.zhelfand meets two men who unknowingly competed to visit all 1,600 (and counting) Citi Bike stations.
Six thousand people or so have summited Everest, but how many have visited all sixteen hundred Citi Bike stations? Last year, Scott Ambinder, an H.R. consultant, set out to become the first. Citi Bike had recently introduced a map denoting which docks a user had and had not visited: an invitation, basically, for the George Mallorys of socialized self-propulsion. Partway through his quest, he heard distressing news.
Sufficiently begoggled, the two pedalled and chatted. Ambinder said he’d ventured out to satisfy some vague exploratory notion. Finkelstein had done it to piss off a friend. “Michael Graves,” he said. “I really don’t understand it, but he truly hated it with a passion whenever I mentioned Citi Bike. His main thing was, you should just own a bike.” Completing the entire circuit, he realized, would be a trolling“I was single at the time,” he explained.
Ambinder, having already lost the race, sought a kind of purity. No subways, no e-bikes. “I wanted to be as authentic with it as possible,” he said. He compromised once, taking theto Jersey City and Hoboken, but that felt earned, since he’d once biked over the G.W., down into Hoboken, and back, just for fun.
The pair pulled into a station in Battery Park City. A bar was nearby: onion rings, French fries, beers. Finkelstein had an idea. He pulled out his phone. “Graves!” he said, into the receiver. “I’m here with Scott, the other guy who’s biked every Citi Bike station.”
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