15 Rules For Riding A Bike In New York City

Biking in the city comes with a lot of benefits: It's healthy, convenient, gets you outside, and reduces carbon emissions in the atmosphere. Some of the best biking weather New Yorkers will see all year its now arriving: cool and breezy, with limited humidity.

Biking around New York is a great idea until you start thinking about all the folks out there with as much experience biking as flying a space shuttle picking up a bike and tooling around New York City.

So if you are thinking about getting on a bike in NYC, whether on your own wheels or on shared ones - such as a Citi Bike - here are 15 rules to keep you (and those around you) safe, legal, and from drawing the ire of New Yorkers.

[This post has been updated from its original version.]