SATURDAY MORNING UPDATE: The ride is on. The forecast has significantly improved. See everyone at City Hall by 9:30.

FRIDAY MORNING UPDATE: Once again the weather gods are playing with us. The forecast for Saturday is not good, but it is possible we could get the ride, or a shortened version of the ride, in before the rain arrives. As of now (Friday morning), the ride is still on. Please check back on Saturday morning around 8:00 AM for possible updates. We will be checking forecasts and radar and will adjust accordingly.

Time for our classic spring ride - empanadas. Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens - we meander from the industrial to the bucolic, from the commercial to the high-end and not-so-high-end residential, plus some cemeteries (it's Queens, after all), a ride by the velodrome and empanadas in Corona for a late lunch. Ride will end at Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn, but riders will have options to head to Manhattan via the 59th Street, Williamsburg or Manhattan Bridge.