Originally Posted by
canyoneagle
Nice! Congrats, and welcome.
If you haven't already discovered it, you can use Google Maps
www.maps.google.com to optimize your route for bike compatability.
Once you specify your start and finish points, you can click on the little "by bicycle" box and
it will find the most bike friendly route. You can zoom in and tweak it as you see fit. The optimized route might add some distance, but it is amazing to see how much more bikeable some routes may be with a simple adjustment of a few blocks.
I haven't found that to be necessarily true, but it's a good starting place. What I really love is when google maps routes me down a "path" that is really a set of stairs. Start with google's suggestion, but definitely check it out a bit on street view and in person. Yes, you will find a good route, and hopefully more than one.