾👍🏾😁😁
Next time you have to come to Guatemala 🇬🇹 get some coffee harvest in volcanoes (37 actually).
Sorry, I missed you while I was visiting NY, would have loved to have joined you on a ride.
Coffee imported from all the way from Germany I see.
Btw The Barn mark great coffee
The place that you were riding through that smelled like poop is the Hudson River Park Community Compost Yard
Everyone on the Terry B stream was saying y'all need to connect! 🤞
I thought the same. Would have been epic.
Big Gulp. A 7-11 Original, remember the bike race team sponsor from the 1980s. Cheers.
The "giant Spiderman" call out... haha.
today is the day I discover this channel and I am a happy woman.
That metal sheet looks fun in the wet
Lethal
It’s fine just smash the front brake nothing will happen.
Props to Daisy for putting up with a boyfriend filming and riding around NYC. That's not for the average couple 😎😎😎😎😎😎
Love Daisy on the vlog
Hi Francis,
Could you do a video on traveling with your bike abroad? How did they get in New York? Or did you make one already? Thanks!
We flew with them in boxes!
Hol up you just rode past a massive aircraft carrier damn!
Living the dream, it's all about it.
Thanks!
loved the socks of Daisy, 🤩 where did she get them?
First time I have ever been first to like a video. I feel special.
Great program from you both.
What about a NYC night bike ride?
If you find yourself in Tucson I'll take you for a ride 80miles with only two stop signs.
I would say the CP races are more circuit like. We have the crits in the streets 😉
The gray squirrel would like a bit of whatever you have to eat.
Fizzy worms
NYC is the Dream, if you know how to Dream it....😎🤙
Is that Scott Addict that your riding? Just curious.
How does the actual Central Park route compare to the Zwift NYC route?
It’s real.
Was that you doing laps in Prospect Park this morning?
Yeah!
I would love to make this trip, take a nice long ride then grab a ferry back to the hotel.
I'm guessing Badlands 🤔
hard to beat a slurpee on a hot day, cola the flavor of choice.
Everything’s bigger… wait till you go to Texas!
Are you running your JuinTechs for your NYC trip? How did it perform? I am still worried to run mine in the city.
Yep still on the juintechs. They are spongey with the internal cable routing but you can lock up the wheels still.
@@Cade_Media time to retire this excuse with my riding buddies then 😆 I do agree they lock up very well I love the instant stop I’ve been seeing on my bike stand.
LOL that one part of the west side highway truly smells horrid.
A smell I have never encountered before
SECRET SQUIRREL TRIP!! whereyagoin?whereyagoin?whereyagoin?whereyagoin?whereyagoin???
Have enjoyed watching so Much ‼️ How is New York Pizza ❓ How does it compare to other parts of the world ❓
Very good and very big - we've tried a few different places and all of them have been excellent
I had the lap record of 11:51. Back in 2001, right before the state TT champs. Nearly got taken out by a family of raccoons!
I think you accidentally cut the video before Daisy said where you were going.
Meanwhile Francis rides by an aircraft carrier. 🤣
what sunglasses are you and daisy wearing ?
Sungod Airas and Vulcans 👍
@@Cade_Media sick thanks ! they are dope
New York is awesome