Ramjm_2000

Fellow BFers,

I'll be heading to a conference next week in downtown Albuquerque, does anyone have a link to a good site related to decent (and safe) ridding routes around the down town area? Personal fav route recommendations welcome. Thanks in advance.

JR

asgelle

https://www.swcp.com/~nmts/
Depending on how far you want to ride and whether you can drive to the ride start, there are many options. The easiest from Downtown is to ride the Bosque Trail bike path or head West to the edge of town and then North. The best rides are East of the city, but that means longer rides or driving to the start.

permanentjaun

I'd say just get on 40 east of the city and ride out into the vastness for a while. There's a campground a little bit outside the city on one side of the highway and then on the other side is a diner with a strip joint attached to it. Don't ask me how I know that.

gruffydd

I ride the Bosque Trail when I am in ABQ. There are lots of good rides. The link above will help you. So will the local bike shops.

Ramjm_2000

Thanks for the intel. I'll definately check out the Bosque trail and the link.

Ramjm_2000

OK so I checked out the Bosque trail, looks like a MUP. Based on my experiences when living in DC, MUPs are generally pretty crowded and limit your speed. How's this one compare?

logdrum

What's your poison, hills, flats/TT, rollers, mountain climbs or looking at low-cut jeans and exposed thongs?

EDIT: Noticed you said the downtwon area only and safe. No not much in the downtown area per se... but get to the neighborhoods, east of downtown south of Central (take Gold Street) or North of it, but do not get past SE Washington if you are going east cause the neighborhoods past there will not be as safe. From downtown you can head towards the zoo and that will be the Country Club area. Tingley Ave goes south but do not go past Bridge (Cesar Chavez now) street. Go south of Central going towards the zoo but not on Central itself because there are some unsafe places -- relatively speaking. You get to the MUP (Bosque trail system) if you go through this Country Club area. If you want some climbs, crossing the river are neighborhoods on the mesa and you can get some climbing in there.
If you take Atrisco right of Central, there will be some shot climbs up the mesa. All of these just within downtown.

I should have read your OP first.

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For hills go on the east side and if you are feeling strong climb the Sandia Crest.

My friend showed me his Garmin Data for lunch 17.6 mph average on the Bosque trail (I do not know if he maimed kids on the way). For an average that is not slow. If you get that all the way North to Alameda. Take Alameda east then 4th street North. You have a choice to go north to Bernalillo for some TT type riding 7 miles, back and out and you have your 20K or so TT run. No traffic lights ample shoulders through the Sandia reservation. or go east on Tramway and a 1K climb for 4.5 miles. Before tramway heads south, you can climb the mini-Ventoux to the the La Luz trail head. 1K+ in just over a mile. Tramway Blvd at this point has a MUP along it (and a lot more attractive sport oriented people), but it also has wide shoulders, wide as in some places cops triple park on the shoulder. There are lights though. east of Tramway are a lot of finger hill climbs, to the tram itself and the various neighborhoods and parks by the foothills. I think someone devised a ride to get 4K of total climbing out of these finger routes. Tramway ends meeting Central. The Smith's grocery store is a popular meeting point for all the east mountain rides. You can go along route 66 and 1-40 east and as I have mentioned above -- all the hill rides from Tijeras are there.

The west side has other rides as well and my town of Corrales can be reached through the MUP at Alameda and we have only 2 main roads, one is bike laned road and a village road, no lights 30 mph and a16 mile loop between these two roads with an option to get some hill climbs to Rio Rancho.

If you TT, I think there are still TT races on the far west side of town (Double Eagle airport). USCF sanctiuoned Crits are in the Balloon Fiesta Park. Cyclocross is big here - ask the Bike Coop on Central (Nob hill ) area for info.

If Albuqerque is too much of a cow-town for you, there is always Santa Fe and they have great rides there as well . But it is about 60 miles away.

Low cut jeans, UNM university area. Fixies there. Bike Coop is the nearest road friendly LBS from Downtown. Just past UNM area next to the GUILD theater.

Trogon

Ride south from Central on the Bosque trail and you will see next to no one. South of Tingley Park, you will see no one at all.

North of Central, there are people, but the great thing about ABQ MUTs is that they are severely under-used. Especially in the evening and during the week.

I ride that stretch every Sat and Sun, and I can generally count the number of people I see on two hands.

ABQ MUT riding is nothing like it is in any other major city.

Trogon

Corrales?

Me 2.

logdrum

Yup right on Corrales Rd! Just found out that Corrales Rd to 528 Iris to Idalia is a good morning calorie burner if you don't have much time. Plus the downhill down Idalia can get as fast as 40 or more. 2 high end CF bikes on sale from this village on CL a couple of weeks ago. I figured a lot of serious roadies around here. Too much horse stuff etc, I rarely do group rides anymore. PM me or just stop by the house with spool fence on the north part of town.

Ramjm_2000

Thanks for the extra info. I don't know my schedule yet, I'd imagine it's either going to be early moring rides or late afternoon. If it's anything like OK right now early morning it is.

abqhudson

The Bosque trail is very quiet during the week - especially - South of Central. Very few people either way. It is busier on the weekends. A great place to ride. I try to ride there M-F.

acortez

+1

Chuckie

https://www.cabq.gov/bike/

This is the City's bike web page. Click on the downloadable bike trail map, and you'll see how to get around the city on our many bike paths, trails, and lanes.

I take the bosque path every day when I commute from the west side to the Air Force base. It's an awesome ride.

Another great ride from downtown is to climb up into the far NE part of the city and get on Tramway (the trail that goes up Comanche is a good one). Take Tramway north, and pick a couple of roads to turn right on and head up into the foothills for some short out-and-backs. The road up to the Elena Gallegos trailhead is a good one, as is the one up to the Sandia Peak Tramway (must do!) and the very difficult Juan Tabo picnic grounds road. After all of this, keep going on Tramway until it bends around to the west and descend into the north valley. Tramway will turn into 2nd Street and bend back to the south. Once you get to Alameda, go west to the bosque bike path trailhead right before the Rio Grande and head south back to downtown! Should be about a 40-miler or so, depending on your route.