Sheikh Zayed Road turns into giant cycling track for Dubai Ride

Gulf Today, Staff Reporter

For a few brief hours on Sunday, Dubai’s skyscraper-lined superhighway that cuts through the center of Dubai emptied of the cars always clogging it to give way to tens of thousands of bicyclists.

The annual Dubai Ride saw bikes race down Sheikh Zayed Road, a 10-lane asphalt jungle that gives drivers a view of the world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa, and other sites such as the Museum of the Future.

The annual Dubai Ride saw thousands of bikes race down Sheikh Zayed Road. This year’s ride began before sunrise in Dubai.

Cyclists ride past the Museum of the Future in Dubai.

As dawn broke, bicyclists posed for photographs along the highway and cheered as they zipped along.

A resident Maria Guillerma Imboy said Dubai Ride is the largest cycling event she’s taken part in so far in the UAE.

"We’ve always done this biking routine where we go to Burj Khalifa, Burj Al Arab, but this is my first time going in this kind of festive Dubai Ride, this is the biggest that I joined, the biggest so far.”

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