CENTRAL PARK BIKE TOURS BRINGS YOUR BIKE TO YOU

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CENTRAL PARK BIKE TOURS BRINGS YOUR BIKE TO YOU

NEW YORK, N.Y.: September 21, 2010 - Central Park Bike Tours takes the trouble out of renting a bike in New York City. This company, one of the pioneers of New York City bicycle-tours and rentals, will deliver its bikes to customers at Manhattan hotels – and pick them up again at the end of the day.

“When we started in 1994, we were pretty much the only bicycle-tour and rental company in the Central Park area, “ says Tom Ahern, owner of Central Park Bike Tours (www.centralparkbiketours.com). “And our philosophy has remained the same since then. We don’t care about being the biggest. We’re only interested in nurturing our reputation for innovative customer-service.”

For its “VIP” renters, many of whom come from out of town, the company takes all the hassle out of taking a bus or cab – or walking – to its store off Central Park. It cuts down on time, and it cuts down on cost. And customers can start pedaling the minute they walk outside their hotel.

In addition to rentals, Central Park Bike Tours is also one of the city’s leading bicycle-tour companies, leading guided tours into nooks and crannies and special places in Central Park that even some New Yorkers don’t know about. Customers pedal past beautiful meadows and old bridges and rarefied museums and horse-drawn carriages, and landmarks such as Strawberry Fields, the John Lennon International Peace Garden, the Wollman Skating Rink, and the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir. In addition, the company also offers tours of special neighborhoods such as Harlem, Brooklyn, Times Square, and Little Italy.

Central Park Bike Tours was originally discovered by “New York” magazine in the mid-90’s, resulting in a new wave of business. Shortly afterward, foreign tourists discovered the company. It’s still one of the few New York bike companies with an actual store.

“If you Googled ‘bicycle tours in Central Park’ in 2005, we were the only ones that came up,” says Ahern. “Now, there’s plenty of competition. But we’re still growing at the rate of 40% a year – so we must be doing something right. And we’d like to think it’s our customer-service.”

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